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Notices by clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 73

  1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 09:49:53 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • iona ๐Ÿ
    @iona Hotels in Hong Kong are surprisingly well worth the money. For the money you'd get a janky tent bed and cold water in Victoria, you get a four star hotel semi-central on Hong Kong Island (80-100 EUR).
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 09:49:53 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 09:37:20 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • iona ๐Ÿ
    @iona Are you from Iona? It's one of those places I've seen on an album cover and it seems absolutely gorgeous. :-)
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 09:37:20 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  3. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:24:15 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • iona ๐Ÿ
    @iona A one-week trip to Hong Kong becomes very compressed and selective, I would recommend anyone two weeks for their first visit, and I know some people who come for a two-week visit basically every year, to enjoy the food, beaches and shopping.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:24:15 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  4. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:21:30 EDT clacke clacke
    • you b you ๐Ÿ˜ง I'll b me
    @b Hardly filtering. It is in nobody's interest that one local telecom operator and one local public service would utterly fail to peer their networks.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:21:30 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  5. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:07:29 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • iona ๐Ÿ
    @iona HK is worth visiting for several reasons. #1 is food, #2 is just walking around in the world's overwhelmingly scyscraper-densest place and going up in some of them for the view, and then there are some stark contrasts between the ancient and the hypermodern to enjoy.

    For the cyberpunk experience, you can get some of it by just going to obscure warehouses and meet small businesses, and you can get some of it by going to the electronic markets in Sham Shui Po. But the real deal is Shenzhen. They have like 200+ makerspaces and markets where you can buy every component imaginable.

    While staying in Hong Kong, one can make visa-less day trips to Shenzhen.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:07:29 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  6. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:01:16 EDT clacke clacke
    • Loathing Summer Heating Season
    @beadsland Wow, I never expected there would be an advantage to Hong Kong's ridiculous practice of one AC per room.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:01:16 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  7. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:00:11 EDT clacke clacke
    #voteodin

    https://imgur.com/8CR5C2n https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1496830
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 08:00:11 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  8. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:28:28 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • iona ๐Ÿ
    • florian :flan_hacker:
    @iona @florian In most places I've worked, the radiator views are only all green when something has gone wrong with the monitoring.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:28:28 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  9. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:27:23 EDT clacke clacke
    Got to know another one of HK's cool industrial areas today, as dx.com wouldn't send me my 20 HKD cable by normal post, but instead used a courier that tried to deliver to me when I wasn't home. Next try I will try to see if I can just tell them to leave the parcel with the lobby guard.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:27:23 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  10. florian :flan_hacker: (florian@bsd.network)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:13:42 EDT florian :flan_hacker: florian :flan_hacker:

    Monitoring is the path to the dark side. Monitoring leads to alerts. Alerts lead to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:13:42 EDT from bsd.network permalink Repeated by clacke
  11. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:18:37 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • Joshua
    @dc7ia Ok, I'm posting this from my MacBook in Ubuntu now. In the shop it couldn't connect to my phone, on the bus it connected faster than I could type `tail -f /var/log/syslog`.

    I'm less worried about that ASUS now.

    (I discovered my money transfer hadn't gone through to my bank account yet, so I couldn't bring the computer home immediately.)
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:18:37 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  12. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:13:21 EDT clacke clacke
    • Joshua
    @dc7ia I've had issues before, so I'm always careful.

    In Sweden it's often easy to find an old model and that usually works. If you go to a chain store in HK, they clear their inventory every 6 months or so, so the computer is often newer than the latest Ubuntu.

    Back in 2010 I bought a really nice IdeaPad that Linux could only run at 1024x768. The kernel patch arrived in git on Christmas eve. Best Christmas gift that year. :-)
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:13:21 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  13. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:07:58 EDT clacke clacke
    I have two phones, one with CSL and one with CMHK.

    On CMHK I can always use the HKeTransport public transport route lookup service. On CSL I always get timeouts.

    Today I had a crazy idea and installed Orbot and routed HKeT through TOR. Instant response. Problem solved.


    Yes, you heard me right, I used TOR to improve my network performance.

    The internet is so broken.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 05:07:58 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  14. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 04:17:54 EDT clacke clacke
    Went on a new excursion for a laptop, this time armed with an Ubuntu 18.04 stick instead of a 16.04 one.

    The guy in the shop recognized me from four months back! I guess they don't get too many picky Linux people.

    Found an ASUS VivoBook that worked well on the first try. No hangs, no crashes, no disabled touchpad.

    It couldn't connect to my phone WiFi, but then my 2014 MacBook couldn't either (in Ubuntu), so I'm thinking it might be the messy radio environment. It could connect to the store WiFi.

    If there is a genuine problem I figure I'll just get a slim dongle that supports free drivers.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-May-2018 04:17:54 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
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