Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan

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  • I have a USB-C hub with USB-A ports that plugs into my work PC. I had a hard time trying to find the opposite, though I haven’t looked in ages; it honestly has come up exactly once in the last few years when I needed to borrow my wife’s sd card reader (or dig my old laptop out of the closet and play the updates game).







  • farmgineer@nord.pubtoMemes@sopuli.xyzHaiku
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    17 days ago

    Japanese can only end in ‘a’, ‘i’, ‘u’, ‘e’, ‘o’, or ‘n’. Rhyming in Japanese is boring because it has so few possible endings that tons of stuff rhymes. Haiku, tanka, and other forms exist with syllable*, rhythm, and even thematic rules instead.

    IIRC, Anglo-Saxon poetry before the Norman conquest also wasn’t into rhyming.

    * it’s technically not syllables but close enough for this usage.




  • I added one other SDD to dual-boot linux, but it’s otherwise the same as when I built it in May 2020.

    I was looking at upgrading the video card before all the prices went to shit. I’d need to get a new mobo to really make it worth the effort. I’m not sure adding more memory would really do a lot.

    My previous computer was a laptop since I knew I’d be moving across the world and I got it in late 2014 or early 2015. It technically still works, though it just sits in a closet.

    I’m thinking I just want to buy a higher-end laptop next time and just use this machine as a server. If I can do some gaming and video editing on it, that’s really all I need that’s intensive. I’m also debating whether or not to live in Japan full time or see if I can get work authorization somewhere in the Schengen area and just live in Japan part time. Bit of a dream with jobs the way they are now, though.