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That would be some shit if Japan stopped being rabies free because of human bites.

I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time… and google sucks

MSI has a Windows utility to control the fans as desired. I don’t think there’s a BIOS boot menu, but I will check.

EDIT:

Fan curves are apparently in “Hardware Monitor” because that makes sense. Blah. I still have to tweak more, or maybe Linux is just running hotter on my machine, but improvement has happened.

I didn’t realize my BIOS could have a boot menu pop up because the splash screen disappears instantly. Problem solved. Thank you!

I bout a new HDD and installed linux mint. Works fine except for two major things. Related to the post, I cannot get the bootloader to find windows 10 no matter what I do. I might try to swap the windows drive to sata slot 1 and see if that (a) still works for windows and (b) gets grub2 working. For now, I have to go into the BIOS and mess with the boot order there to switch.

The second problem, not related, is there doesn’t appear to be any fan control software that works for my MSI motherboard’s CPU fan (lmsensors doesn’t see any sensors related to it) so the fan constantly runs even when it’s fine in silent mode on windows with regard to temperature. I have trouble with certain sounds (and trouble hearing over background sounds in general) so this is actually more of a dealbreaker than the bootloader.

I don’t think I understand unless you’re expecting me to buy some router and network cards that natively support fiber to go from the modem (which is fiber in from the pole outside).

Japan currently doesn’t have this in the more normal sense. That Japan is still super high-tech is more of a PR move. I literally had to send a fax to get my current internet (though it is fiber-to-the-home).

Where Japan is innovating is in robots and also its crossovers with an aging population. Possibly also some space stuff.

But for an everyday person, I don’t really see anything that doesn’t already exist somewhere else. I was raised in the US and have been living in Japan most of the last 10 years.

I already have screws, bolts, and rods in me. I’d probably have thousands of staples and/or stitches. No healing means no scarring, so there may be some benefits in other ways.

We are getting more and more stuff, but they often have a really shit UX. We can do some stuff on PC since the “My Number” card system, but that also requires installing all kinds of software, only works in certain browsers, etc.

Typing from my Tokyo fiber-to-the-home connection now. They ran it off the pole, installed a little thing in my house, ran the fiber to the modem they make me rent, and it works like a charm.

We have trains out to hubs in the countrysides here as well. Generally, they only run hourly the in a lot of the countryside.

Eh, we separate a lot of our trash, but what actually gets recycled (and whether you consider incinerating waste to generate electricity as ‘recycling’) can be disappointing.

I live in Japan. My wife and I recently went to visit my family in the US and I hated every minute of the toilet situation.

• Prime because I already have Amazon Prime (my wife uses it; I rarely do – 4900 JPY annually).
• Magellan TV + Curiosity stream which I occasionally watch (which cost me a bit over 6000 JPY last year, so probably something like $45 a year in USD?)
• U-Next because my phone provider sends me codes for free usage. I never actually use it, though.

That’s it for us.

I’m finally buying a house and moving with my wife to rural northern Japan, so I can only assume that it will burn down, fall over, and sink into a swamp.

On a more serious note, the US political situation will probably get a lot worse before (and if) it gets better. It still does affect me since I still have to file taxes, still am restricted in investing overseas (thanks, lack of US recognition of Japanese retirement vehicles and punitive policies meant to prevent people investing in certain foreign investments (PFICs)). I still also have investments in the US, qualify for social security when I retire (assuming it still has any money to pay out in another 20ish years), and family living in the US, some of whom I would like to visit again before they pass.

That I wanted to throw people into internment camps

I did not remotely say that.

and that I think what Americans did to the Japanese was okay?

Which is closer to what I was asking.

You lead with the assumption that they are “Chinese ‘expats’”. I don’t even know what your quotes on expats are doing there. Your later response was listing names and stating “Well…who could have seen this coming.”. To me, that just reads as you saying that Americans with Chinese-sounding names can’t be trusted. If that is indeed your position, I think it’s an awful, racist one.

So it was OK to intern all Japanese-americans during WWII based on their heritage? Can I use this logic today to decide things? I don’t think so.

In some cases, there have been threats against family in those countries IIRC. How credible, etc. is not something I know.

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its new policy interpretation will not include proactively removing content related to neo-Nazis and far-right extremism. But Substack will continue to remove any material that includes “credible threats of physical harm

Not even removing nazi publications

Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.