Is it not easy to play Jellyfin on Manjaro? Actually, it’s not. When installing via AUR, I couldn’t connect to GitHub, and that had me worried, no, it had me holding my breath. But that was relatively easy to resolve. After installation, there were three hurdles to overcome, luckily not as dif...

There are numerous movies stored on the hard drive at home, but without a suitable player, it’s as good as useless. The user-friendly infuse player for iOS comes at a high price, and the popular Kodi among enthusiasts is not available on the Apple Store. The only way out is sideloading—installing...

Modern e-commerce activities have absorbed almost all possible capitalist features. These features include meticulous accounting systems, such as pricing products down to the hundredth of a decimal point, with some promotional prices barely discounting less than one Chinese yuan; also included ar...

The last time I picked up the pen was on October 29th, and before I knew it, a whole month of January has already passed. My companion for three years, the Xiaomi MIX 3, slipped out of my old high school uniform that I hadn’t worn in a long time one careless morning, and crashed heavily onto t...

Whenever I open my precious MateBook on the desk, horizontal and vertical stripes start frolicking playfully on the Windows desktop. Adjusting the opening angle is like a camel finding its balance point, restoring to its original state. Initially, I had no intention of replacing the screen for...

Out of some cleanliness considerations or perhaps due to some self-imposed limitations based on admiration for foreign things, I always prefer original, authentic, and factory-made products. The same goes for email. In the past, when using an Android phone to send and receive emails, I always pre...

Mid-autumn evening, sharing a mooncake with two people; dining together, sharing a lobster among four people; sitting in Starbucks, sharing a cigarette with a room full of people. Most of the time, scarcity is the ultimate reason for sharing. It is almost instinctual for humans that when I have s...

“It’s nuts. I lost my phone.” “Where did you lose it?” “I left it on the shelf in the restroom.” “Why don’t you ask the mall staff?” “I…I don’t know where to find them, and I’m using the Starbucks Wi-Fi on my iPad right now, so I can’t go too far.” “Try using ‘Find My iPhone’.” I’ve lost ...

I have been running Raspberry OS + Aria2 on my Raspberry Pi 4B as a download machine. Unexpectedly, the greatest enemy of electronic products is Mom. During an urgent air conditioning repair operation, my mom directly unplugged the power strip with the Raspberry Pi plugged in — causing damage to...