They said you have to get out of the things that you are so used to, to realise you were already living in the privilege. I’ve been a long time user of @privex (my first VPS) and thinking of trying something new by other brands. Not that Privex is not competitive but I just want to know and experience more about the VPS industry. Reading through some reviews to find out people usually recommending Hetzner Cloud, Linode, and Vultr. Out of my expectation, the signing up process gave me tons of shit.

• Hetzner Cloud offer an unbeatable price and hosted in Germany, requires me to upload my passport for verification. Too sick of KYC requirement like this.




• Vultr while being my first choice due to their rather modern web UI and great reviews, just would not let my credit card pass and give no reasons for me to ‘troubleshoot’.




• Linode VPS was my last attempt and giving me least shit. Application is still undergoing verification, at least they didn’t block me out of no obvious reasons. Hopefully this one get through soon.
  
  

The whole process made me missing everything when I was signing up with Privex. Damn.

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Microsoft Edge might not be the most used default browser including me, but it’s speed is second to none. The design and looks is a lot more sleeker and clean compared to FF and Chrome. Or probably I just getting too used to the latter browsers.

Edge has the ability to open up EPUB and serves as e-reader which most browsers are not capable of. I personally find this very handy especially Windows doesn’t come with a native option. I had a pretty good experience using Edge and would have use it more if it has a more matured extension support from the dev.

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Paying an usual visit to StackOverflow on another normal day at work (can’t live without it to get my job done). Instantly I noticed the unusual visual appearance in the website UI. Did not pay much attention as it looks like a page rendered improperly, until I read the special popup message.

Ah it is the April Fool’s trick. The whole site with this 90’s theme applied pulls the far memories back, look so much alike with the social platform like Friendster before Facebook is a thing. Surprised to see a highly technical site like StackOverflow has this sense of humor too.

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Famously quoted by Joshua Corman(2015). Software including big stuff like operating system, framework, library and as small as it could go like simple tool, program, or script. All the software types mostly had some dependencies on external code which weren’t written by the very creator himself. Although a very capable coder can code a perfect program, but the environment it runs on, the underlying frame work it is using, could go wrong as more security holes can be found as time pass.

That’s why it is better to stay away from an abandoned software which receives zero maintenance and updates. That aged software might not cause the diarrhea right away, but it would at some point in future.

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出了社会工作，忽然发现自己有别的兴趣需要发展一下，又不是很确定是不是真正喜欢这个东西，最好的验证方式莫过于利用业余时间发展。这比把正职辞掉用最多的时间来培养兴趣更来得有效。原因是业余时间，人往往精力已经不如白日充沛。在这比较身心俱疲的状态下，要是真的发展出可以长时间坚持的下去的另一个兴趣，那往往就是真爱。这时候就可以考虑全职投入这一行了。如果在这之前还可以做出些成绩，那更是锦上添花。

近三十岁的迷途小羔羊留

Instead of quitting your day job, test your love against the newly found interest in spare time often is the best way to verify it. You keep the ability to pay the bills, and get to test your perseverance after a long day at day job. If you found you still enjoy doing it after both physically and mentally fucked, that’s probably the true love you should go after.

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I bought the Logitech Anywhere 2s mouse months ago for the overwhelming review and ultra-lasting battery life. Both are living up to my expectation but I always doubt the usefulness of their killer feature, Flow. Flow is the ability to share a same mouse and mouse cursor between 2 different system, so one mouse will be able to work simultaneously.

Today I found a need to transfer a file from my Windows PC to the MacBook, instead of going the usual cloud storage or other file sharing method. I’ve decided to set up the Flow and give it a try. Turned out it wouldn’t work because the PC is on LAN network and MacBook is on WiFi. Both have to be strictly on the same network wired or wireless.

It obviously not worth the effort switching my PC to WiFi and furthermore, it is only LAN enabled. Switching to different network on and off defeat the purpose of Flow, which is making the user life easier. The good thing is this mouse was never bought for this gimmicky feature, and this attempt to use it has just confirmed it.

That is still a great wireless mouse though.

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