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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • it just didn’t get as hot there because of the rainy weather

    When the day starts, it will be very hot til around 12:00-13:00. between 14:00-16:00 when water vapor accumulates, it will rain heavily. But it happens randomly and regardless of the season as used to be.

    As far as I can tell, this has happened in the last two or three years, I don’t know what season it is. And it gets worse, since this January there has been no rainy season or summer.

    May I ask where you are? Is it a monsoon climate?

    I live in SEA, around May-August it should be summer. November-March is the monsoon.








  • is there any benefit? unless you are the target of spy agencies. but I don’t think it’s worth it.

    stay away from mainstream social media, better yet use custom ROMs and don’t install gapps. use system-wide adblockers or change your DNS in addition to ISP DNS.

    remember, government agencies can always buy your data from data brokers.

    if possible, don’t use M$ Windows, it sends telemetry to M$ server.

    for example I use Linux as my daily driver, and I still use dnscrypt-proxy to avoid government censorship





















  • My laptop did not go to sleep

    Some people have similar experiences regarding sleep issue, including system just went blank on wake up.

    From my experiences on Linux Mint in two different laptops, the sleep issue related to Linux system cache. By default, many Linuxes use these settings, vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio are about 5 to 20 percent of the available system memory. This is fine if your system has less than 4GB of memory installed, but if your system has 8GB or more of memory, this can cause problems later on.

    So I have this “can’t wake up” issue on my two differents laptop, the first laptop has 8 GB of memory and the second laptop has 16 GB. And both laptops are running on Linux Mint.

    In search of a solution, I came across this conversation https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/25/39

    I also found some possible system cache related issues on various distros.

    So I tried what Linus suggested, and I use lower values than suggested. And it worked!, the “can’t wake up” issue on both laptops just gone in instant!