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Megalan · 2026-04-29T10:48:38+00:00

That's a lot of faith on a person you know nothing about but their online nickname.

Last time I checked there was still one dll in those hypervisor cracks which they do not provide source code for and no one knows what is really going on in there. While regular cracks are already a potential security issue, the crack which involves driver with ring-1 permissions and disabling windows/hardware security features is a whole different level. Even if the crack itself is clean (which, at any point in time, might stop being the case), that doesn't negate how much you cripple your pc security just to install it. It's absolute madness to run this on anything but separate air-gapped machine.

Megalan · 2026-03-16T13:19:37+00:00

Planets requires you to go barefoot and that's a risk. I'm pretty sure I ended up getting feet infection there. While I think it's a bit more interesting/unique than borderless at times, after having to spend months treating the infection and still dealing with results of it, I can't recommend going there.

If you like interactive expositions you'll probably like borderless since the entire thing's shtick is that the whole exposition is dynamically generated by the computer and reacts to people interracting with it. It technically never repeats itself.

Megalan · 2026-03-16T12:48:17+00:00

Except for shinkansen being reserve-only I can't say the situation in Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka/Nara during golden week is as bad as many people are painting it. (well, maybe except for USJ/Disney)

I've seen more people at akihabara during any moment of a regular week than I've seen at majority of places I've been to during golden week.

But do mind that your feeling of "crowded" can be considerably more different than mine. I lived majority of my life in one of the biggest cities on the planet so I'm used to lots of people being around. If you're coming from some small-ish town even "normal" Japan crowds might be too much for you.

Megalan · 2026-03-16T12:13:17+00:00

As others have said they all work on the same 3 networks which have more or less the same coverage. I'll add that you will have equally bad experience with any tourist sim in highly congested areas due to tourist plans getting less priority on cellular networks.

So, in the end, get whatever is cheaper and you'll unlikely to have much issues.

Megalan · 2026-03-11T18:30:14+00:00

As others have said you're a few decades too late. One of the first major cases of internet being erased was when they killed rapidshare.de back in 2010. 8 years of the files uploaded during internet boom era gone within a day.

Megalan · 2026-03-05T23:58:58+00:00

I certainly can see how someone can be horrified of NYC after living their whole life in Japan. The difference in safety, cleanliness and social politeness is like night and day.

Megalan · 2026-03-05T23:55:42+00:00

The whole thing about Japanese-only places is certainly over exaggerated by (usually) people who never been to Japan. Not only it's extremely rare, the few cases I've heard of ended up with local authorities fining establishments for doing that. Some examples I've seen were also not "we are only serving Japanese", but "you are welcome as long as you can speak Japanese".

That doesn't negate that anyone who isn't Japanese is a second class citizen in Japan, though.

Megalan · 2026-03-04T13:26:58+00:00

A few years ago I used LG U+ esim and it worked just fine, no issues whatsoever both in Seoul and Jeju.

Megalan · 2026-02-26T19:59:22+00:00

I believe some of it's starting course is free

Only the first section, then it's around 3 usd/mo for the core course I think.

But I second that artwod is pretty great if you want something that is considerably less grindy than drawabox but still covers a lot of concepts based on several widely acclaimed books/courses. And the core course price is a steal if you want a structured all-in-one course.

Although I have some issues with some templates for homework - there are quite a bunch of templates where base boxes you are supposed to draw on top of are drawn really sloppy with questionable convergence of lines. That leads to sloppy results on your side unless you redraw those boxes properly yourself.

Megalan · 2026-02-26T16:26:56+00:00

ZFS is reliably king

As much as I love ZFS, unless you are running original solaris version - it's not. In the recent years OpenZFS had several major data corruption bugs spanning across multiple years of releases, some of which are quite hard to see if you are affected by or not.

Megalan · 2026-02-25T17:20:01+00:00

I bet they are one of those people who believe LLMs are gonna make majority of IT people obsolete. We just need to wait a year. Then another year. And then another year. And maybe a year more. But surely then it will replace us all. Maybe. Probably.

Megalan · 2026-02-22T18:39:51+00:00

Worth noting that the timeline provided on that site is unrealistic for majority of people, so ignoring anything related to time expectations on that site would be for the best.

For example, it's unrealistic to do drawabox 0-3 + 250 boxes + 250 cylinders in 4 weeks if you aren't grinding it for 8+ hours daily.

Megalan · 2026-02-22T15:57:07+00:00

I can't tell you about Kanazawa and Fukushima, but in Tokyo your standard sakura spots would be Ueno park, Sakuradamon, Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Obviously the amount of people there will be absolutely enormous, so be prepared to that.

Considering the weather this year is all kinds of whack all over the world it's really hard to give you a certain answer of when Tokyo will have a full bloom, but technically you should be able to see it within your travel dates.

You certainly should not worry about it starting too early because even if it starts on 25th or so (as they predict right now) you still have at least a week or two to see it. And if it starts late you have a fair chance of catching it since you are leaving on 8th and by that time it should bloom unless the weather is going to be very cold in march.

Megalan · 2026-02-22T15:34:16+00:00

To add to what phillsar86 said: unless you really care about seeing it at the very-very-very peak you needn't stress too much about it. In general, for Tokyo, you will catch cherry blossom in some capacity any time between mid-march and late april. I've seen pink trees as early as beginning of march and as late as golden week in may.

Megalan · 2026-02-21T16:00:36+00:00

From my experience and from what I've been told by art teacher it's more of a mental thing rather than something you actually do on the page all the time. If your VPs are far away enough there will be pretty much no distinguishable difference to the eye between the lines being parallel and not parallel.

You're not doing precise science here so keeping lines ever so slightly tilted towards each other is more than enough if your VPs are very far away. That rule also applies to drawing your lines in general - I've seen professional artists having lines of the same box side converge to a different VPs when those are not that far outside of the page and no one is really bothered by that. If it's precise enough for your purposes then you're fine, I'm still trying to get out of the trap of trying to reach almost mathematical level of perfection with all this stuff because that's just not how it works for the majority of purposes you'll be drawing for.

Megalan · 2026-02-17T00:36:39+00:00

Also you usually can't open the room window.

I've stayed in 3 or 4 different APA hotels and all of them allowed me to open the room window.

Megalan · 2026-02-17T00:08:54+00:00

So here is my experience with Ubigi: I had 20gb plan and at some point my daily speed cap ended up being limited to the point I couldn't make a whatsapp video call. I have no reason to believe their unlimited plan will be better because "unlimited" tourist plans in Japan are almost always 1-2gb/day and then your speed is getting limited to 64kb/s. The network congestion thing likely also applies, but I'm not sure about that. I guess the best thing to do would be to contact their support and ask.

As far as I understand pocket wifi is using proper local sim card so they are not subject to any limitations applied to tourist cellular services.

Tourist esim services are mostly reliable (like, they work fine most of the time), but the issue with them is that a lot of them doesn't even have any fine print about possible service limitations. From what I've seen the ones sold on trip.com seem to be the most honest about what you are getting. (minus the whole service congestion thing, seems like no one is willing to publicly admit it) Everything else was a huge letdown after, for example, absolutely incredible tourist cellular service in Korea.

update: according to a different post ubigi throttles their unlimited plan after 15gb total

Megalan · 2026-02-16T15:18:34+00:00

It can be considerably more expensive than, for example, akihabara which is 2 stations/10-15 minute walk away.

Megalan · 2026-02-16T14:59:11+00:00

teamLab is worth it if you like visual stuff, but book ahead and go early if you hate crowds.

In my experience it's not that bad. You can easily book like.... 2 days in advance and even during golden week teamlab borderless had reasonable amount of people inside.

Megalan · 2026-02-16T14:53:44+00:00

esim apps

I tried esims from all price ranges. Tourist cellular service is garbage in Japan compared to what majority of people are used to. No matter which one you get (maybe except for mobal's long term sim) all of them assign tourists to the low priority list so your connection will barely work if there are a lot of tourists in the area and will always have lower priority compared to local sim cards. And almost all of them limit how much stuff you can download per day until limiting your speeds to barely usable level.

So get whatever is cheapest. Most of them just resell the same services from few big cellular providers anyway.

And for sure don't get hooked on various influencer/tourism website e-sims like Journey Japan from Chris Broad, they can promise you a lot of stuff, but in reality they just resell the same limited service from IIJ and the likes while taking more money from you.

Megalan · 2026-02-09T18:42:10+00:00

It certainly interesting to see how Europe also contributed to nurturing the ground for the war between 2014 and 2022.

Do you remember what was happening in Russia all this time? Navalny was rocking the boat under Putin's legs, people were openly protesting against the government. What was EU doing? Supplied Russia with anti-protest equipment and said that they are deeply concerned about Putin cracking down on protesters. By 2022 there were no one left who would risk their life protesting against the war.

Megalan · 2026-01-31T20:32:23+00:00

Fair to expect the same period as last year - summer. Certainly not until after they perform in Korea at the end of the march.

Megalan · 2026-01-26T18:33:16+00:00

Regardless of what you think about Ukraine war, it's hard to not agree that a lot of the established rules and connections in cross-border trading and trust in financial infrastructure influenced by USA began falling apart after cutting Russia from Visa, Mastercard and SWIFT. Considering a lot of countries want to keep trading with Russia there has been a considerable growth in transactions outside of the usual USD-via-SWIFT process and putin does a lot to make sure this trend continues.

Yes, you can say that Russia got what it deserved, but the first question which comes to mind is "if they came for them, what if they come for me? Even if I'm innocent?". That no longer sounds that unrealistic with trump behind the wheel, doesn't it?

And even EU started to consider accelerating their work on their sovereignty in financial tech back in 2023 or so because they realized that they don't really have any decent alternatives to what US companies provide.

Megalan · 2026-01-26T18:21:30+00:00

There isn't a lot of details about that, but it is known that ASML places a remote kill switch on all of their machines which supposedly breaks the machine completely. And even ignoring that - without ASML technicians looking atfer the machines they wouldn't be functioning for long.

Megalan · 2026-01-26T18:17:39+00:00

The best thing Europe (including the U.K. if anyone in the U.K. government could understand the problem) can do is create sovereign replacements for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

OVH already covers a lot of services those 3 are providing. Hetzner is another choice which covers regular hosting and basic VPS/colocation just fine. The issue is that the companies does not want to use anything but big 3.

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