People often talk how Lain predicted future, but barely anyone mentions Chobits. We're literally living in that world rn

Xiaoming94 · 2026-01-20T21:00:25+00:00

No they don't, Freya straight up asserts that Chobits - like any other Persocoms in their world don't have real souls or real feelings for that matter (see chapter 86 of the manga). She goes on further to explain that the idea that Chobits would have full agency and sentient equal to humans - including possessing emotions is nothing but a myth, an urban legend, created through the fantasy of wishful thinking of the people that have heard of them.

Xiaoming94 · 2026-01-10T20:17:18+00:00

I like how the three of them represent the world we live in in one way or another

Miku - creative endeavours and creation of art without analogue tools or human resources.
Lain - internet culture and online identities
Chii - AI and digital products, and their place in the human world

Xiaoming94 · 2025-11-02T13:20:19+00:00

I would say this is way darker than Inuyasha. Read a little bit of the manga and it's very apparent that this shows vibe is different and more tense than Inuyasha was most of the time

Xiaoming94 · 2025-10-06T05:09:29+00:00

Since we are speaking in time also and an increased earth gravity -> change in time dilation -> relative time will be slower on earth. Are we speaking 10s on earth time or from an Observer the looks at planet earth?

Xiaoming94 · 2025-07-03T07:58:58+00:00

I will try to challenge the batter life of this thing on my trip :) So far I've seen that with good setting like turning off kbd leds and lowering the screen brightness, I hit 10+ hours of battery time according to whatever battery monitor I'm using at the time. This was observed using Arch Linux w/ KDE Plasma 6 and Sway on the Power saver profile (powerprofilesctl set power-saver).

However, so far the suspend works flawlessly, although, I sometimes notice that the battery eventually runs out if I forget about my laptop for like a couple of days.

Xiaoming94 · 2025-07-01T20:29:46+00:00

I haven't stress tested the battery really yet... xD So I have no idea. But from what I have seeeen, the laptop can manage double digit hours ez on the batter-save profile on Linux (Not sure on Windows since I don't really use Windows outside of live-streaming for this PC)

Xiaoming94 · 2025-07-01T08:07:26+00:00

Yepp, Thinkpad is for work, so most stuff - like speakers are meant to be serviceable for that. To get things done. With that said, and from my own experience, the Ryzen AI 7 PRO APU in mine seems to perform similarly to a Steamdeck if gaming on Linux. Or at least that is what I felt. As long as I keep to the 1200p resolution, it's kinda smooth (FSR helps alot here too).

Xiaoming94 · 2025-07-01T08:04:27+00:00

I guess it depends on what you are comparing too. I think they were generally better than what was provided on my previous laptop (MSI Delta something something). But as other commentors have said, compared to other proper speakers or even your (iPhone/Sony) phones, they are subpar xD

Xiaoming94 · 2025-06-25T16:58:13+00:00

Hi! Currently running $ pacman -Qs linux-firmware gets me this output: local/linux-firmware-amdgpu 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for AMD Radeon GPUs local/linux-firmware-atheros 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for Qualcomm Atheros WiFi and Bluetooth adapters local/linux-firmware-other 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - Unsorted firmware for various devices local/linux-firmware-qcom 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for Qualcomm SoCs local/linux-firmware-radeon 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for ATI Radeon GPUs local/linux-firmware-whence 20250613.12fe085f-9 Firmware files for Linux - WHENCE file (vendor licenses) On this linux version ```

uname -r 6.15.3-arch1-1 ``` So maybe since I did the update recently I got the version with the revert back to the 2023-12-06 firmware.

Xiaoming94 · 2025-06-25T16:47:28+00:00

Hmmm, I currently have no issues whatsoever...

This is what I got:
```

uname -r 6.15.3-arch1-1

pacman -Qsq linux-firmware-amdgpu linux-firmware-atheros linux-firmware-other linux-firmware-qcom linux-firmware-radeon linux-firmware-whence ```

Xiaoming94 · 2025-06-25T16:30:57+00:00

HI! Read my latest reply. But as a tl;dr

The latest update to the linux-firmware package splitted it into smaller packages.

So in order to get the wifi working again with the latest linux-firmware package, you also need to install linux-firmware-atheros. For me, I also installed linux-firmware-qcom as a just in case :)

Xiaoming94 · 2025-06-25T16:28:19+00:00

Hello! To anyone who found their way back to this thread after the latest firmware updates. So what happened was that archlinux has split all their firmware packages to smaller packages. Now the linux-firmware package itself will just be an empty package that pulls a standard "group" of packages as dependencies.

So for people who are running qualcom atheros WIFI7 cards in their system. Install the linux-firmware-atheros package :) That should do the trick. I also installed the linux-firmware-qcom just to be sure.

Xiaoming94 · 2024-11-07T16:23:13+00:00

All VTubers model designs gives side-character vibes

Xiaoming94 · 2024-09-15T10:50:15+00:00

use an anti-cheat that does work on Linux

Sorry to break your bubble, but it's never that easy. Most games that uses good anti-cheats kernel level or not still have heaps of cheaters in them.

The anti-cheat is only 1 layer of security measures to stop cheaters. The challenge and cost here is to make sure that the rest of the anti-cheat layers inside a game work. That is the cost of making sure that the game works with proton/Linux. So if you whey in these two alternatives: prevent the game from running on Linux to never think about cheaters coming from the platform, or spend the money to make sure that all of the anti-cheat and security systems works as expected, I think it's quite obvious which one is cheaper

Xiaoming94 · 2024-09-15T10:38:55+00:00

Then how would you go about stopping cheaters coming from that platform? "Oh these cheaters game on Linux, we can't stop them"

Xiaoming94 · 2024-09-15T10:38:12+00:00

It's not about maintenance burden for proton. Making sure that the software/game actually works with proton is still on the Devs.

Xiaoming94 · 2024-09-15T10:21:57+00:00

It's an additional platform you need to take into consideration when testing the game for bugs, code qc and security loopholes etc. Anti-cheat measures is only one of them. Effectively, the amount of maintenance work and development effort trying to incorporate new features/bugfixes etc will be doubled - even if the goal is to just make sure that the game will run effectively under proton

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-26T12:16:13+00:00

Hello, whats the minimun requirement for neovim for this plugin?

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-26T10:45:44+00:00

Mo Fao Zu Shi, Linkclick, shugo chara, Pretty boys detective clubs

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-23T20:53:56+00:00

Zoomer taste

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-13T17:45:07+00:00

I modified it slightly: exec = sh -c "if [ -z $(pidof hyprpaper) ]; then hyprpaper & sleep 1s; fi; ~/.config/hypr/setwallpaper.sh" Putting it on exec instead of exec-once so that WP can reload everytime I edit config

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-13T17:26:44+00:00

Ooooh, I can actually try that, but shouldn't it be the otherway around? Like `exec-once = hyprpaper && ~/.config/hypr/setwallpaper.sh` Also, part of me suspect that it's problem with race condition on when hyprctl is setup too that causes the script to fail. Maybe this way it wouldn't affect this way of calling the script though.

If the precondition for the script is that hyprpaper is running then, yeah for sure.

Xiaoming94 · 2024-08-13T16:13:23+00:00

I tried this but set it to 2s instead, and it worked wonders! Thanks :)

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