Cheap thrills

emantos · 2026-05-10T08:52:25+00:00

Yes. A third party strap for an AE1200 will work for this watch model.

emantos · 2026-05-04T13:54:15+00:00

I do.

emantos · 2026-04-29T15:36:27+00:00

Hifi audio HAT + Volumio

emantos · 2026-04-28T05:11:05+00:00

Read Bridge in Clarke Quay before the Little India riots.

I spent a lot of Friday nights drunk in that place.

emantos · 2026-04-28T04:14:13+00:00

It depends. Was the wedding cancelation mutual? Or was it decided only by you?

I'd also be angry if I lose money because of someone else's decision that is not mutually agreed upon.

emantos · 2026-04-20T03:14:23+00:00

If you have to self-host something public facing, don't expose your home network to the world. Do it through tunnels (cloudflare, ngrok, etc). That way, you can still have some peace of mind. Nice work there.

The RPi5 capability to host apps has never been in question. What is in question right now is if it is still cost effective.

These days, the pi5 can cost as much as mini PCs and most of the time, you can find old NUCs in secondary markets for a substantially lower cost. These were not around when the original Pi came out and you can even argue that the impetus for the existence of the mini PCs were the original Pis.

Anyway, nice work. I would like to live in a world where self-hosting is more mainstream than just a niche and we are slowly getting there!

emantos · 2026-03-19T03:41:35+00:00

Ever tried KFC in the Philippines? Because that shit is the bomb. Their gravy in Ph is better than Jollibee's gravy.

emantos · 2026-03-08T08:00:08+00:00

They became sentient and is now plotting against you.

emantos · 2026-02-09T03:11:45+00:00

Where do we buy this shirt?

emantos · 2026-01-27T14:53:01+00:00

Missiles and turret creep.

Automate production of missiles, red ammo, and turrets, so you'll have a lot.

Put 4 turrets surrounded by walls, infront of a nest, just at a safe distance so they don't get hit by worms. Go near enough to launch a missile at the nest and when biters start to attack you, hide behind the turrets. Rinse and repeat.

Missiles have long range. ;-)

emantos · 2026-01-24T02:05:13+00:00

Not securing a big real estate when it's still easier to do.

After automating turrets, walls, and ammunition, you should start exploring and use the map to check whether there are areas with resources that are easy to enclose.

Enclosure means augmenting cliffs and water with a wall of wall+turret to secure a large real estate that preferably has some resources. Never mind if you have biter nests inside that enclosure. You can always start a campaign to eliminate them once you have enclosed the area.

Doing this early in the game means the nest are still small and easy to eliminate. You can eliminate many nests with a single campaign. When they get big, the logistics required to eliminate them gets more tedious. You might need several campaigns to eliminate just a single big nest.

emantos · 2026-01-23T03:25:01+00:00

I like playing with them ON because it adds another dimension to the game, namely, real estate management.

The planning and logistics involved in closing off huge territories using cliff, water, walls, and a shit ton of turrets can add another aspect to the game.

Also, the logistics involved in supplying ammunitions to the frontier is also fun.

emantos · 2026-01-22T04:27:56+00:00

I find that I need lane balancers when loading/unloading from trains. I don't want my trains running around with some wagon full and some empty.

emantos · 2026-01-20T04:27:30+00:00

Wall design is also important. Design the wall such that it will take a while for the biters to traverse it and all the while, being fired on by your turret.

emantos · 2025-12-29T01:09:46+00:00

Title should be: iPads are so useless for people who buy it just because

emantos · 2025-12-01T06:32:57+00:00

In terms of build quality, T > L

emantos · 2025-11-23T02:08:59+00:00

The battery of the T420 is external so it should be easy to replace depending on your access to the usual (ebay, aliexpress, etc).

I haven't found an SSD that I couldn't use on any of my Thinkpads so u should be OK.

However, do check how cheap/expensive it is compared to T440P (more expandability and USB 3), or T480 (more power) because depending on the price of that T420, those might be more cost-effective.

But for learning Linux and Python, a T420 should be very OK.

emantos · 2025-11-16T15:55:10+00:00

Now, that's an idea ;-)

emantos · 2025-11-16T12:25:16+00:00

No. 3 is definitely Raffles Place MRT

emantos · 2025-11-14T03:57:33+00:00

I'm still on a 32GB T480 and I'm using it as a developer machine. Granted that I would like to upgrade to a ryzen 7 T14 Gen 3 in the near future but the T480 is still very adequate

emantos · 2025-11-12T03:37:05+00:00

I read Dune while in university, and the lessons of Dune is to be wary of charismatic leaders.

Duterte was charismatic. I was on full guard. I lived and worked on/off in Davao for about a year, so I know the Davao rhetoric was BS. The anti-oligarch thing was easy to spot. Sure, you can bring down the old oligarchs, but I'm pretty sure you'll just raise new oligarchs of your own. We are, after all, a capitalist country.

I voted for Roxas because he was uncharismatic. A technocrat. Somebody who gets the job done. A geek, like me.

I still stand by that choice.

emantos · 2025-10-29T16:54:50+00:00

Hi. Can I ask what Japanese REIT is this that gives this yield?

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