I test printed once from Mint, but couldn’t daily-drive linux due to other software I need to work not working after a mint version upgrade.

I bought a Brother about a year ago. I hadn’t owned a printer in about 12-15 years. In Japan, one can generally just print things at the convenience store (after uploading (app, browser, etc.) or via USB stick), but I moved to the middle of nowhere and got tired of going back and forth. I also needed to print things like business cards which the cobini printers won’t do.

Some of them (the Finnish ones I saw) just had the bottom being the rack, basically, so at least that had dripping and airflow. Having an actual board below it would be a terrible idea, I think, heh.

I’ve always wanted the version built into a cabinet, but I live in a high-humdity area and that just screams of mold issues. Why not the version as pictured in the open? Earthquakes. Still, definitely at the point in my life that it’s awesome at least in theory

Imagine being forced to spend 20% of your income on a depreciating asset

FuckJapaneseHomes apparently also needs to be a community.

First you tell me not to listen to ghosts and spirits of the dead, now you’re telling me this one had valid warnings. Which is it?!

My appendix tried to kill me (a xennial) and was removed as a result (and thus it shouldn’t be able to give me cancer anymore).

Already had my first cancer scare in my mid-40s, so you are most definitely correct (turned out to be fine this time).

Mine tried to kill me as a teenager so I at least don’t have this to worry about (probably. Maybe.)

Hen denies pep rallies aren’t “partial and little success without huge absence”

(or something like that)

Edit: probably should have used xor in place of and

I wish AMD had something like CUDA that my video rendering software used so I could stop using nvidia.

I’m on a 2080 or 2090 (I forget which). I thought I’d upgrade to the 40xx now that 5090s are out. I looked at the prices and absolutely not. The 5090s are around 500k JPY, and ordering from the US would work out to about the same with exchange, tax, and any possible tariff that exists this week. Salaries here are also much lower than in the west as well on average even for those of us in software.

4070s are still around 100k which is cheaper than last time I looked at 250k ish.

Price aggregator site in Japan if you want to play around: https://kakaku.com/pc/videocard/itemlist.aspx?pdf_Spec103=500 On the left, you’ll see the cards to select and the prices are obvious on the screen.

Yeah, it’s not impossible to be Japan, but I was thinking Taiwan or even HK, perhaps.

Someone would have to look at and understand the existing code and infrastructure rather than just throwing it all away and writing a data migration. In other words, it would never happen.

I used to work in healthcare IT until around 2008ish. Various clinics had things running on 3.11, 95, 98, etc.

For the 3.11 case, it was only controlling the door card/lock system IIRC and was not otherwise on the network, but some of the others, less so. We didn’t have direct control over the sites’ decisions and couldn’t really enforce anything so us removing them was not possible. We did everything we could to convince the site mgmt, of course.

The writing is Chinese so I doubt it’s in Japan.

Cats know their names after a while but often do not care to react to them (or at least not in the way the human wants)

Jobs are scarce here in the countryside. There aren’t a lot of us who work for companies that allow fully remote work, so I’m lucky there (which allows me to run a vegetable farm business as well). There’s a lot more space. People are generally nicer and a bit more open, though racists are everywhere in the world. Small-town bullshit exists everywhere as well and, especially if one looks different, everyone will know their business. For families, there are often many daycare spots open which is a HUGE problem in Tokyo. We need cars almost everywhere out here to do much of anything. Our train line, elevated after the 2011 tsunamis, can be shut down with high winds so people who do work in the cities need to drive fully on those days. Rural is cheaper and slower as well, though that price difference isn’t as big as it used to be with nationwide inflation and price increases that were put off for literal decades in some cases all hitting at once with wages not keeping pace.

I live in rural northern Japan and spent the prior 8+ years in Tokyo. I plan to live the rest of my life here barring something crazy happening. It’s not perfect, but nowhere is. If you have specific questions, I can try to answer

Is that a jug of 漢水 in the background? I can’t read the character above water well enough.