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With the major breakage, much needs to be done to get the system back to a usable state. But perhaps more importantly, I need to make a plan to make future recovery less frustrating.

In the beginning, I had disk A and B. Disk A died. I bought disk C. Disk C turned out to be faulty. I asked for a return and for the same time I installed a small Gentoo Linux installation in my SSD. Then Disk D came as a replacement …

My hard disk drive had died yesterday. I bought it in late 2015, and it died after being in service for about four and have a year. I was playing Football Manager, and suddenly I noticed a different noise among my fans’ cheering. After finishing the match and the cheering …

Having learned that playing Argentina lower leagues in Football Manager 2019 might be a bad idea, I decide to start another game… And hopefully, this time it should not involve complicated mods, or too many mods. I first considered Algeria, a country that speaks Arabic, Berber and French, which is …

I have been using bash for a few years, and I found it hard to migrate to other shells because I have already created a small collection of helper functions and scripts for my everyday use. For zsh, I had quite some analysis paralysis for it: it is not quite …

And it is an otherwise nondescript day. Anyway, life goes on, and let’s hope tomorrow is less nondescript.

Copying a compiled binary package to another Linux machine of whatever ancient distribution, and being able to run it, is more or less a dream than a reality. Hence why tools like Docker are so useful. But I don’t think I would feel natural to use Docker to run, say, …

In my game, my ASV Arsenal won the 4th place of the league. In the real world, however, ASV Arsenal won the 2th place and thus promoted… It felt good to start the game with a good performance, but the real world counterpart proves to be more impressive.