FYI: Roaming on a foreign carrier completely bypass firewall as far as I know…

Mom is visiting China right now and she told me she can visit Youtube on her phone data, but not from my Aunt’s wifi.

Its $50 USD for a 30-day pass with merely 15GB of data on T-Mobile (slowed to like 256kb unlimited afterwards)… feels kinda expensive… but she mostly just want the unlimited phone calls feature tbh

Basically if you manage to get a sim (or eSim, but that requires importing a phone since phones sold in China do not have eSim capability) from outside China with an active plan, you’re good to go.

FYI: Anti-AI people are a very small minority of the world.

When more “normies” join in, you’ll see a natural shift into being more “pro AI”

Anecdote: A fucking therapist told me to “just use AI to help you write a resume”… 🧐 (don’t remember how I even got to the topic of resumes)

Yeah… turns out not a good fit, for other reasons… (constantly just be like “go outside” and making me feel so unconfortable and I kinda had an existential crisis on whether or not I belonged in this country)

Oh…

Germophobia…

🫠

But the more “weird” thing would be:

I use biometrics on phone so the password wont get revealed in public, but I always make sure to disable biometrics before I sleep (or if I would get separated from my phone for any reason, like taking an exam for something, or going through security screening)… sometimes even reboot it if I don’t have any apps that I need to stay opened in the background and don’t mind the inconvienience…

And if somehow the biometrics don’t work, and I have to enter it in public, I make sure to look around for any cameras pointed at me, and try to cover the screen so no cameras can capture the password…

(Do people who use biometrics disable it before sleep, or is that just a “me” thing?)

Also every time I enter a lockscreen password on a phone, I make sure to wipe off the screen and any potential residual fingerprints.

For computers, I just run my fingers through the entire keyboard after entering the password so theres equal amounts of residual fingerprints over the entire keyboard

This is so you can’t try to use some fingerprinting shenanigans to find what keys I pressed and basically recontruct my password…

(I probably look very paranoid lol)

i talk while watching movies

You don’t do it at the theater, right?

You can’t turn off updates in Motorola Phones… like… it just auto downloads…

Does not feel so good when you know the restrictions on “sideloading” is coming soon… 👀

Officially, no. I only have Depression and Anxiety.

Funny how when you’re a kid, you always wanted to be home alone, then when you reach adulthood, suddenly that shit aint funny anymore, it’s bleak…

Me:

1. Open Maps
2. Stare at it
3. Mentally think to my self this is my life now (say, I’m waiting at an appointment for something)
4. Press home buttom
5. Open App list
6. Scroll up and down
7. To back to home page
8. STARE at it, pretending I’m busy doing something
9. Oh shit maybe I should actually do something
10. Realize I actually haven’t taken the time to download anything beforehand
11. Downloads Lichess
12. Actually I wanna just browse wikipedia
13. Find an article for what stuff I have on my mind
14. STARE at it, pretending I’m reading an ebook
15. Actually I can’t focus, home screen again
16. Opens the notes app
17. • blank note
18. Hmm okay lets write a poem… how am I feeling right now…
19. Writes 1-2 line…
20. Fuck I can’t think of anything else… my head hurts…
21. Press homescreen
22. Stare at it for 10 seconds
23. Turn it off
24. Spin the phone around like a fidget spinner
25. Bored af

Recommendations?

Idk how to even get into listening to English-language music…

Should I spotify? But then again that’s corporate… I’d get cancelled here if I start using that…

How are you even supposed to… um… music?

I’m literally just listening to random Cantonese and Mandarin music on Youtube…

The only music I ever had at home was hearing my dad’s Cantopop… that’s my introduction to music…

(And also just random intrumental music I found online… like beetoven stuff)

So C-Pop is what I know most…

(The only English songs I know are stuff similar to “Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson, cuz I just wanted to find songs about the theme of shitty parenting… cuz I had problems with parents and need some songs like that for cartharisis)

Omg 🤣

My favorite Anime (well one of my favorites, not sure its its still at the top now)

I always imagined this idea of: me just randomly talk to foreigners in China… to see reactions… like… If I ever visit China, I’m straight up just gonna randomly walk up to English-speakers and be like “sup homie”

Might confused then for like a good few seconds since most people in China with an East Asian face does not have an American accent.

Okay my alts are:

@wongkakui@piefed.social

@wongkakui@quokk.au

@deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works

Dunno how I upset you with this post, but go ahead… 🤷‍♂️

Aint no way, they spoke fake Mandarin 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-wbpZ7-5gQ

I watched like 2 clips and I already cringed the fuck out

Nah bruh, I went to 2 years of elementary school in China and watched a lot of Mandarin cartoons and TV shows, aint no way they did this…

So butchered…

I can feel the host cringing

This sounds like how American teachers tried to pronounce my name… 💀

(Okay it’s not fake-fake, just so awful you need a PhD in Chinese Language to understand it)

Great Firewall of Europe

So now Chinese who managed to bypass the firewall cannot access western sites behind Google’s new Captcha-wall?

Wow, great job, Google. 🙄

(I mean unless they managed to import a Googled-phone into China too)

Yea I know. I saw Project Hail Mary in an IMAX theater a month ago… so different…

So immersive…

Also so loud…

My favorite thing was that quiet sequence and the light flashing sequence

That was the first time I’ve been in a movie theater…

Also is this guy British? Lol, do British people talk like that. Its so funny to see them trying to be as insulting as possible while looking “professional” doing it. xD

Context:

8 years old was when my family immigrated to the US… probably also the factor of being in a foreign place…

Not sure if there any any immigrant parents that would just lets their kids roam free without supervision…

Noise-Cancelling Headphones…

not to mention any specific ones, just the general concept of it…

Everything sounds better, more immersive…

Also blocks out family arguments to varying degress of success depending on how much you spend on headphones…

Oh yea btw the first time I watched interstellar was on a cheap android phone with LCD 720p display using the phone speakers… 👀

On the other side of it, Bluetooth Speakers

Can sort of change the atmoshere of a room, feel slightly less “depressing”

“Earth Court? Mars Court? What Inner Court gives Belters justice?”

One of my most memorable quotes from The Expanse

Lol. My mom didn’t give me permission to be outside by myself until like 6th grade when she finally signed the permission papers to let me walk home from school by myself. (6th grade is still considered Elementary school where I live, still required parents to pick up as a standard protocol)

Cuz she was afraid of (a) kidnappings and (b) that someone would report it and then “CPS would come and take me away and I’d never see mom again”

That was like when I was 12 years old… whats that in Cat Years?

Oh the “hold your child’s (read: cat) hands (read: paws) when crossing the street” is gonna get a bit weird… (you’re gonna get scratched by “your child” (aka: cat))

Funny enough, I just read a wikipedia article with “Japanese” and “Javanese” in the same sentence… kinds breaks your brain a little lol