I often mention in blog posts that I feel a little bad that this blog is always a one-way conversation.

The Apple ][ — is using the brackets to type the title out cheesy? I mean, clearly it’s stylized to look neat and computery.

I found this thing at a flea market yesterday for $10. It’s pretty great. I installed Debian 11 with Raspberry Pi Desktop (which hasn’t been updated in around two years, but it’s still cool as a novelty). It even plays games and holds a charge!

大家好！

This has nothing to do with anything, and everything to do with my off-hours Mandarin studying strategies. I was looking around the internet last night and I found a neat tool, which also has an offline version. It’s a Chinese-English dictionary—I used to use the Yabla one until it went down earlier this week—this one has a little bit of additional information, too, like HSK levels. I’m not sure how the vocabulary from one to the other compares, but this one also has an offline version; on Mac, this is a dictionary that you can add to the “Dictionary” application, which makes it pretty clean and elegant and match with the rest of the user interface.