tiredofsametab

I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.

Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good

I’d love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)

I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).

I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.

I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore

well, I’m snipped so that’s not a problem, but if we decided to for some reason adopt, they probably wouldn’t love it. I wonder if tabbed browsing would ever go away and it would be a surname based on something that everyone forgets (there are more obscure examples but for example Cooper, Cobbler, Fletcher, Bowyer, Tyler, Taylor, Brewster, etc.)

Yup! It’s dumb. Bonus one: one could get sued by posting on social media a pic/vid that shows someone cheating and they get caught. It’s profoundly stupid

I grew up in rural Ohio and spent time in rural TX as well for a brief period. As a kid, I walked about 20+ minutes to bail hay in my neighbor’s fields in the summer for cash. I am currently farming in rural Tohoku Japan.

Certain things are similar and certain things are different. To call where I live a suburb is just wrong yet we, and those even more rural than us, have fibre. I looked at buying land on the side of a mountain before buying this place and, although I’d have to pay for the run from the nearest point, I could still get fiber. Being Japan, I of course had to apply by fax machine, but the infrastructure is there for most of the country, both urban and rural.

Edit to add: we have multiple fiber companies as well, at least one of which being a fully private company.

Japan really likes it’s foam (7:3 beer to foam is considered best). They even have cans where most of the top pops off and it foams up to a head (I hate those). I was always the guy who would order it without foam at my local. One of the half-Japanese staff was the same. I don’t care for the texture (and younger, poorer me didn’t care for what I saw as a waste of money). The only good thing I’ve heard is it can keep the beer fresher in the glass for longer, but I was never a slow drinker.

In Japan, a person can get sued for leaving an honest, negative review. One has to be careful with wording to avoid that completely (i.e. making sure that it’s clearly stated that the content is a personal opinion (as opposed to an accusation, I guess?)). Some people still do write them and some get scary take-down notices (which may or may not be real or enforceable). As far as I know, someone could leave a low rating on like a star-based system or whatever and be fine, but I am not a lawyer.

a kitchen is hell… mostly because of him.

As someone who used to work in kitchens before his show was a thing, there’s always been abusive assholes there.

Posting from my fiber-to-the-home connection in rural bumfuck Japan presently for no particular reason.

(Mostly) very good public transit in big cities and even in some smaller areas.

I personally still love to see the mountains. I grew up in a place scraped flat by glaciers in the US and seeing the mountains on a couple of sides of me every day here in Japan still feels really neat and inspiring, even a decade in.

I think VK is still around which I also think is Russian.

mixi might still just be owned by a Japanese company, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some US company gobbled it up. You need a Japanese phone number (or maybe phone short mail address from a Japanese carrier) to use it and no one I know has used it in many, many years, but it technically still exists.

Japan takes baseball teams seriously to the point that some bars forbid anything but the most basic conversations like with politics and religion. I think younger generations care less, but ive seen conversations ended as they got heated.

If trump is allowed to run again, then the constitution does not matter and, likely, the elections would not matter.

Fucking gross

My wife and I are almost 10 years apart. We met right before her 30th birthday, I was also once the younger partner when I was 20 and my then-gf was 34. That failed for a number of reasons, but I don’t think age was one of them. With legal, consenting adults, whatever works for you is fine, I think.

I agree with charity and giving them away as a first priority. However, have you considered building an igloo?

My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.