@saturn
Recently I just learned the key to happiness? It’s not money. It’s not fame.
It’s staying the hell away from idiots. 😎
Life is already hard enough without having to deal with people who bring unnecessary drama and nonsense into your day.
And if you see the drama coming from a mile away?
Smile, wave, and walk the other direction. 🚶♂️💨
Stay smart. Stay sane. Stay far, far away from fools. 😌
— Contribution by Bryan
😤 VLC shows squares instead of Chinese characters?
KNN CB Apple, always need us to suffer first before they sort things out. Wasted brain cells again, but whatever—just do this:
That’s it — Chinese characters should now display properly in subtitles or file names.
I tried to explain to Kock the critical importance of using a 4-point support structure instead of 3 for the car seat bracket, he’s converting a van into a 7-seater and recommended switching from aluminum to steel for its vastly superior strength and resistance to vibration. But he completely dismissed the idea. He’s convinced the current design is “strong enough” and is more concerned about the lack of a seatbelt and gaining extra storage space if only 3 supports are used.
I told him flat-out what’s the point of a seatbelt if the base structure can’t hold up? If the bracket fails, no amount of restraint will matter. His response? Only his family would be using it, and they’d “monitor it for safety.” When I asked him if he was seriously okay with putting his family at risk on an untested structure, his answer was basically yes provided someone’s keeping an eye on it.
It’s mind-blowing how ego and ignorance can completely obliterate basic engineering principles. And frankly, I was the idiot for wasting time trying to reason with someone who isn’t even open to it. Lesson learned: never argue with people who are too proud or too stupid to listen. It’s a futile exercise, and the real-world risks are much too high.
Stupaikity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time; stupiakity does not.
Recently, an old friend asked me to help update his Intel Mac mini—he had forgotten the password, and I thought, “No problem lah.”
But after a long break from doing anything technical or command-line related, I realized I was rusty. Siao Liao !!! So I decided to relearn everything—practised all the terminal commands, read up, simulated scenarios… I basically trained like I was prepping for a hacker movie role.
Then came the actual day.
All that practice?
Didn’t use a single command I prepared.
Instead, I had to think on my feet and rely on what I learned from past experience. The solution came from instinct and memory, not the prep work.
Moral of the story: Just be yourself—especially in front of old friends. There’s nothing to prove, and nothing to lose face over.
Sometimes your past experience already has your back.