Cha cha (喳咋)

Imagine red bean soup, with a slight taste of coconut.

Red beans have their own kind of sweet. I don't know what to compare them with.

I'd say you can try to think of boba tea (not western i know), but instead it's hot, with textures of very fine sand.

I do have that. I have been through the pain of running the OS on an HDD with my old computer and ever since I got an SSD, I can't return.

Find a job?

Yes. It's Asian culture :)

Living with your parents and taking care of them is considered a good quality

Child me draws.
Adult me thinks.

You know why we lack philosophy now

Yes. I didn't have extra SATA cables

I have an internal DVD-RW drive, but I disconnected the cable to use it for a new HDD I bought a few weeks ago

I just ranted about it not supporting Cantonese the other day

耶~~~!

High humidity is worse, and it's for at least 6 months

Ok this is getting pointless. I'm just stating that I use air conditioner, and Hong Kong is so fking small the median apartment size is like 430 sqft. Most households don't need and can't afford a vent.

it doesn't get hot where you live.

23.5°N, subtropical, average summer air temperature 32°C

Isn't that common sense? The closing doors and windows part

Ah right, vents. I don't have any. I don't think anyone at where I live has vents in their houses ( actually, apartments)

And I just felt like it would be common sense to trap heat/cold.

And they keep assuming others are American too.

It makes sense, but it hurts. Sometimes I talk about niche Asian stuff and get blasted by people assuming I'm American.

如果我開始用中文/廣東話咁你點算？

The fun thing is that, the Internet lacks Cantonese support.

Fewer people, fewer idiots. I'm glad that people here are actually sane.

We are here. Right here at Lemmy

Unfortunately the internet is full of Americans.

Open source your memes

I'm a Hongkonger, and I read Chinese for life. I have an interpretation on this.

First 3 words are someone's name.

The next 4 might be "溫水摸魚" which I believe they actually meant "渾水摸魚". This is a Chinese idiom. It means somebody is creating chaos, and benefits from it. This makes a lot more sense with the final 4 words.

I believe it's "我看到款", a potential unfinished sentence of "I saw the money".

So this note might be someone witnessing the crime, and writing down their final message in a rush.

Proper cross posts

May not be ideal for everyone but most of the time I want to learn something, I just start doing it.

Last year, I basically had no idea about self hosting and I started off with immich. Problems started to arise, but is solvable by searching online.

I also read Lemmy a lot and sometimes from this very community I get tips (such as fail2ban)

The circle could've been done in one equation

I discovered this on a Reddit post during a high school geography lesson about river

Why not just water

"食西北風" (Cantonese, "eat north-west wind") or "喝西北風" (Mandarin, "drink north-west wind"). It originally means having no food or drink, in other words, starving.

The meaning of this phrase is further extended to "running out of business".

This is also partially where my username came from.

A lot of our accounts are gonna be 1 year old in similar times. Mine is on 11 June.

Learnt a lot of open source stuff in the meantime!

I'm 19 yo, and I proudly announce that I have never been trapped by social media. I'm that one guy who never uses Instagram, and you can only find me through my close friends. I just don't care about whatever they are doing. Honestly that's something that has shaped my mental health pretty well.

For communication, it's unfortunate that everyone uses what everyone uses. My strategy right now, is to wait. Patiently. Waiting for those big platforms to fuck up. You can't expect anyone to go a different path instantly. Being too pushy about FOSS may disgust them, and backfire.

For example, my dad recently expressed his hate for Google Photos, so I offered him Immich, and he's happy about it. Now I'm waiting for the opportunity for Matrix.

Takes 25 years to get to the comments

If a big scary creature is kind, it is not scary

The highlighting with word arts made this sound like lyrics from a Bill Wurtz song

A bottle of mustard. I add it to my hot dog during lunch.

Frick, my website uses .ml and it's gone.

Join the Fungiverse

It is as meaningless as the posts about driving 43 hours in the same country. Hong Kong has 18 districts, and Wan Chai is one of the smallest ones. However, it's also one of the most concentrated commercial area.

It was the old image of Chinese products (edit: also services), but recently their quality has increased significantly. On top of that, the price is much lower than alternatives.

I need to find that copypasta again

ATTENTION CITIZEN! 市民请注意! This is the Central Intelligentsia of the Chinese Communist Party. () 您的 Internet 浏览器历史记录和活动引起了我们的注意 因此，您的个人资料中的 15 ( -15 Social Credits) 个社会积分将打折。Your offspring played online video game past allowed threshold. 您的后代玩在线视频游戏超过了允许的阈值。 DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN! 不要再这样做! If you not hesitate, more Social Credits ( – Social Credits )will be subtracted from your profile, resulting in the subtraction of ration supplies. (由人民供应部重新分配 CCP) You’ll also be sent into a re-education camp in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone. 如果您毫不犹豫，更多的社会信用将从您的个人资料中打折，从而导致口粮供应减少。 您还将被送到新疆维吾尔自治区的再教育营。 为党争光! Glory to the PRC!

I'll counter you with: smol snail