我使用小狼毫輸入法（即中州韻輸入法引擎，英文Rime，在蘋果電腦系統中稱鼠鬚管，因視窗作業系統是最常用的作業系統，故下文以運行在其上的小狼毫之名稱之）中的注音輸入方案已有多年，它已經成為了我不可或缺的一個工具。如果沒有小狼毫輸入法，我現在在電腦上就無法打字了，因為我對它進行了很大程度的客製化，我已經無法適應其他輸入法的輸入習慣。既然是我唯一使用的電腦輸入法，那麼我覺得我應該把它變得更加好用。小狼毫輸入法固然是存在不少問題的，有些問題在之前因為影響不是很大，所以我就沒有去修正干預它。但是現在為了使它更加完美，為了提高我的打字體驗，為了讓我使用起來更加得心應手，我決定動手去修正。而目前讓我在意的有兩個問題，第一個問題是小狼毫的默認繁體字用字不合我意，例如在繁體模式下它輸出的繁體字是「羣、峯」，而我更加習慣用「群、峰」這些字。這裡只是舉例，後文我會全部列出我不喜歡的字以及我偏好用的字。第二個問題是它的字庫裡面有很多生僻字，導致在打字的過程中這些生僻字因為重碼影響選字，也不美觀，更何況我是一個強迫症。
When you are reading this, I assume that you already know what IRC is and know how to use it basically. IRC, abbreviated from Internet Relay Chat, is an online chatting protocol with a long history since 1988. It is something like a retro version of Discord. I may write an article to teach you how to use IRC in the future but not now. Well, I am a fan of IRC although it is dying nowadays, maybe I am not a devoted fan of it but at least I think it is fun and I like it anyway.
2023年9月的時候，因為公司宿舍變動問題，我在外面租了一間小單間。出租屋距離公司7公里，開車約15到20分鐘到達。房間裝修風格很新，有窗臺，採光好。說實話要在潮州本地找到這種現代類型的裝修風格並不簡單，它單純就是為了出租給單人而建的樓。不過也有一些缺點，就是地方比較偏僻，路不太好走之類的，不過這裡就略去不表，因為我主要想說的是辦理中國聯通寬帶的一些事。之所以要辦理寬帶，是因為出租屋沒有提供網路，需要自己去辦理。我起初是有考慮過使用流量卡隨身Wifi之類的方式來上網，但是因為擔心流量不足，以及網路品質等問題，就放棄了，而且我看到流量卡的價格似乎也不是那麼便宜，有些便宜的價格我又懷疑僅僅是前幾個月便宜，後面可能會起價，因此我決定辦理寬帶。
火狐瀏覽器是一個非常著名且流行的網頁瀏覽器，它免費、開放原始碼且客製化程度高，所以深得我的喜愛。它有着其他瀏覽器無法比擬的優點與特性，例如說它可以在about:config中給每種語言設定不同的回退字體，非常自由與方便。而作為一個電腦軟體，它也跟其他絕大多數的電腦軟體一樣，會有版本的更新。而對於普通使用者而言，像是修復漏洞這種細微的更新是難以察覺的，能讓普通使用者察覺的更新主要是使用者介面的更新。由於審美的變化，軟體會進行介面外觀的修改，火狐瀏覽器也不例外。自其誕生以來，其介面經過了多次更新，而這些更新對於使用者來講，可能會造成不習慣，需要使用者耗費一定時間去適應這種變化，剛開始更新的時候，一些設定按鈕可能會更換位置，導致需要花費一定時間才能找到。
As we know, there are some existing streaming services like Twitch and Bilibili. They may be the most common choice for most people, however, these are public services. Not every time you want to stream to public, sometimes you just want to stream to your friends. Besides, these commercial and public streaming services usually don’t provide the original steaming links to you, which means you cannot watch steaming on your local video player. Therefore, building a steaming server by your own is kind of necessary.
Sometimes we will have the need to share files to other people. If it is just a small file, such as a word document or an image with the size smaller than 5 MB, then sending it via email or instant messaging apps like WeChat will be enough. However, when it comes to large files such as videos, email or instant messaging apps won’t allow you to send because they have the size limitation for the attachment. Maybe someone will use cloud storage service like Google Drive, OneDrive, Baidu Netdisk and Mega.nz but these aren’t the best choice because you need to upload your files to their server and other people will download them from their server, this is not peer-to-peer, it will cost double time or even more if the server limits your download speed. So I think the best solution is to serve the files locally, of course you will need a public IP address before doing this. I will take Ubuntu for example.
在大學期間，我第一次聽說Kindle電子書閱讀器，當時對它還沒有什麼瞭解，只知道是用來閱讀電子書的，以及用來蓋泡麵的哏。2020年5月，我看到了網路上關於亞馬遜與咪咕聯合推出的Kindle咪咕版的「天天愛閱讀，Kindle0元享」活動，說是只要購買468元人民幣的Kindle咪咕版，然後連續100天打卡，就可以全額返現。這個活動引起了我的興趣，當時開始思考要不要考慮購買，當然吸引我的主要是這個返現活動，而不是Kindle本身。但是稍加思考後，我便決定不購買了，原因是當時幾乎不需要用到Kindle，而且這個打卡100天的活動很容易就忘記打卡，所以想要拿到全額返現並不是一件簡單的事情，而且我估計可能也不僅僅是打卡這麼簡單，可能還需要其他的一些附加操作，例如說需要閱讀多少分鐘的書籍之類的。所以與Kindle的緣分就暫且告一段落。
I dropped Ubuntu because of the user interface of Gnome, and then KDE came to my eyes. I was looking for a desktop environment that has the taskbar at the bottom and without top bar, just like Windows, then I found KDE. The other reason why I choose KDE is that the theme color of it is blue, my favorite color, while Ubuntu uses the orange color as the theme color, I don’t like orange. I tried Kubuntu 20.04 LTS when 22.04 LTS hasn’t released. I was not satisfied with the Application Launcher (Start Menu) of 20.04, which was using Plasma 5.18 LTS, there was no option for me to view all applications sorted by alphabet, all the applications are categorized, although I could use other Application Launcher. Luckily, Kubuntu 22.04 LTS was released on April 21, 2022, together with KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS and its new Application Launcher with the feature that sorts all the applications by alphabet, this is a necessary function. I downloaded it from USTC Mirror and installed it in my computer. The fresh minimal installed Kubuntu cost 12GiB of disk.
After installing Windows 10, some necessary software should be installed. Luckily, there aren’t as many settings to do as Ubuntu.
This is the Step 0. Windows 10 can be downloaded officially from Microsoft, choose Windows 10 Pro edition while installing. However, I prefer the LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) edition. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 can be downloaded here (now at rg-adguard, BUZZHEAVIER, or via Magnet Link), here is an ed2k link for it too but maybe there aren’t enough seeders. Make sure not to download the evaluation edition from Microsoft official website.
Every time I install a new software, the first thing to do is to configure it. Doing the configuration could be very annoying, especially when you are doing a re-installation, you have to do something you did before but you couldn’t remember well. Some software has a good default setting, I mean the setting suits me, I don’t need to do any extra setting, but for some software, the default setting doesn’t fit my habits, I have to do a lot of settings, I even have to export and backup the config file (if possible) in case of re-installation. Ubuntu is the latter, the annoying one.