Japan, Tech and Open Source

My classic software selection In 2016 I moved to Japan, and started to share experiences via multiple ways, all with their own strong points.

What’s this about?

TL’DNR Both smartplugs (reporting electrical consumption of a connected device) and the laptop battery allow consumption measurements.

For me, Japan deals with culture, technology and religion in different ways from what I was used to.

Off for a daytrip to the tea garden Takanashi (高梨茶園) in the Tanzawa area.

My past views on Apple hardware In 2007, some time after Apple had rebased MacOS on unix, I bought a Macbook and had a look.

The human factor One night I woke up from shaking.

Here I will try to sum up steps and some backgrounds about running Linux on the Playstation4.

Why would one do a trip in January?

Why would one learn foreign languages?

Christmas in Europe and Japan Before Corona, flights from Japan to Europe in the middle of December were full of couples with one partner from Europe, and the other partner from Japan.

I was asked to share my experiences about the System76 launch keyboard, and a Mastodon post would not provide enough space - so a blog article it is.

What’s here?

How are society and the low Corona infection numbers in Japan related?

..but why?

Japan online lesson experience and online learning I was recently talking for 1 hour with a Japanese class and teachers, about the internet, Open Source, and what online lessons can look like.

My view so far So.. my view on Linux containers, managed with i.e. podman or docker so far were this: complicated, and for servers.

What is this about?

In the previous article I talked about external meters and pmda-denki.

TL’DR With a Linux laptop, you can quite accurately measure the systems current overall power consumption while on battery.

What I can compare..

First I worked and payed taxes in Germany.

Background: I’m a German, living in Japan.

So, having seen Norbert and @codewiz mentioning Plasma frequently, I decided to give it a try.

Onsen?

There is great food in Japan, let me share a week of autumn food in Japan.

Intro I get weekly Japanese lessons via Skype.

The previous article introduces into HDMI grabbers on Linux.

HDMI grabbing?

Climbing Mount Fuji at Night: Ascend covers the ascend.

In many countries, climbing the highest mountain is just for professionals, or for expeditions.

First things first: there will not be a clear winner, but let’s try to look at this from various angles.

Background Everybody knows about the Japanese “san”, which you attach when communicating with Japanese colleagues.

German/Japanese/English versions of this text are here: https://fluxcoil.net/ .