Full name is Rin Patchouli. Former Pleroma dev, now just a CS student. Moved from Russia to Malaysia. I had accounts at @rin and @rin, but I guess this is my home now.
decided to replace a fuel filter in my motorbike. the part itself was like 1 usd and instructions on the internet seemed pretty simple, so decided to do it myself.
successfully did everything up until screwing the fuel pump back to the fuel tank, I overtigtened a flange nut and the thread on the fuel tank just snapped in half. this resulted in the fuel pump not being completely secure, so it starts leaking fuel if the tank is more than half-full.
had to visit like 4 mechanics since none of them had the spare part and each of them asked something akin to "what the fuck, how?" upon seeing the damage, to which I just lied smth like "oh, I bought the bike used and it came like this. what an asshole that seller guy :ARU: "
> Malaysian citizenship can be relinquished by making a declaration of renunciation. It is automatically revoked from Malaysians who voluntarily acquire a foreign nationality or reside overseas for more than five years and have not annually registered at a Malaysian diplomatic mission to retain citizenship
I wonder if this rule is practically enforced. imagine becoming stateless because you forgot to visit the embassy one year
was drinking with a chinese friend the other day. had a thing where we say cheers in a different language every time, so I just casually asked "oh btw how do you say cheers in malay?". he gave it a hard think for a few seconds, before we both started to laugh as we realized the contradiction
one of my classmates showed me what his helix setup with like 5 lines of config can do and now I recall the definition of sunk cost fallacy every time I update my 200 line init.vim
legally blind friend was doing some small talk with a vending machine restocking guy on campus, and the guy asked him "are the small bumps on the steering wheel, so that blind people could drive?"
