My wife has a mahjong app she loves, 琼崖海南麻将. Back in China it was part of her day: a few rounds here, a few rounds there. A few months ago we moved to Brisbane, and the app quietly stopped working. She could still log in and look around the lobby, but the moment she tried to join a game it got stuck, and after a while it just gave up. So, eventually, did she.

I’m a gamer using Xbox One Controller. One of the issues I faced recently since I migrated my daily driver from Windows to Linux is to connect my controller to the machine to actually game. It needs a few tinkering to work, unlike how convenient it is to plug-and-play on Windows, which is pretty fine because I’d never got a chance to understand those driver stuff if it wasn’t because the accidental conflict between the controller dongle and my USB WiFi stick.