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Background As part of the starting a new journey, I had to reconfigure my personal laptop. Everything had to start from scratch — from the ISO image, to system installation, to configuration, to being fully functional. It wasn’t as easy as it seemed. Especially when I realized that, even for some of the most common tools, I had to learn and install from scratch (or maybe I just hadn’t paid enough attention before). ...

Introducing My Kitty - Xiaojiu Who is he Name: Xiaojiu Birth: February 2022 Gender: Male Personality: Lazy, sometimes gentle, sometimes grumpy, not very talkative When the story started It was a stray cat. On March 3, 2022, just one month old, it crawled into my car. From then on, it officially became a member of our family. Its name comes from this special day—March 3rd. Unconsciously, it reminded me of “San San De Jiu (三三得九)” from the Chinese multiplication table《九九乘法表》. ...

Intro WSL: Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL is a tiny Linux VM embedded in Windows, default is Ubuntu. Homepage: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL One-Click Install (Online Install) wsl --install Issue: wsl --install is very slow, mainly because Microsoft’s overseas servers have poor bandwidth in China. Fastest solution: Offline manual install (domestic mirror download), done in a few minutes. Manual Install (Offline Install) Prerequisites Windows 11 Home fully supports WSL2, no Hyper-V required. Just enable two system features, install the MSI you downloaded, and import the wsl image - works fully offline. ...

Bio Yahoon Yao Engineer, Open Source Advocate, Tech Writer, Lifelong Learner An IT veteran with 20+ years of experience across Linux, Cloud Computing, AWS, Ansible, Infrastructure Operations and DevOps fields. Some keywords about me: Open Source | Linux | SRE | Cloud Computing | AWS | GCP | Terraform | Golden VM image builder | DevOps | CI/CD | Kubernetes | Python | Go | AI coding | Monitoring Details 20+ years of enterprise-level operations and management experience, specializing in infrastructure and application operations. Expert in full-chain operations management from process standardization to implementation, with solid theoretical foundation and extensive practical experience. ...