Is Hongville a sign of things to come in Hong Kong?

I came across a post on HKGolden, around the time when protests against national education in Hong Kong was in full swing. It was written as a fiction, but so many real life topics, incidents and phenomenons have been covered, and knowing the current state of things in mainland China, even the fictional or future part of the essay sounds plausible.

It was so insightful I decided to attempt a translation for sharing. Feel free to pass this along. Translation after first break. Some references, copyright terms and source after the translation.

Do you want to see Hong Kong becoming the Hongville thus described? I don't. If you do not come out, speak out, and take a stand against things you think are wrong now, while you still can, it may be too late when you personally become subject of these wrongs.

Music to the Ears of Computational Libertarians Like Me - Dell Gives Linux Laptops Another Chance

My HP tx1000 laptop died. I figured its northbridge may have unseated itself once again. Having already done the heat gun reflow trick on it once, I should now look at a replacement laptop.

This post at TechCrunch made me cheer.

If this Windows-less Dell XPS13 does come to fruition, I am definitely getting one.

I hate the way Microsoft does its things, I hate UEFI secure boot being made essentially mandatory, and I like having the choice to put whatever I want on my laptop.Not to mention I don't like paying for something that I don't use.

By the way, I posted a Chinese translation of the TechCrunch post above (translated by yours truly) on HKGolden.