Today I went to Oakland.
Sleeping Schedule Problems
These days I am having sleeping schedule problems. I was completely out of sleeping control.
I mean, I almost adjusted things to the right place this weekend, after sleeping and getting up normally at Saturday. Then my computer broke down after purging libdev-dev, which was ChatGPT's advice for me to debug, and I suffered a minor broke down too.
When I was young it seemed like night was an end to a day, but now sometimes I just don't want to sleep at night.
I would usually try staying up for 30 hours to adjust my schedule, but it would just bounce right back after a few days. I would often reach no answers when pondering basic philosophical questions. And I thought again and again my plan to move to north Europe or Alaska.
Thinking about Buying Another Computer
Last night I was thinking about buying another computer to try on gentoo and possibly build lfs, since I don't want my computer to broke down again. I need to use my computer on a daily basis and modifying the BIOS settings and doing stuff may cause problems. I looked for laptops on Amazon but they are not satisfactory. I want to use the new pc to play with maybe gentoo and arch and lfs and blfs.
I don't need much of sound, voice, display resolution, touchscreen, mouse, operating system, additional keyboard features, much storage space, any additional repairing stuff, or any crappy Microsoft services.
I need a big screen(15.6 inch at least), high processing CPU and large RAM(at least 16gb), and no hardware problems.
I tried searching on Amazon but it seems pretty expensive, and the cheaper ones are not trustworthy. Pinebook (220 dollars) seems fine except for it's 4gb ram, and in the end I thought System76 is a good choice, but it was like around 1000 to 1500 dollars, a little too expensive for me.
Going to Oakland
I was fully frustrated and decided to go out to do something but try make it short, and walked to Bart station. I stepped on the first Bart Train that came, and it is going to San Francisco. I don't want to go to San Francisco,so I decided to go to Oakland.
I first got off the Bart train at West Oakland. West Oakland looked very rundown indeed, and the streets are ugly and dirty. There aren't a lot of people around.
7th Street
Then I tried walking along 7th street and went to Market Street, and it began to look much nicer. There is a school on Market Street and a KFC.
Eating in KFC
Then I thought that I haven't seen any KFC here in US, but a lot of Mac Donald's. But KFC is very much popular is Shanghai indeed. And I was a little melancholy when I thought about Shanghai. Then I went in KFC to eat.
The servant at KFC isn't very smart, and it took her a long time to understand what I am saying, and she couldn't get words straight. Also the food is very expensive.
Melancholy and Thinking of Home
… Away from home, away from home
Away from home, away from home
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home
… Not a shirt on my back
Not a penny to my name
Lord, I can't go back home this ole way
When the seas and mountains fall
And we come, to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
Calling me there
I will go there
And back again
Market Street
Then I walked around Market Street and it was very nice, to the point where I wouldn't mind living here actually. There are some geese in a park, and the streets are lined with beautiful trees and wide pavement. The houses are also pretty beautiful.
Homeless Camps
Then I further walked north to 23rd street, and everything became dirty after that point. There are a lot of homeless people camping right on the streets, which disgusted me.
Then I walked east to San Pablo Avenue, and it was so dirty. The streets are lined with homeless camps on San Pablo avenue, and smelled of pee and stink. I was very much annoyed indeed.
Then I started running a little bit, and I run till Telegraph avenue. There are a million homeless people on the streets along the way, and all garbage from clothes to dumped foods. There are people with obvious physical problems standing in the middle of streets.
Downtown Oakland
After walking a while on Telegraph Avenue things got better, and there are many tall buildings on each way, so I reckoned it was like downtown. It is kind of like San Francisco, but the streets weren't clean.
Conclusion
Anyways Oakland it not a good place I think. The west part of the Market street was decent, but overall this crappy place is so bad.