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I have an expression that I like to use for situations like these. Actually, as with many of my expressions, it's an expression that I like to use for near-as-I-can-tell any situation at all, but it seems extra fitting here: "I'm not sure what I expected, but I definitely got it". And so it seems to be now. You see, about ten months ago, I ordered a very bizarre, very Chinese laptop, with the intention of using it as my primary machine, and two weeks ago, at long last, it finally arrived. It's very weird, and I love it -- especially now that I've spent a week hacking on it to make it work. And I don't know how my life always seems to go this way, but for the second time in recent memory, I now find myself in a WeChat thread with the ODM of a piece of hardware that I have, making heavy use of machine translation to ask questions like "so, how much current does is this inductor rated for, anyway?".

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