Sunday, October 29, 2023

Johor Pay 2023

Johor Pay 2023



I am trying to help my aunt to make payment to property assessment fee in Johor, one of the electronic payment options is Johor Pay.

Sarawak Pay may have a chance of success, even if it is not, the residents are happily using it. Johor Pay has less of a chance, as Malaysia already has nationwide DuitNow QR, quite popular and accepted by many merchants. Is easier to ride on DuitNow QR rather than maintain its own payment network and platform.

Many Singaporeans came over to Johor Bahru. Johor Pay has to cater for Singaporean identification and mobile phone. When Johor Pay users go to Singapore or other states, they can't use Johor Pay, they have to use DuitNow.

The limitation of Johor Pay will limit the market expansion.

It is just my 2 cents.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

The mount point of Google drive in Chrome OS Linux

The mount point of Google drive in Chrome OS Linux

Chrome OS > File app > (right click on Google Drive) > select [ share to linux ]

From Chrome OS Linux, the mount point is:
/mnt/chromeos/GoogleDrive/MyDrive

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Get Your Own Toucn'n Go eWallet QR Code

Get Your Own Toucn'n Go eWallet QR Code



TNG eWallet > Transfer > Receive (tab)

Your QR code is displayed. Your friend can scan the code and transfer money to you.

Friday, October 06, 2023

Upgrade Raspberry Pi Desktop 2022 to Debian 12

Upgrade Raspberry Pi Desktop 2022 to Debian 12



Much older Rpi Desktop

The reason I want to upgrade the Raspberry Pi Desktop to Debian 12 Bookworm is just to try out the new Linux kernel 6. The older kernel 5, released in 2019, is about 3-4 years old.

The upgrade takes me around 4 hours on my (older) machine. After upgrading, a lot of the Raspberry Pi Desktop settings were changed, and seems slower at the first glance. My advice is not to upgrade until the official release is out for Raspberry Pi Desktop OS.

How to upgrade?

Change the APT source from Bullseye (version 11) to Bookworm (12). Bullseye and bookworm are the code name for the Debian OS version.

  
# edit /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list
eg. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free