Choosing my life insurance - part 2

I recently decided to get life insurance (収入保障保険), but I couldn’t complete the sign-up online. This is the second part of this story, so I recommend reading part 1 first.

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How to get root access to a Buffalo LS720D NAS

I recently got myself a Buffalo LS720D NAS, thanks to furusato nozei. I looked into how to get root access to it, and it seems like an older method still works now.

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Setting up Ichijo's Cloud HEMS, and connecting it to Home Assistant

We added most of Ichijo’s smart home (HEMS) options to our house and in this post I’ll review how I set them up, and connected them to Home Assistant.

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House prices are different from other things

We recently built a house in Tokyo, and it made me reflect on how house prices are different than prices of other goods.

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Miscellaneous expenses while building our home in Tokyo

We bought land in Tokyo two years ago and finished building our house in November last year. I wrote about the cost of the house already but there were some other miscellaneous expenses related to the house construction. I will cover these now.

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