site: reviews — Shanling M0 Pura, Lunacy, Lai Tak Tsuen Estate (graduate from finds)

Three graduations, and the fact-check earned its keep on every one.

Shanling M0 Pura (music): the 250mW balanced figure needs an adapter Shanling
sells separately — out of the box it is 100mW, on a single 3.5mm jack. The
'cannot stream' pitch holds (no Wi-Fi, no apps) but the review declines to sell
the myth: Bluetooth-receiver mode will happily play your phone's Spotify. Read
alongside the existing Zenteek review — the same argument with a battery in it.

Lunacy (play): runs the original unmodified After Dark module, not a
reimplementation — confirmed. Corrects the find's attribution of More After
Dark to Apple (it was Berkeley Systems) and disambiguates Jeff Halter, who made
Lunacy, from Ben Haller, who wrote Lunatic Fringe in 1991. Ships no game data;
you supply your own copy. Same developer as the Stacks HyperCard player, which
is the actual story.

Lai Tak Tsuen Estate (places — new category): the find was substantially wrong
and both it and this morning's bundle have been corrected in place. Not two
1975 towers but four cylinders across two twin-cylinder blocks, completed 1976.
And access is not 'a guard checks resident cards' — there are coded gates and
posted notices prohibiting entry and photography, put up because the Ghost in
the Shell shoot turned a residential estate into a backdrop. The bundle no
longer invites anyone through the gate, and this is emphatically not the pick.

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@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
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 name: "Lai Tak Tsuen Estate"
-subtitle: "Twin 1975 towers built around a dizzying open-air circular atrium"
+subtitle: "Four 1976 concrete drums, each hollow to the sky"
 date: 2026-07-14
 shortlist: true
 link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lai-tak-tsuen"
 linkText: "atlasobscura.com"
 source: "Atlas Obscura"
+promotedTo: lai-tak-tsuen-estate
 topics: [travel-and-places, design-and-art]
 tags: [hong-kong, public-housing, architecture, film-location]
-description: "Two 1975 Hong Kong public-housing towers in Tai Hang built around open-air circular atria that run unobstructed from the ground-floor courtyard to the sky, doubling as a filming location in Ghost in the Shell (2017)."
+description: "A Hong Kong Housing Society estate in Tai Hang whose two twin-cylinder blocks enclose four open-air atria running the full 27 storeys to the sky — a Ghost in the Shell (2017) location that is also, firmly, someone's home."
 ---
 
-Two nearly identical 1975 public-housing towers in Tai Hang, each built around an open-air circular atrium that runs unobstructed from the ground-floor courtyard to the sky — stand in the middle and look straight up, and the ring of balconies spirals into a dizzying, almost hypnotic pattern. The cylindrical design made it a natural fit for the sci-fi look of Ghost in the Shell (2017), which filmed a scene in the atrium. It's still a lived-in Housing Society estate with a guard checking resident cards at the entrance, so visitors are limited to the ground-floor courtyard and should keep noise and camera use to a minimum — it's someone's home, not an attraction.
+Two of Lai Tak Tsuen's blocks are twin cylinders — a pair of joined concrete drums apiece, four in all — and each drum is hollow, its 27 storeys of access balconies ringing an open-air atrium that runs uninterrupted to the sky. The shape was not a flourish: announced in 1969 and delayed three years by a landslide on the steep Tai Hang slope, the drum packs flats onto a small hillside footprint while giving a deep plan its own light-and-air well. It was finished in 1976 by the Hong Kong Housing Society, and it is still full of people who live there — coded gates and posted notices now prohibit entering or photographing the blocks without permission, put up precisely because the *Ghost in the Shell* (2017) shoot and the photographers who followed it turned a residential estate into a backdrop. The view up the drum is extraordinary. It is also not yours to walk into.

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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ shortlist: true
 link: "https://morphing.cloud/lunacy/"
 linkText: "morphing.cloud"
 source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
+promotedTo: lunacy
 topics: [macos-apps, history-and-archives]
 tags: [game, screensaver, retro, free]
 description: "A native Swift player that runs Lunatic Fringe, the interactive After Dark space-shooter screensaver from the early '90s, unmodified on modern macOS."

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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ8HXF48"
 topics: [music-and-sound, gadgets-and-toys]
 tags: [audio, dac, hi-res, no-streaming]
 description: "A matchbox-sized dedicated music player with dual Cirrus Logic DACs, a microSD slot for ripped files, and no streaming apps at all."
+promotedTo: shanling-m0-pura
 ---
 
 Two Cirrus Logic CS43131 DACs drive a fully balanced output — up to 100mW single-ended or 250mW balanced into 32 ohms — inside a body that weighs 35.8g and measures 43.8 x 45 x 13.8mm. There's no Spotify, no app store, nothing to subscribe to: music comes from a microSD card (up to 2TB) loaded with ripped CDs or FLAC files, over a USB-DAC connection, or via two-way Bluetooth 5.0 with LDAC and aptX. A 650mAh battery rates 9.5 hours of continuous playback on the 1.54-inch touchscreen.