Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

This graph brought to you by the question of if Nintendo could do anything other than fire/grass/water starters. Answer: Yes. There is at least one other cycle in that graph: fighting beats dark beats psychic beats fighting. There are probably others, but I'd have to spend more time looking at it.

So, in case you were ever curious what it would look like, here's what it would look like if you took the matrix of what types are supereffective against what other types and interpreted it as an adjacency matrix. Honestly, this is kinda cool, if not the most useful thing out there.

Motherfucker really just went on TV to say he wants to fund public schools immediately before saying he wants to cut property taxes. Like, bitch, property taxes are the only way schools get funded in this hellhole of a state. What are you going to do? Personally rewrite the state constitution to allow income taxes? I wouldn't get my own hopes up personally given the little R you chosen to put next to your name.

He's a very good listener.

I mean, these are very imprecise ways to actually defining the two terms, but I think it gets the point across. Validity and soundness are two different things in logic!

A reminder and validity and soundness, because yes, in logic, those are two different things.

Validity means an argument checks out symbolically, basically. If it's raining, then I'm president; It's raining, therefore I'm president is valid! It's basic hypothetical syllogism. If A, then B; A, therefore B.

But it is not sound. After all, I am not president, regardless of whether it's raining. To be sound, the parts have to actually add up.

Crossword clue: Logically sound, 5 letters
Answer: Valid

This hurts me immensely.

In fun news, I now have both an OS/2 and OS X VM! Neither of these are important, and I have no real plans for either, but it is still pretty cool to have. Maybe one of these days, I'll also figure out getting a modern macOS VM up and running, but that's eluded me thus far and I don't feel like continuing to fight with it right now, so, eh 🤷‍♀️​

Good news is that one of my big reasons for not playing it on my phone just isn't a thing anymore? Probably? Like, it used to freeze up after a short time. I could do a little bit but not much before it froze. Now it doesn't. Either 3.x fixed it, or getting signature spoofing for microG fixed it, but it seems to be fixed? So, that's an option. A bit annoying to play on touchscreen, but an option when I don't want to reboot to windows.

So, bad news (eh, relatively speaking), good news (eh, relatively speaking), and fun news!

Bad news, my endeavors to get genshin running on Linux have failed. My last ditch effort was to try running genshin in bluestacks on the windows VM, but for some reason bluestacks won't download what it needs to download. So, it's all a no-go. (Though, I'm not sure genshin for android has keyboard/mouse support anyways...)

I'll be honest, at this point, I'm having to choose between my current fury over all the shit this game has going on that has stopped me at every turn from just playing the game on Linux and the fact that I otherwise enjoy this game and can always just continue running it from my dual boot as I have been.

For now, this is an issue I'm going to leave for a time when I'm not fucking furious about this bullshit.

So...
The less awful explanation would be that they just don't think a VM can be powerful enough.

But, let's face it, this is likely just the issue I had with lockdown browser but even less excusable. I mean, the existence of lockdown browser is inexcusable, but at least in theory, it has a reason to exist and not run under a VM. There should be no reason for this piece of shit game to not run on a VM.

I'm sorry, WHAT?!

I'm thinking it might've been a better idea to use one of my server 2016 product keys, but at this point, with genshin half downloaded, fuck it. Bit late now.

Remember when one of the big pieces of advice you'd get with new windows computers was "immediately do a fresh windows install to get rid of all the bloatware"?

Yeah.

Who at microsoft decided it'd be a good idea to make the bloatware a part of a clean windows install? I'd like to, uh... give them a pat on the back... with a baseball bat... violently.

Seriously, why the fuck?

Okay, current status is that I've (re)installed VMWare and have a Windows VM with 3 cores, 8 gigs of RAM and 2 gigs of VRAM. 3D acceleration fuck us a lot of stuff, but it can run 3D apps at reasonable framerate. I'll have to tweak with it some more tomorrow, but it may be my best solution.