lily

the RTL8139 experience

(this card sucks, i really should have put a eepro100 or e1000 card into this vm but the sunk cost fallacy is too high)

what, you don't want 10 different installs of varying compiles of chromium, several of which may accidentally be old enough to have legitimate security vulnerabilities in them? heresy. to the chamber with you.

i just want back to a place where desktop programs are actually desktop programs and not poorly retooled and unoptimized SPA hellholes running in a multiple-million-LOC browser engine literally solely for "portability", because the current situation blows

now most desktop applications unless they explicitly point out they're written in some hipster language that will end up dying out, end up being piece of shit electron garbage.. yay!

at this point i want back to the java hype trend. at least swing/awt is mostly backed by native code

still salty that discord gaslit people into actually believing their piece of shit html cuisnart "desktop app" (which alongside atom started the fucking *STUPID* trend of lazy electron "desktop" apps) was lighter than skype (a basically native application, at the time discord was new)

ok i got 50% nerdsniped 50% curiousity's sake (or 100% nerdsniped in other words) and pulled out the modules out of the vmmblob and yeah it seems vapic is decidedly handled in kernel mode

I say seems because this module shit is so cursed and confusing, theres a dyld in here just for these modules

vmware ... probably? (i'm not fully sure, i've only reversed the frontend ui pieces a long time ago i've never touched the ungodly vmmon or the vmmblob) runs chipset emulation in the kernel.

KVM does this as well (and actually a few years ago entirely dropped support for userspace irqchip/apic)

userspace vm exits are "meh". for something like lpc/isa/pci device emulation its fine (and also kind of required to a degree), but vm exits to userspace for the irqchip is simply asking for all the performance to go away (back in the day QEMU would allow this, and it'd be just as awful)

hyperv is (at least to my understanding) tuned way more for paravirtualized enlightenments; windows 7 onwards takes more advantage of hyperv-specific enlightenments (and will run slower in VMs without them), so i bet the legacy irqchip emulation just isn't as prioritized anymore or is in userspace

still want to know the thought process behind this camera angle. like this guy was willingly sitting behind this fan the WHOLE set

(i am my own pot calling the kettle black in this case because i almost land in that category, but i decided for myself to snap out of that belief system and as a result i like to think i'm a little bit less kooky, but.. i never know really)

the horseshoe kind of gets easily made up of "right wingers who became far-left" on the far left which tends to explain a lot of the kookiness. the belief system which promotes conspiratorial thinking is still there. with an inability to change that it leads to the same things over there

it's also a really important reminder that though the right wing are known for being conspiracy drinking machines that almost can't get their fix, the left wing is just as susceptible to it

really anyone's susceptible to the thinking, what's important is being able to change your belief system

it's just so nonsensical that it almost becomes kind of funny in a weird grim morbid way. like this isn't some one off fringe thing, there's a worrying amount of people actually buying this shit without even thinking

like if you actually do the research you see how utterly stupid this conspiracy is

the fact the heritage foundation explored the individual mandate somehow makes a bill written and introduced by a democratic representative and pushed to signing by democrats (with one R yes in the House with the original version, and NO R yes with the Senate version) a "heritage foundation" plan.

do i even need to explain why this is the most braindead kind of lack of thought possible? just think. they never thoroughly explored it and canned it (and even though republicans tried again up until the 90s, other republican senators completely shitcanned individual mandates time and time again!!)

okay lmfao i actually did some research and this gets even stupider

the reason this conspiracy even exists is because in the 80s the heritage foundation "concepts of a plan"'d the individual mandate (without ever pushing republican reps/senators into drafting a bill with it included).. which is...

i should also add that even if the discharge petition goes anywhere aca subsidies will be cut off anyways because mike "hasatiny" johnson forced the house into recess until january.. 2026. you can think a little bit about what that means on your own

yeah. she really would have been so right-wing that she would gut tons of government agencies, sens fucking ice into dozens of cities (including most recently the city I live in) to terrorize people, and all the other terrible evil shit trump has done. yeah. definitely.

it pisses me off because demanding perfection is WHY we're here. why we're sitting here, waiting until december 31st or republican defectors on the fate of ACA subsidies (of which they'll probably end up expiring more likely than not).

b-but "COPMALA". b-but "moderate right-wing" amirite?
fuck off.

blaming democrats for even trying to create a stepping stone to fixing the fucked up healthcare system is just shooting yourselves in the foot. which i imagine is probably the name of the game for tankies and Bernouts but that doesn't make it any less fucking ridiculous

and, as much as i hate to say it, because it should be patently obvious, especially with this months looming deadline for literal ACA subsidies, the blame for almost every healthcare crisis in the last 30 something has been pretty squarely on republicans and/or happened when they were in power.

compromise isn't fun! but it's what you have to do to get what you want. if you hiss and piss around demanding perfection all day every day, everyone will rightfully clock you as bad faith and what you want will be ignored. it's tedious, it takes a long time. but compromising gets you what you want.

i will agree the ACA does suck in a few pretty big areas. but it was compromise. a step towards the "M4A" utopia everyone wants without actually detailing HOW you get there (or saying it's "JUST" that easy, which is a good way to tell if someone has no political experience and is unserious)

i think the weirdest left-wing/tankie conspiracy theory ive seen lately is that the ACA was a "heritage foundation plan" that Obama co-opted???

its like some people have fundamentally completely forgotten what compromise is and think everything is a exact good or bad with no in-betweens whatsoever

mostly because it just being me (mainly) has kind of made things slow, even with over a half decade of research and reverse engineering at this point

but i've had insane impostor syndrome about promoting it because i feel kind of unworthy of doing such a thing.

one of the largest things I've wanted to do is promote the SSX decomps (mainly ssxog, because that's the project that has the most information like compiler version, compiler flags, so on, figured out and a few source files have been almost fully matched) to get them out to a wider audience.

idk if you could even call them video essays, but more longform videos going in depth on things that I've been interested in for a very long time? idk. but i want to do something with the weird corners of information in my brain instead of just hiding it forever

obviously there's a time and place for that, but generally when I've felt the want to do such a thing it's because I already cherish it enough to feel like I'm worthy of doing such a thing, not just needlessly getting pissy for no reason