Well that’s interesting.

Finally after a very long wait VMWare released a version of Fusion that downloads appropriate files, then creates a functional ISO image of the ARM version of Windows 11. 

That’s a lot of techno babble.

What it means is that there are two version of Windows. One runs on the familiar Intel processors and the other runs on ARM design processors.

VMWare is a well known application or more properly a suite of applications that allow you to virtualize a computer. The practical upshot of this is you can have multiple instances of a computer operating system running on a single hardware platform.

So if you needed to, for example, test a new bit of software on Windows 7, 8, 10, and Red Hat Linux, and perhaps some flavor of UNIX. You wouldn’t need to have 6 dedicated computers, nor would you have to manage loading each operating system sequentially on a single machine for each testing run. Instead you could use virtual instances of each OS simultaneously, limited only by memory and the speed / capabilities of the Processor of the host system.

Often this kind of thing is run on powerful servers during automated testing and for manual testing you have a client that allows you to create or use an instance of the operating system(s) under test on your local machine without having to flush your local machine’s native operating system. You can even have 2 or 3 operating systems running at once for comparison sake and logging purposes.

VMWare Fusion is an application I’ve used for years to enable my Mac to run Windows, Linux, and even other versions of the Mac OS. It’s slick and efficient. 

When I made the leap to Apple Silicon, things got a little more interesting. When Apple was running Intel processors VMWare just loaded the intel version of Windows or whatever and off you went. 

Apple Silicon changed all that. While I really like Apple Silicon for it’s speed, power efficiency, and God knows it’s nice to not have fans screaming all the time when the processor is under a load, Apple Silicon looks like an ARM (RISC) processor. Which makes compatibility with some software a bit more problematic.

It’s funny because Apple has come full circle. The old PowerPC processors Apple used to use, were RISC processors too. They were, in many ways faster than comparable Intel chips for some functions. They too sometimes  had compatibility issues with some applications that were ported from other hardware.

6 – 8 months ago, I downloaded and compiled an ARM version of Windows 11, then created the ISO and loaded it into VMWare Fusion. I didn’t like the resultant Windows OS and it was very “twitchy”. So after fiddling around a bit I deleted the image and went on with my life.

I noticed on Sunday that my VMWare installation had updated. I got curious, and fired it up. It threw some errors because it was looking for the Windows install. I resolved those errors and was presented with a nice clean dialog box offering to download and install Windows 11. 

Okay, no skin off my nose. So I told the system to do it.

I should state upfront I really hate Windows.

VMWare Fusion did exactly what it said it was gonna do. It downloaded a copy of Windows 11, it compiled it and saved it as an ISO image that I could burn to CD or store in another fashion.

Then It fired up a standard Windows setup and directed me to the ISO image stored on my computer. Boom! In about 30 minutes start to finish I had a functional, stable, Windows 11 installation.

I’m not thrilled with Windows 11 itself, but having a copy to screw around with is useful for me. I can catch up knowledge wise to the latest version, and if by some miracle I get an actual new job. I won’t have to purchase another computer.

Unfortunately, I can’t run anything less than Windows 11 on this computer / VMWare combination. So if I have to do a bunch of testing on previous versions of Windows, I’ll have to get an intel system.

Sunday brought some neat advances. As I said I still don’t like Windows 11 and I’m even more annoyed at Microsoft.

I put into their search dialog, “How do I purchase Windows licenses?”

I still haven’t found a way to just purchase the license. I did find that Microsoft is apparently selling PCs on their website. So what are you Microsoft? Are you a sofware vendor or are you a PC retailer? 

All I need is the 16 digit license bullshit. I don’t need a PC, I don’t need a USB Stick with an Intel only version of Windows on it, I just want to send you money and in return you send me the code.

My God! Why do these people insist on complicating the simplest things? Thank goodness, I don’t need to find out how to jerk off from the Microsoft Web Site. My balls would have exploded and I’d still be looking for the appropriate information.

Apple, don’t get all smug… Your website is becoming shitty too. 

Here we Go Again!

China has created a COVID variant that is more deadly than the previous version. 20X more deadly supposedly. I suppose that means it’s only likely to kill humans 4% of the time or some such. What none of the fear mongering articles answer is does previous COVID-19 exposure and recovery, confer immunity to this particular variant.

China is apparently dealing with some respiratory disease that they claim is not covid but is widespread enough that some of their cities are still operating under covid protocols.

But that doesn’t matter!

Chinese folks are traveling the world for the Lunar New Year. 

Ya know folks… We’ve seen this movie before.

Let’s see:

Disease that causes China to enact quarantine protocol for some cities. CHECK

Election Year in the United States where one candidate is a threat to Chinese hegemony, and the other is a useful empty shell that can be commanded to dance. CHECK

Billions of Chinese travelers flying all over the world like dandelion seeds perhaps carrying the new contagion. CHECK

Bioweapons are expressly prohibited by treaty. The 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of biological weapons. A supplementary convention was adopted in 1972 that apparently expanded the rules to prevent weasel-wording your way out of having created a bio-weapon.

In other words folks, we’ve known for almost 100 years that biological weapons were a SUPER BAD Idea. Yet, the Chinese military and other militaries around the world are still fucking around with them. 

Biological weapons disseminate disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants. They can be deadly and highly contagious. Diseases caused by such weapons would not confine themselves to national borders and could spread rapidly around the world. The consequences of the deliberate release of biological agents or toxins by state or non-state actors could be dramatic. In addition to the tragic loss of lives, such events could cause food shortages, environmental catastrophes, devastating economic loss, and widespread illness, fear and mistrust among the public.

That’s from the UN office for Disarmament Affairs 

I’ve highlighted in blue an interesting passage right from the top of the page.

Not that the UN has any power other than the power to insult or demean Western countries specifically the United States over past transgressions, while member countries castigating the West, are currently engaging in those same activities. Slavery, paging Slavery, Women’s rights, paging Women’s rights. Border enforcement, paging border enforcement…

I personally think the United States should end its affiliation with the United Nations. I think the UN building in New York should be reconfigured as migrant housing, and the United Nations should be asked to relocate to Geneva, or The Netherlands, or a sinking cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic. I really don’t care, as long as these fuckers are off American Soil.

As I’ve said before, I think that if the UN wants to involve the United State Military to solve a dispute, they should pay for our services UP FRONT. Or… they can offer us useful natural resources and commit their non-combatants to farming, mining, or refining those resources. They treat our Military like mercenaries, WE SHOULD BE PAID like mercenaries.

I digress.

The United Nations, like the World Health Organization, is pretty much owned by China. Neither of these organizations are any more interested in the well being of The West, specifically the United States, than Ghingis Khan would be (or the World Economic Forum is). The sooner we understand and accept this simple fact the better off we’ll all be.

For those of you who may have failed English, here’s the simple version:

UN, WHO, WEF, China… ALL ENEMIES. They be bad for us n shit.

The highlighted text should sound very familiar. We’ve lived it over the past three to four years.

Now coincidentally, we have the WEF and the WHO and UN all talking about the “Hypothetical” Disease X [dum dum duuuummm]. Interesting that they’re talking about it and supposedly making plans to “combat” it, while China is apparently building it, and quite possibly, using their people to spread it, world wide.

It would be simple… All the Chinese folks going through security checkpoints or disease checkpoints at airports get spritzed with whatever contagion, They’re not sick when they leave, they’re not sick when they arrive at their destination.

They get sick while they’re on holiday in whatever country they’ve decided to visit contaminating the locals and voila, the desired country is decimated, or if China is really lucky “Cleansed” entirely of the vermin who disagreed with their politics.

We’ve all gotten used to security checkpoints at airports, we’d think nothing of stepping into or through a “Scanner” would we?

The CCP could even use their citizen’s destination as a method to target specific countries. It’s evil beyond belief, but as they say you’ve gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. The same is true of global conquest. So you kill a few hundred thousand of your own people. Big deal!

If their deaths killed millions of your enemy it’s a good trade off. Those of your own who died are “Heroes of the cause”, right? The State can build monuments to their sacrifice and make annual speeches about their dedication to the cause for decades, if not centuries.

Isn’t that how mass murderers and genocidal maniacs justify their actions?

I truly hope that I’m wrong, and that China won’t use a bioweapon to interfere in our election process. (Again?) but the pattern seems just a little too close. March 11th 2020 was when the WHO declared COVID-19 a WorldwidePandemic. March 11th 1918 was the Influenza pandemic a bit over 100 years prior. I’m not going to be surprised to hear the WHO declare March 11th, 2024 a Disease X pandemic. 

When some people with rudimentary education in science (real science) say, “Wait, pandemics usually only happen every 100 years or so.”

The response will be, “MORON CLIMATE CHANGE has accelerated the cycle. Now you dumb science deniers shut up and get to the back of the fucking bus! We must pray to Sol. Perhaps the sun god will charge our bus enough to deliver you to the work camp.”

Those who question the narrative will be immediately and possibly permanently silenced, (aside from a recording of Bumbling Joe Biden explaining, “You’re being shot because corn pop uhhh well I’m a working guy from scranton, and uhh, uhhh, uhhh, white supremacy!” ) Then momentary M-16 fire.

The Media will say it’s, “For the Greater Good, and our Safety and Security.

Thus ends The Republic. With not even a whimper heard in the darkness.

As I said, I really hope I’m wrong. But the similarities in the set up are spooking even a nasty asshole like me!

83 Million Dollars?

DAMN!

E. Jean Carroll

You know, that woman touched my PP! It was while I was visiting New York several years ago, I don’t remember the exact year.

She reached down my pants and grabbed my penis and testicles. She asked me if I wanted to fuck a sexy woman like her?

When I said “no” she became abusive and bruised my penis trying to dig her fingernails into the shaft.

She doesn’t handle rejection well.


The above didn’t happen. But it’s equally as believable as anything E Jean Carroll said about her encounter with Donald Trump.

For a cut of 83 million dollars, I’d swear the above fiction did happen and that she was abusive during an uninvited sexual advance initiated by her.

I know it sounds terrible, but I can’t help but think this woman saw an opportunity to cash in, the court system and a New York jury allowed her to do it.

I also think that this whole mess is beyond unfair and a miscarriage of justice.


I doubt that she’s ever going to see a dime of the 83 Million. It’s going to be tied up in appeals for years. Ultimately I hope that the conviction is overturned and that Carroll has to pay Donald Trump for all the hassle she caused him.

Is it just me? Or do other people argue with Siri?

I wasn’t even trying to argue with Siri. I didn’t ask Siri for anything!

Suddenly Siri answered a question that I hadn’t asked.

I was talking to the dog Jesse and apparently Siri thought “Jesse “ sounded enough like Siri that it needed to respond.

I told Siri to shut the fuck up. Then Siri got mouthy with me saying “I wont respond to that.”

Excuse me??? Dumb shit, you DID just respond to that! Gee Siri you’re not too bright for a computer are you?

Siri: “I found some results on that, I can display them for you if you ask from your iPhone.”

Okay, Now I’m curious. I pick up my iPhone I ask Siri to display the results

The little Siri indicator on my iPhone was moving like it does when it’s listening so obviously Siri knew I was using the iPhone.

BUT and this is a serious BUG as far as I’m concerned. The HomePod also heard what I said and told me again it could display the result if I asked using my iPhone.

WTF????

I pressed the side button on my iPhone which manually activates Siri and asked again. Again the HomePod responds and tells me to ask from my iPhone.

Do you notice the endless loop here?

I try again, this time whispering to my iPhone like Creepy Joe Biden trying to sound threatening. Again the HomePod responds.

I leave the living room and go into the bathroom once again pressing the button on the iPhone and whispering my request.

The HomePod minis in the bedroom hear me and tell me to ask from my iPhone

FUCK!!!!!

Now I’m pissed and call Siri a piece of shit. I ask what happened to Siri automatically showing results on my nearest devices with displays, like the iPad and iPhone? It used to do that without question.

Siri: “Oh you’ve lost your iPad let me make it make a sound.”
Me: No! Stop! Don’t make a sound on my iPad!

Siri completely ignores me and OH, just to be EXTRA helpful Siri plays the sound on the iPad and keeps playing it. I pressed the power button and both the volume buttons. The iPad even with physical confirmation that the unit was in the hands of a human KEEPS making an annoyingly loud sound.

I force restarted the damn machine!

Is this what we have to look forward to? Is this our future? Will I be subjected to Siri misbehaving and refusing to comply with command directives?

I know Siri is just a clever approximation of AI. I don’t really like “Intelligent” assistants, on my phone or when I’m “ON the Phone” talking to a corporation to get assistance with their product or service.

I’d love to know why I, an adult male, who speaks English natively can’t get these systems to respond in any helpful way. It begs the question for me; am I the only person who has trouble with these bits of software? Is it that I speak English with little to no accent? If I spoke with a heavy accent would I get better response?

If I’m not the only person having problems with these systems, the why are they ubiquitous?

Siri does often work for me. But when Siri screws the pooch it’s major. The most recent iteration of Siri also has a defect in its responses.

If you’re using the Siri American voice 1, and you say “Siri stop playing music in 2 hours,” Siri responds “Stopping in two hours.” But unlike in the past, it now finishes the word “Hours” as though it’s asking a question. It used to sound proper, but the latest HomePod update has done something bad to the Voice responses.

Not to bash on Apple, but I do expect that testing would be done to make sure that the software works when that software interfaces with an actual Human.

I’ve been wanting to try this for fun

A trip inside my twisted brain while I’m reading headlines.

 

EXCLUSIVE: MTG SAYS KEMP HAS THE ‘POWER’ TO CRIMINALLY PROBE WILLIS
Isn’t that called Rape, why does he need power? That woman is desperate enough she paid for it didn’t she?

HUNTER BIDEN TO SIT FOR CLOSED-DOOR DEPOSITION
They’ll have to close and lock that door otherwise he’ll run away during questioning. I’d suggest a car battery attached to his balls via jumper cables, but as kinky as he is that’s probably just a normal Tuesday night. 

TODAY: MARCH FOR LIFE IN FRIGID D.C.
If D.C. is frigid do they really have a problem with abortion? Perhaps marching for life in Atlanta, Chicago, or Detroit would have more of an impact. I never really thought of D.C. as frigid, that place is absolutely chock full of whores, there are lobbyists who would perform anilingus on Maxine Waters for a dollar.

IS BLINKEN EVIL, OR JUST CLUELESS?
Blinken is worse than either of these alone. He’s clueless but thinks he’s smart and wants to be Dr. Evil

BIDEN CO-CHAIR: DEMS HAVE SHIFTED ON BORDER BECAUSE IT’S SO BAD
In other words, they’re figuring out their cushy jobs are on the line in the next election.

‘U.S. IN DEEP FREEZE WHILE MUCH OF THE WORLD IS EXTRA TOASTY? YET AGAIN, IT’S CLIMATE CHANGE’
Nah, it’s not climate change. All the MEN in the US just turned the A/C on, trying to cool our tempers, and our balls.

EU Illegal Migration to Continue to Increase in 2024, Will Play Major Factor in Parliament Elections: Report
Yep, the actual citizens of the EU countries being overrun will be voting for anti-immigration candidates.

NATO: Next 20 Years Not ‘Hunky Dory’ and Public Needs to Prepare Itself to Survive ‘The First 36 Hours’ of War
Hmm. The past 3 years of wars haven’t been Hunky Dory, and they’re just now getting around to mentioning preparedness

DOJ Finds ‘Cascading Failures of Leadership’ in Uvalde Police Response to Robb Elementary Shooting
WOW! Isn’t that a case of the Porta-Potty calling the Gas Station toilet filthy?

Rep. Correa: Mayorkas Is Doing ‘Good’ Despite Fentanyl and Border Failures
I really would like to know Rep. Correa’s level of standards. Or how much he got paid and by whom to say that. Or just how much Fentanyl he snorted prior to making this statement.

Dem Rep. Smith: ‘Open Door’ on Asylum Claims Is Hurting My District in Washington
Uh Huh, The property values are dropping like a stone in Rep. Smith’s district. 

‘Massive’ Layoffs Spur Friday Walkout at Far-left L.A. Times
Hmm. If the LA Times has a walkout and there’s no LA Times article with byline about it, did it happen? The walkout will spare us their drivel for a day and make the executive’s jobs easier. They can just lay off everyone not doing their job. First though you’d have to be able to define what the LA Times produces as actual work for pay. I tend to think of their output as cow shit with glitter sprinkled on top.

Usually after I’ve read the headlines and thought snarky things, I’ll go ahead and read some of the articles. They’re nothing like what I imagined, but at least going into them I know they can’t be as bad as I first imagined…

Usually they’re worse!

Have a Great Saturday!