15 july 2021
Had a pretty good day today! Spent time with a friend and worked on configuring our spare laptop some more to optimize for using its touchscreen. We also started repairing and refreshing their stuffed animal, who hasn't been washed in almost two decades and really needed some help. It looks so much nicer even with just a quick handwashing. There's purple under there!
Not much else to report for today. Been a good mental health day and we're feeling pretty good. Hopefully this weekend we'll be able to get a lot done; planning to play with virtual machines some more and see how much we can learn about Windows (ugh) by screwing with it and poking around. We're going to need to know it well at some point if we want to go compsci, so might as well start now, especially when we're starting basic compsci classes in the fall that are needed to get to the more difficult ones. Not expecting to learn a ton from the basic ones, but you never know!
Anyone have tips to make Windows not godawful slow in a VM? It's been obnoxiously slow so far. Still usable, but annoying even though it has plenty of resources to work with. Maybe we're missing something obvious that would help. Using KVM and virt-manager iirc.