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Joisontak...

Well that tracks with Joisontak's short testimony. Magic, politics, and esoteric nobility rules must use up too much of the brain, leaving room for little else. Well, it's maybe par for the course for political fantasy stories.

I enjoyed watching this season. The world is filled with interesting things and plot developments advance at a decent pace, it has been comfortable to tune in each week. I'm sure the royal academy will spark all sorts of fun events. I'm tempted to rush forward and read the LN's.

For this episode... why did grandpa become comically dumb for that scene? A strange bit of slapstick comedy, I suppose. It was nice to see Ferdinand and others caring for Myne. We got to see a rare sighting of an emotional outburst from Ferdinand. They did let the evil noble weasel away, but knowing this show he's eventually going to perpetrate another evil scheme, get foiled, and get his entire bloodline extinguished. And I look forward to it. If I'm following correctly, I think the use of the secret passage is the first piece of evidence that specifically indicts Georgine as assisting in the immoral schemes of the pro-Georgine nobles. I think the previous schemes could be explained as the pro-Georgine nobles working independently from Georgine. I could be wrong, forgetting something, it's not a detail that I've been tracking closely.

Also, I don't think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there's a good explanation? I don't know what they were planning to do by poisoning, but not killing, and kidnapping Myne. To be honest, I don't care about these points too much; the mechanisms of nobles in this world are strange, so I can imagine that there are many possible explanations. I enjoy the show nonetheless. The issue is that I don't know if I'm missing something that the show has already explained, or if these are intentional points of interest placed by the author, or if these are details that the author/adaptation don't really care about.

The falling and capture scene: I feel like they could've sold it better. I just thought it was a bit strange how Myne would crash but Angelica is fine, then Myne can't get to them but Cornelius could (Could make sense if everybody, including the kidnapper, normally slows down their highbeasts to match Myne's speed. Or she can't accelerate very quickly. Or I guess you could say Myne is just a klutz, that seems like the answer that the anime is selling.), then Cornelius rescues them by intercepting them feet off the ground which is somehow fine. It was just a bit too much all at once for me to take in.

Grandpa Bonifatius beats up the intruders with his bare hands, really putting the knights to shame there. It seems like the season finale next week will be high stakes high action. I'm rooting for grandpa.

Four contrarians walk into a bar. The first one says "ouch, I stubbed my toe on a chair". The second one says "there is no actual bar, because this is a joke", the third one says "no it is real, I'll have one real beer, please". The fourth one walks away.

But more seriously: yikes.

OP plays NBA 2K.

I looked it up, this episode covered about 1.3 manga chapters. (too lazy to lookup the LN/WN, though that's what I was originally going to compare) The previous episodes averaged about 2.2 manga chapters per episode (I'm assuming there was no significant divergence in content), possibly even higher if we ignore the previous episode which also had a ton of recap.

Elymas seems to be unable to use his common sense or any knowledge that he gained from living in that world for his entire life, and he purely makes his choices based on his knowledge of the game

It seems that Elymas has a realization in nearly every episode that this world does not work quite like the game works.

I see. I suspect that the Ultra Series 1 model is being treated as a previous-generation product and won't get restocked, but I could be wrong. I think if you really want, you can make an Ultra Series 1 laptop from parts. They have the chassis and the two higher end Ultra Series 1 mainboards in stock. Though at the price you might prefer to just pre-order the 13 pro.

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Maybe I don't understand, but I see it in stock and I was able to add it to my cart. Are you outside the US?

Suddenly dumdum 😔

The first thing is to do is to understand what you're looking at. Read this:

systemd-analyze blame¶

This command prints a list of all running units, ordered by the time they took to initialize. This information may be used to optimize boot-up times. Note that the output might be misleading as the initialization of one service might be slow simply because it waits for the initialization of another service to complete. Also note: systemd-analyze blame does not display results for services with Type=simple, because systemd considers such services to be started immediately, hence no measurement of the initialization delays can be done. Also note that this command only shows the time units took for starting up, it does not show how long unit jobs spent in the execution queue. In particular it shows the time units spent in "activating" state, which is not defined for units such as device units that transition directly from "inactive" to "active". This command hence gives an impression of the performance of program code, but cannot accurately reflect latency introduced by waiting for hardware and similar events.

For example: I have passphrase disk encryption (no TPM encryption), and the time I take to enter the passphrase is added to many entries in systemd-analyze blame. Here is the output of systemd-analyze blame if I wait 2 minutes to enter my disk encryption passphrase:

2min 12.640s sys-module-fuse.device
2min 12.618s sys-devices-platform-MSFT0101:00-tpm-tpm0.device
2min 12.618s dev-tpm0.device
2min 12.551s dev-ttyS0.device
2min 12.551s sys-devices-pnp0-00:00-00:00:0-00:00:0.0-tty-ttyS0.device
2min 12.550s dev-ttyS2.device
...

So, I guess my advice is that systemd-analyze blame is not always going to be a clear indicator that a particular service is holding your boot times back. The .device entries in particular probably just represent how long after boot that the device became active. And unfortunately the systemd-analyze tools do not always lead you to the underlying delay.

$ systemd-analyze critical-chain dev-tpm0.device
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

dev-tpm0.device +2min 12.618s

$ systemd-analyze critical-chain dracut-initqueue.service
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

dracut-initqueue.service +2min 11.123s
└─systemd-udev-trigger.service @770ms +158ms
  └─systemd-udevd-varlink.socket @760ms +65us
    └─system.slice
      └─-.slice

If you are trying to deal with an issue that is causing significant delays in your boot time, journalctl --boot can sometimes be helpful. For the example boot above where I waited 2 minutes before entering the disk encryption passphrase:

Jul 31 14:09:39 mycomputer kernel: Linux version 7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64 (mockbuild@9b86e96a386140128351588d751166fd) (gcc (GCC) 16.1.1 20260515 (Red Hat 16.1.1-2), GNU ld versi>
... (a lot of log lines within a few seconds, but then I find a big jump) ...
Jul 31 14:09:44 mycomputer kernel: [drm] pre_validate_dsc:1667 MST_DSC dsc precompute is not needed
Jul 31 14:11:48 mycomputer systemd-cryptsetup[551]: Set cipher aes, mode xts-plain64, key size 512 bits for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
... (and then there are a lot of log lines in the following seconds after the above line) ...

I use the streaming services' built in tracking to keep track of what episode I'm on. I use animeschedule.net for following weekly releases of airing shows. I use MAL to record when I start watching, stopped watching, rating, and tracking "plan to watch".