remap caps to escape - linux mint

  vim .xmodmap in your home directory
clear Lock
keycode 66 = Escape
echo "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap" >> ~/.bashrc
  

classic vsts

Here is a list of some of my favorite 32 bit vsts that i've got running on my linux mint wine fl studio 10 /psycle setup

• bionic delay
• tape delay
• echomania
• echolive
• bionic supa delay
• Dub-station audiodamage
• junglist
• chip32
• balancespteufelberg reverb
• orilriver
• autopan modulator
• BC free amp vst
• AXP softamp FM25
• ym2612 - genesis emulator similar to genny
• vst2413 - an opll emulation sounds like yamaha pss170!
• DDX10
• unknown 64 pro
• dream 64
• minimogueVA
• juceOPL
• twinbass
• yamaha syxg50
• tromine gt
• soniccat PURITY
• basic 65
• xs 707
• tromine9
• trex 1982
• yamaha sgp2 (s-yxg2006LE)
• maxsynths DR-910
• bleep
• odo-bytes
• duet - martin eastwood
• superwave p8
• oberon
• drsid
• djmfilter
• retroplug - for hosting lsdj in fl studio
• dimension expander
• sitala
• G-clip
• Gloop
• xs-707
• genny
• nadIR
• t.rex 1982
• oxefm
• heavy5150
• super 7
• george yohng w1 limiter
• lecto
• legion
• axp softamp gt
• mobius
• dd utility - I like this for fixing LR MS mono setting gain etc
• dd channel - I like the gate eq compressor limiter combo
• camel crusher
• time machine
• tromine 8
• tromine9
• SIR convolution reverb
• modern firechainer
• modern seventh sign - antress
• tal-dub
• tal bassline
• sanford reverb
• tal tube
• loudmax limiter

junglist vst

Junglist

I love the presets on this!

free amp sims Im liking

SoftAmpFM25

cleans/light crunch

softampfm25

Ace

tweed

Ace

Lecto

rectifier

Lecto

bluecatfree

some good cleans/light crunch

bluecat free

a spotlight search like mac os on linux mint

- sudo apt install rofi - in keyboard settings,application shortcuts, - rofi -show run - set it to SUPER+Space

mac keys on linux mint with kinto

kinto on github uses xkeysnail Out of habit i would cmd c to copy on this macbook with linux mint on it and it was messing me up. I remapped caps to escape with xkeybind before and what I like about this is it has an option under tweaks to do the same * important note it doesn't seem to play nice with I3 I have to disable it when i run it with I3 that might be a deal breaker if im trying to go 100% no mouse.

guacamole - remote into your computers from the web

access your linux/windows desktops with vnc, rdp, ssh

xfce4 timer

partitioned my macbook air to reaquint with linux mint. xfce4-timer was good as a pommodoro. the trick to getting it working is you right click on the system tray panel and add it. to make it trigger sound effects i use the play command (i think that uses sox?) ## other linux software - kdenlive - shotcut - mixxx - kitty terminal - kolourpaint - pencil2d - krita - syncthing - x11 vnc server - kamoso - guvcview - flameshot - copyq clipboard manageer - qutebrowser - kazam - zathura - mpv - lmms - reaper - renoise - schism - sunvox - koala sampler

syncing files with unison

rsync is great but its unidirectional.

• synthing is bidirectional but i found out that you can't easily keep 2 folders in sync on the same computer (normally id make an alias but the folder exists on a usb drive)

my wifi router has a cool usb network storage feature where you can access the drive on the local network through smb. problem is it doesnt always stay mounted when i run the sync command.

The tool I found that works pretty great for bi-directional syncing is called unison.

brew install unison

after creating the configs i run it by typing this in the terminal

unison uke-songs

to sync my desktop ukulele songs with the usb stick mounted to the router. its cool that I can access these files from the roku tv in the 'roku file player' app

This way I can download music directly to the usb using a .zshrc alias, or download it to my desktop, drag it to the uke songs folder and sync the two.

I wasted the day on virtual machines

saw on the app store utm was at number 2 in paid apps. it was going for 12$ After recently finally putting 12$ down on ibis paint (well worth it to stop the adds). in my case, on my i5 4gb of ram 2015 macbook air running virtualized oses didn't work. I think utm is really just for m1 silicon. unfortunately trying to get xp took way too long. ubuntu was really laggy. linux mint wasnt too bad. the debian 10 image with lightbox and i3 seemed promising untill i saw the terminal was modded to be white. Its been a long time since ive had to edit i3 configs i forget everything. i used i3 gaps which was a fork that wasn't compatible with regular i3.

linux mint xfce was nice i was hoping to be able to have it run along side mac os instead of booting into it

image to code

now that gpt4 is public you can use its image processing. Some guy made a gpt specifically for converting images to a different web frameworks include image placeholders.

go full page chrome extension this tool is usefull for capturing a a long page.

image to code gpt

I like to use google sites to build sites and then use these tools to convert them.

Before was thinking about ussing httrack to copy all the assets and use some flexbox generator to help restructure my divs but I knew there had to be a better way.

Hunter S thompsons Routine

I often end up becoming a night person. I like to sleep in. I like to stay up late. proper sleep is important. Often I feel most like myself, most alive past midnight. thats when I feel like its time to be active and to live. It feels horrible to force myself to sleep when I get that feeling. I don't ever want to sleeping pills to force myself to sleep. I like being able to video chat with people on the other side of the world in Australia and feel like a normal person.

I biked to Oakville its a long bike ride but I don't feel like the bike ride hasn't begun until an hour deep. When you forget you have legs when you start to think you have wheels for legs. Thinking about the up rotation, the down rotation. Balancing the toe pull back with hamstring pull down motion when pedaling. When the mind shifts from everything else to focus solely one the most efficent way to pedal to minimize the burn that starts building up in the hamstrings. At first thats all you know; Pedaling, by pushing down. Once you realize the micro changes you can make to optimize your biking its like realizing you have a second pair of lungs. (birds have a second pair of vocal chords).(cows have multiple stomachs [mooing like a cow is great you should try it, the M and N sounds resonate in your head the most MM MMMmmm, helps strengthen your vocal chords and find the resonance]).

When people gamble sometimes they say "the house wins". I remember I was working with this guy who said every day you wake up, just getting out of bed it costs you 20 dollars once you leave your house.

Every time you give in to the temptation to eat out or impulse pay for conveniences its like you gambled on yourself and lost. The house wins.

One time I worked with this company and the boss guy would take a whole loaf of bread and make peanut butter sandwitches with it and eat it all week and bring us sandwiches. (and he put it down on site and some guy stole the bag). At first I thought it was kind of hardcore but its really what you need to do if your out working to make money.

I Liked temping because I would always be working in new parts of the city and I would eat out in a new restaurant for lunch. at the time to me it was worth it but yeah the $ adds up. Working with the peanut butter guy taught me the importance of packing a lunch.

When I went on my long bike ride I didn't eat much all day, I was eying this shawarma place but it pissed me off it was self checkout and it said they only take credit, left that for wendys and it was closed drive through and skip only. Nothing else was open in oakville. I felt like I was so smart biking down because last time I was at the mercy of the go train, the time before that I tried taking the bus + train combo in winter and it pissed me off so much for how long it took and cost. Thought I was beating the system by biking but forgot that everything closes so early in oakville. I refused to be defeated by oakville. The house will not win.

Feasted when I got home and slept all day. I needed to do that bike ride. A short bike ride just wouldn't do it. I can't sit infront of computers for hours and think properly. Blood needs to flow. I want to make music, music needs to be made with people. The best thing i can do alone is practise the skills but its not the same as the real thing. The real thing involves going out into the world. I can't properly sleep if I dont get enough exercise. It usually isnt enough to binge watch and binge eat till passing out. Some people do it, some people reccomend it. I don't like it. To me what I find the most fullfilling is getting enough activity in during the waking hours to be drained.

I remember seeing something somewhere about your body getting used to burning calories if you are very active when your younger your body doesn't adapt as well to a sedentary life, you kind of get physically addicted to it. My personal experience from working labour jobs and biking alot, it was a grind but I slept pretty well, whereas other times when I sat around alot on computers usually find it harder to sleep.
With that in mind, to me I feel like its not just me wanting to do a bike ride but I need to do it so I can properly experience the next day.

Looking back on it. It felt amazing. It rained the day after and I slept all day. I ran out of my lavazza 5/10 intensity coffee. excited to finally try the Balzacs coffee I got a while back from my birthday. Im thankfull I got to sleep so much and recover and then later into the night enjoy a cup of coffee after feasting. a couple days ago i was getting up around 1. when its cloudy and rainy I dont see much point waking up.

Im glad I got out when I did for that bike ride. Im glad I got to get out and get as much sun as I did early in the week.

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3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
8:00 Halcyon
8:20 sleep

I like how he would wake up at 3pm. I too like to eat grapefruits.

Song Analysis - Positions - Ariana Grande

4 bar intro

• vs pc chorus all 8 bar chunks
• v pc c again but double chorus
• 16 bar bridge
• hits you with another 2x chorus
• 8 bar outro

chords are
Dm Am Bb Gm