Remember the hype around brain wave synchronization through stereo headphones in the early 00s?

If these earplugs can actually get any kind of reading, it might actually work a lot better than it did back then. Knowing the current frequency of the brain waves would be really helpful in order to make the sounds resonate and synchronize the brain waves to the desired state of mind.

Potentially it can make a person feel any state of awareness between drowsy and stressed.

I would like to have that kind of control, but I also wouldn’t want anyone else to have that kind of control over anyone else’s brain frequency. Especially not in a paid product…

It’s really interesting but also very very grim.

Not officially. It was removed in 2023.

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.

One has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David. Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.

A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none give to the beggar behind the Star of David.

Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says, “My poor fellow, don’t you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren’t going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you’re sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”

The beggar behind the Star of David listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the cross and said: “Moishe, look who’s trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing.”

In my latest setup I’ve chosen to make due with what’s available for Linux. I’m not going to bridge Windows VSTs.

So I don’t mind the software, I’ll use whatever is available, but it was really the hardware issues with Windows that made me switch. I don’t want to spend another night trying to make Windows recognise my old controllers, when they all work without any issues in Linux. I need my tools to work too.

There’s a lack of linux native VSTs, but other than that my exp has been that Linux is both easier, less demanding and more stable than Windows for audio. Don’t know how it compares to Mac.

Breaking: This is what they don’t want you to see!

Rich people don’t buy those things, like jets and infrastructure. They own companies that buy those things.

I think that for an individual rich person, their personal purchases are still within the million dollar range. Luxury doesn’t come from a single purchase. It’s the cost of upkeep that really separates rich from poor.

One thing that shocked me is the price of getting an elevator in a house. It easily costs as much as a small house, but it’s the maintenance that is gross. It can cost about the same as a full time employee just to own one. It makes sense in a tall apartment building where the elevator is in constant use by many people, but for rich people who are never home and only use it maybe once a day, it’s ridiculously expensive to pay that much just to not walk a stair.

Cheese hole

That’s unbelievable. The Greeks won’t steal anybody’s jobs.

They’ll be going full China and make it a crime to deface the dear leader.

Humanistic psychology has a way to describe things in very long and broad manners that might sell a lot of books to schools, but contain very little practical information.

Also, they often use specific terms that can mean one thing in psychology but means something completely different to anyone in any other field, who have not studied the exact psychology book that they’re referencing.

It’s a lot simpler than described on wikipedia, and you do not have to discuss feelings with your co-workers.

The point of including your own feelings in the sentence is to turn to the topic away from fruitless chasing of logical arguments where there are none or they are irrelevant. It’s about taking personal ownership of the problem, so that you don’t claim that it is the other persons problem, even if they are the one who needs to do something in order to solve it.

Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?

Now that is something I’ve never thought about before and also wish I hadn’t read.

Anyway, I googled it, and hemorrhoids are actually not necessarily open wounds, and if they are, at least the blood is flowing outwards which might hinder the bacteria from getting into the blood stream. The bacteria from the asshole doesn’t survive well outside the intestines, so there’s a low risk of them crawling back up into an open wound.

However it does happen, and that could cause blood poisoning, which is potentially lethal if untreated. You’d probably want to treat it though because you’d experience severe fever and other clear signs.

I’ll achieve this knowledge in the “don’t worry about it” folder.

It’s worth reading, because it’s very factual, as in, they don’t inject any particular viewpoint or opinion into the writing, unlike some other outlets. Whether or not they chose to report on certain events over others due to bias, I do not know.

I remember them being wrong one time point though, because they reported on something chaotic that had just happened or was still happening where details were unclear.

BIG JACKET CONSPIRACY STRIKES AGAIN

Reaper is great once you get to know it. It does everything you need and more for recording and editing audio and midi (and some video).

For Linux specifically… It’s identical to the other versions, so you can download it to your current OS and try it out, if that’s what’s keeping you from switching to Linux. You don’t even need to install it.

Plugins is a different issue for Linux. Some people use Vine or such to use certain VSTis. Personally I’m on a mission to avoid that, so I only use free plugins native to Linux, and honestly, there’s not many. The stock plugins works fine, but they don’t have any fancy GUIs or particularly great default settings.

A word of caution: Reaper is very customisable. I would recommend reading at least parts of the manual to ensure that you understand how it’s “supposed” to be work before starting on some large project and trying to fit the square block into the round hole. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I’ve seen lots of support posts where people describe their projects and even the helping replies are needlessly convoluted. If you know your way around a real mixer desk, you’ll find that every combination of sends, auxs and busses are possible in Reaper, so there’s really no need to stack up hundreds of tracks and effects and whatnot to achieve basic stuff. Just like every DAW it’s easy to get lost in the routings, so it makes sense to get a well structured flow from the start. Especially because it’s soo customizable.

Reaper is very stable, which is nice for live performance. I have only had crashes from dodgy plugins in Windows.

Unrelated to Reaper, my experience is that Linux works better than Windows when you have many USB midi controllers. Both Puppy and Mint recognized my ancient hardware straight out of the installation, no matter which port I use (unlike Windows).

Mandatory:

• Danish (Native)
• English
• German
• Other Nordic languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic (as part of Danish class)

Optional:

• French
• Spanish
• Latin (mandatory on certain schools)

It only has one leg. It’s a hobby horse.

Hobby horse, eat a cake Jump around, break your leg

I’ve tried a few different distributions and yeah, it varies.

It seems logical to get Ubuntu Studio for audio, but in my personal opinion it’s kinda bloated. I’ve tried most of the included software at some point and decided that I’m not going to use it.

I’d rather have a clean simple distro and then just install Reaper for all my audio needs.

That has worked out great on both Mint and Puppy. I don’t know about Ubuntu, because it’s been several years since I tried that.

I did also install a few games on Mint, but nothing like AAA games, because the PC doesn’t have a graphics card. I just play Minecraft and Sauerbraten. No issues with those.

Maybe I’m lucky, or maybe it’s because it’s old hardware or pretty standard laptops, but I’m also not trying much, so I also expect it to work.

Keep it simple. I think that might be the key, because I have seriously not had a single issue with anything, nor have I typed a single line in the terminal.

If I needed a multipurpose PC, I’d probably go with Mint as of now. I’d install one app at a time and figure out what I actual need instead of trying to make everything work at once.

That’s what I’m doing with my DAW right now. One plugin at a time. If something doesn’t behave, then I don’t need it. When I turn on the PC to make music, I don’t want to waste time fixing stuff. I’m totally over trying to fit a square block into a round hole. I’ve already tried that for too many years using Windows.