linux

Hello, how are you doing?  I asked my housemate friend to show me linux on the house computer.  He had just installed a new version.  I really need some audacity for the radio show I’m working on.

Long ago I wanted audacity, when I was rapping and needed to edit sound files.  But audacity won’t run on a chromebook unless I put linux on it.  I read about how to do that, and it looked like a pain in the butt.

I was struggling with what to do.  Should I install linux on this old clunky chromebook?  Letters are worn off the keyboard keys.

Yeah, A, S, D, E, and R are always first to go.  I guess losing the L was the worst though, right by the colon and semi-colon.  Ming won’t even type on my computer!

The chromebook is very good at some things.  But the speakers suck big time, and the camera is terrible.  The mic is shit too.  This chromebook is the worst computer I ever had.  Yet we have been together for years in a bad relationship.

I spend hours per day on my computer–I should really get something that meets my needs.  But computer shopping is hell.  I want to get it over with as soon as possible.

options

I thought linux was a command prompt, seriously.

“I thought it would look like DOS,” I told my friend.

“Yeah, it did–about 25 years ago,” my housemate friend told me.

Wow, I’m behind the times.  It has a graphic interface like mac or windows now.  Wow, I don’t need to geek it up very much at all.

Ming bought me a flash drive of 128 gigs, so I hope I can tote around sound files easily.  I installed audacity on the house computer.  Looks like I can save in the file format I need.

I need to submit a form, plan my demo, and start recording my demo and assembling it.

equipment

At the station someone trained me on the equipment there.  I learned about how to have the mic set up horizontal with the filtery thing almost touching it.  About the sound board, cueing, which computers do which things, some little box that controls what you hear through your headphones…  The “on air” light doesn’t work anymore.  I don’t think the call in landline works anymore either.

The man who trained me was criticizing digital music harshly and mentioned he has around 1400 record albums, like that was a good thing.

“I was just homeless,” I said.  “I don’t have anything.”

Even cds feel so clunky and impossible now.  I think a lot about the spirit and the flesh, inner life and outer.  Digital sound files feel like spirit, while the album or cd is the flesh.