Sleep 0245 to 1100 (8-1/4 hours)

• MacWhisper’s last update added Nvidia’s Parakeet model. Transcribing three VODs totaling 9h 8m took 9-1/2 minutes for about 57.7x speed and normally would have taken more than hour. Transcription seems accurate too.

Sun Jun 29 2025

Sleep 0245 to 1130 (8-3/4 hours)

• Checked for Electron apps I have: find /Applications -name '*.asar' -print. It is OpenVPN and Discord.

Mon Jun 30 2025

Sleep 0530 to 1300 (7-1/2 hours)

• Ate a chicken thigh yesterday. Foot hurts today. Why is meat so yummy?
• Today still had a bit of protean — half a can of salmon, less than 4 oz.
• Actually what hurts most is my left foot achilles area. Feels very stiff and flexing it at all hurts. I can clomp around but maybe that’s doing damage.

Tue Jul 01 2025

Sleep 0630 to 1430 (8 hours)

• Foot getting worse? No meat today.

Wed Jul 02 2025

Sleep 0445 to 1045 (6 hours)

• Foot walkable but maybe getting worse slowly. Ate like 1/4 can of salmon with my meal. I’m really not setup for vegetarian. Should get some veggie pizzas; tofu and sauces (black bean or ma po tofu). Unfortunately can’t walk enough to do that.
• Nemo’s 100 hour streamathon started at 1400 PDT.
• Just realized that Silo — which I’ve often thought is a show where the unlit areas are so dark I can barely tell what’s going on watching on my iPad — is actually lit well enough on my Mac monitor that it doesn’t bother me. Most of my Apple TV+ non-sports watching is on my iPad so I hadn’t noticed it was different.
• ORCL is up to $229.98. So even after selling $50k worth (at the time) my individual stocks (the ones I can sell as everything else is 401k or Roth IRA) are worth $329k and previous high was $313k. If all it does is be stable at this price for a year I’ll be happy.

Thu Jul 03 2025

Sleep 0630 to 1200 (5-1/2 hours)

• Can walk about 80% of normal speed with a little discomfort and limp.
• Ate about 1/3rd of a chicken thigh tonight. Hope I don’t pay for it in the morning.
• More about DDO 32-bit to 64-bit migration. All accounts will (automatically) get 10 more character slots (too bad I bought some in the last sale). All accounts will get (via coupon code) 100 shared bank slots (which makes up for the extraneous character slots).

Fri Jul 04 2025

Sleep 2330 to 0730, 1430 to 1530. (9 hours)

• MacWhisper with Parakeet v2 working on a 20 GB video file (26+ hours) and it’s using 33 GB memory (My MBP M4 Pro has 24 GB memory). 17 GB swap used after I quit all other apps. Is it loading the whole video file? I thought it would just load the audio.
• Splitting it up into 6 to 8 hour segments — used VLC to export audio then Audacity to split it up — and MacWhisper tops out at about 8 GB memory. And it’s a lot faster — even taking into account the time to do audio export and splits — because going into so much swap space killed the transcription speed.
• Foot felt fine today, or at least good enough I think could go grocery shopping. Had another 1/3rd of the chicken thigh for dinner.