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Titlecase recipe in transnomino.com
last convert file make sure to check Re (Regular Expression)
Wanted to see if brew update ffmpeg to 8.0 had whisper but it doesn't. Expecting users to compile their own version of ffmpeg would be more difficult than it is to compile whisper.cpp

ffmpeg version 8.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)
configuration: --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/8.0 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags='-Wl,-ld_classic' --enable-ffplay --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libaribb24 --enable-libbluray --enable-libdav1d --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libjxl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librav1e --enable-librist --enable-librubberband --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libsoxr --enable-libzmq --enable-libzimg --disable-libjack --disable-indev=jack --enable-videotoolbox --enable-audiotoolbox --enable-neon

As you can so there is no --enable-whisper plus according to the https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#whisper-1 it only outputs srt and not vtt so useless to me.
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Dune Sandworm]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
},
"[Dune Spice Vision]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
},
"[Dune Salusa Secundus]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation",
"entity.other",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#A4B07E"
}
}
]
}
},
default system apps on Mac OS 15.x (Sequoia) to delete

hold down power button till see options, Utilities, Terminal
csrutil disable
csrutil authenticated-root disable
reboot

after rebooting
mkdir -p -m777 ~mount
mount


look for / (root disk) ..mine is /dev/disk3s1s6

when mounting remove the s6 (the last one)
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk3s1 ~/mount
cd ~/mount/System/Applications/
ls

I'm gonna get rid of most..as I just don't use them.
sudo rm -rf ~/mount/System/Applications/Books.app/
forgot to get rid of Image Playground and possibly Find My
sudo bless --mount ~/mount/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot


if on Intel mac instead of holding down Power button to enter Recovery Mode holding down Cmd+r and use --folder instead of --mount
sudo bless --folder ~/mount/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot

now the apps are gone after rebooting....I suppose you could restore by just downloading from the appstore...who knows

I lost the screenshot of the apps with filesizes but the ones I deleted were around 500MB. So perhaps not so much about space but more about decluttering the system
pretty much the only apps I use on Mac

mpv audiobook player with subs, video/audio editing, pdf editing, merging, extracting attachments

VSCodium half filesize as VSCode

Claude $200/year for coding

Skim PDF reader, add TOC to existing PDFs

Transnomino file renamer

Librewolf firefox with better privacy defaults

Stats like Activity monitor

Terminal run schell scripts

a few others but these 8 are the main time suckers
TransnominoMathBoldUnicodeRecipes.zip
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Here are two Transnomino recipes one to encode and one to decode Math Bold Unicode. I find it annoying myself and realize why people do it to bypass youtube potential censorship but don't want them in Math Bold Unicode text cuz prevents searching for instance, etc. and wish convert to plain text.

BTW, titlecase was added to Transnomino....not perfect but really close.
Activity Monitor is better than Stats in a few things (cpu/memory app) it's 2.5x smaller memory wise and shows Virtual Memory Compressed as well as Shared Memory. Stats doesn't do that...things Stats can do is show temp of sensors and in % of cpu/mem/gpu/network in menubar. I really don't need stats anymore as prefer to monitor it with Activity Monitor. If Stats didn't shoot up to 150MB then it might be doable but hogs too much memory.
in CPU just click % GPU to monitor graphics. Memory pressure is extremely important..try not to let it get to yellow..keep it green. Free memory = Physical Memory - Memory Used (just do in your head).
Multilingual and Dialect Coverage: Supports major official languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hindi, Greek, Turkish; as well as dialect and accent translation for Mandarin, Cantonese, Beijing, Wu, Sichuan, and Tianjin dialects.

This is great and all but Artificial (should be Superficial) Intelligence still suffers from imperfect programmers who don't know the languages. I don't think AI has advanced since 1982 when you could ask it How are you today? And it'd give some sort of answer. It's just got more data to analyze. Out of the five English sentences at least the last one was correct.

I do use artificial (fake) intelligence (never will be as smart as a cockroach's brain) for coding assistance, language translations and summarization of text but in 15 years from now, it's gonna glaringly show that trash in equals trash out. Even though it may not be so apparent at this stage to some.
added 150 color palettes today ..75 word and 75 letters ones (technically just 75 but each palette used for each one)
probably just for the kids