The command to fix my audio was:
sudo apt purge timidity-daemon
Apparently while trying to install things for composing music with MIDI I got all the other sound on my computer to stop working. Took forever to find the right person with the solution.
Before I had my orchiectomy I researched everything I could about the effects on the body that may result. I was prepared for many things so I was not surprised when I had hot flashes and my skin cleared up. The results so far have been mostly positive and I got my hormones tested on December 16th and the results were that my other hormones have gone super high because my adrenal glands are trying to make up for the fact that the testosterone is super low. Estrogen, LH, FSH, and DHEA are all higher than they were before.
But something happened that I did not expect. Food and even beverages have a smell now! I never knew powerade had a smell or that the vegan pizza from sarpinos smelled so good. Even taste is improved. All my life I have had almost no sense of smell and all of a sudden that changed! If anyone else has had a similar experience or has an explanation I would very much like to know the scientific reason behind this.
This is very exciting. I found instructions on the Pinebook Pro wiki about enabling OpenGL 3.3 support. I then tried compiling a Raylib demo that failed before because it requires newer OpenGL than 2.1 which was enabled by default. Amazingly it worked! Now the glxinfo command shows that version 3.3 is supported. My other programs in freeglut and glfw were all written for version 2.1 so they still work exactly the same and I’ll probably keep them that way since it’s always worked flawlessly for drawing my polygons. But enabling modern OpenGL will probably make many games work that did not before. Though the Pinebook Pro is not meant as a gaming PC but I bought it because I wanted to write programs that ran fast even on limited hardware. Everything is working even better than ever!
Here are some screenshots that show the differences before and after following the directions on the wiki page.
Parts 1 and 2 of my unicorn story are now updated on my blog. Punctuation has been fixed and chapter 5 in part 1 needed a complete rewrite to make sense. Here are the links to those posts.
https://chastitywhiterose.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/chandlers-honesty-part-1-chandler-meets-a-unicorn/
https://chastitywhiterose.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/chandlers-honesty-part-2-chandler-and-a-unicorn-talk-religion/
You can also find these by visiting the Chandler’s Honesty page at the top of my blog.
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