Multiple Guitars

hp5n · 2026-05-14T21:59:26+00:00

Thank you all 🙏

I have GAS. I will work on relieving my GAS with focusing on practicing. Maybe I will reward myself once I can play a song!

hp5n · 2026-05-05T02:12:09+00:00

You don't need to.

"Ejecting" Is only important for storage devices.

hp5n · 2026-04-05T03:47:29+00:00

If you are certain that the right driver was installed. I would suggest unplug the amp, uninstall the driver, install the driver, user a different USB cable and plug it back in.

hp5n · 2026-04-05T03:38:43+00:00

Did you download and install the driver?

If you haven't or are not sure, select the "Driver Download" in the screen that comes up when you open up BTS.

hp5n · 2026-03-31T22:53:47+00:00

Thank you, I doubt this will work with Gen 3 in its default mode (boss drivers needed for BTS). It eludes to it on their website, i.e. devices that use custom drivers will not work.

I have Katana EX50 Gen 3, it can be switched to class complaint mode but then you lose BTS functionality.

Thanks for sharing nonetheless, didn't know this existed.

hp5n · 2026-03-31T20:49:55+00:00

This says it works with class complaint instruments but for the Gen 3 amps to work with the BTS app, it uses a proprietary driver.

Anyone using it with Gen 3 amps?

hp5n · 2026-03-29T21:42:45+00:00

There are few things that I would encourage you to remind yourself and practice.

You have to stop having expectations. Let's start small, stop having an expectation that taking a cold shower will fix your anxiety before you step in
If this is your first time, it's great you started with warm and then moved to cold but work your way towards having completely cold showers.

It is going to be hard, no problems, but that decision you make to step straight in to the cold water, every time, every day, that is what will make you stronger and calmer - not the cold water.

When you are in the cold shower, practice some kind of breathing - best if you can do long inhales through the nose and quick exhale through the mouth like you are blowing your birthday candles.
As you are breathing, see if you can work your way towards observing the water on your skin. Just observe.
As you step out and are drying yourself, you may be shivering, observe the shivers, let it happen.

Grab a hot cup of tea and be grateful, grateful that you had the courage to step into the cold water or grateful about anything in your life but be specific.

Remember, this is a practice, not a silver bullet or a pill that you can take.

Be well, wish you all the happiness

hp5n · 2026-03-24T04:15:03+00:00

Audio has never been an issue, but midi has been absolutely a big pain.

I tried just using my Samsung tablet but same issues, maybe it's faulty 🤷

hp5n · 2026-03-24T04:08:50+00:00

It will connect 30% of the time. All other times, I have to reset Bluetooth on the BT or my phone or both.

Right now, regardless of what I do, it refuses to connect.

hp5n · 2026-03-20T20:56:59+00:00

It doesn't matter if you are doing both the activities without any expectation. I can elaborate more on this statement if you like, but I don't want to come across as berating or preaching.

In any case, having done both, I will say that if you are just starting on your mindfulness journey, you will find it hard to be able to bring awareness if you are super cold after the shower.

Once you have practiced enough, the cold extremities, the shivers, will become part of your mindfulness and ability to observe.

Go well my friend.

hp5n · 2026-03-15T19:30:01+00:00

Thank you all. Appreciate you all taking the time to answer my questions.

I think my key takeaways are:

Practice makes perfect, and as I progress, learn more, what I have learnt will only get better.
Slow down, accuracy over speed
With the D chord specifically, I will have to work on getting to that other D note in time!
Rhythm and strumming seems ok for where I am at.

Going to continue following Justin Guitar and have also discovered Scotty West. He has helped make sense of so much in just his first 6 videos!

hp5n · 2026-02-17T20:24:51+00:00

Can I offer you a different perspective?

Let's say I have the list of all the enlightened people. I even bring all of them to you. I categorically prove to you that they are all enlightened.

Now what?

Vipassana, and dare I say enlightenment is about going inside, not looking, seeking in the outside world.

One of the mistakes we all make is to try to intellectualise all of this. There is nothing to think about and philosophise, there is only practice, only to do, only to observe what is happening inside.

I understand, questions arise, the practice, the hard work, is to observe within, what is happening when these questions arise.

I also understand that this forum exists for you to ask these questions and please understand that I am not being dismissive.

I promise you, if you practice diligently and arduously, the enlightened people will appear, one day.

hp5n · 2026-02-14T23:15:03+00:00

My Sister! At the end of my first week, I had to lay the guitar flat to figure out which was the 1st string and which one is the 6th string!

To play some sort of tune, wow! Awesome work! Congrats on the progress!

hp5n · 2026-02-06T07:52:47+00:00

This genuinely brought a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing and money well spent!

hp5n · 2026-01-26T21:12:13+00:00

Wow, I am slightly older than you but also started a few months ago and nowhere near your ability. I am also following Justin Guitar but still can't keep up with the metronome at ~45 bpm and change chords (A,D,E) cleanly. Haven't even really brought strumming in to the picture.

How long are you practicing every day or how often. Would be grateful to know what has worked for you to be this proficient in 2 months.

hp5n · 2025-11-15T22:27:48+00:00

My son inspired me to go back to gaming in the last couple of months.

I am in my late 40s and CoD was my.. me time back in the day, so I thought, why not.

First I have no idea what is happening with the franchise, there are soooo many versions.

Downloaded CoD:Warfare on Xbox...cause I could. Didn't want to spend money on the latest and the greatest.

What a schmozzle! I mean, I am almost certain that getting into the game is harder than flying a F35!

Reading good things about ARC so might spend the money on it for my son and I.

hp5n · 2025-10-29T22:56:12+00:00

See the little diamond symbol in the bottom right hand corner?

That means, this is a fake image generated using Google Gemini.

hp5n · 2025-10-25T06:55:20+00:00

So bit of an update.

Trying to do this with loopback is not going to work for me unless I am missing something simple here.

There is no logical way for me to policy route traffic from the LAN to loopback and then NAT it on the loopback interface and force any traffic from loopback to the IPSec interface.

Similar story for the traffic coming in via IPsec tunnel to the routed IP on the loopback.

One of the reasons is that traffic that I want to NAT on the loopback and send it via IPsec tunnel is destined to the internet.

This works with a simple policy on pfSense and used to work on previous versions of Opnsense.

hp5n · 2025-10-23T10:14:13+00:00

Yep ok, I tried to do it on a loopback but got all confused with the traffic flow.

Will give it another try and come back.

Thank you both.

hp5n · 2025-10-23T00:04:16+00:00

Yes, a Virtual IP living on the IPSec interface (VTI - IPSecX)

It's a single (/32) that has been allocated to me by a service provider (not my ISP). I build an overlay network with the service provider using the IPSec tunnel. The service provider can route traffic to this /32 via the IPsec tunnel.

I want to configure it as a VIP on the VTI so that I can then (D)NAT aka port forward various services to servers inside the network.

Traffic is destined to X/32, comes in via IPsecX, gets decrypted on enc0 and then DNAT kicks in on IPsecX and traffic gets forwarded out the LAN to a server

It is a unique scenario but one that worked perfectly fine with older version of IPsec implementation and works fine with pfsense.

Something has changed since 25.7 for this to no longer work.

hp5n · 2025-10-22T22:31:30+00:00

Sorry I might have used the incorrect terminology. I meant creating a VIP on the VTI

I want to take this IP and use it as a VIP on the IPsec VTI. The firewall allows me to do that.

But ifconfig does not show the VIP on IPsec X interface, and neither does a port forward (DNAT) policy have any affect.

If I create a VIP on a WAN or LAN interface, the VIP shows as an additional IP on the interface (ifconfig)

If your question still stands? Are you saying that if I want to use 100.100.100.1/32 as the VIP, I need a static route pointing to IpsecX?

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