I know, but Pipewire gets a lot of hype and I’m not sure how much of it is deserved.

I also don’t know where the “easier” part comes into play for the end-user. pavucontrol and pactl reveals as much to me under pipe as it did under pulse. I’m sure the I/O in the background is a lot cleaner, but I’ve not noticed anything in the foreground.

I use wezterm, and like the edit mode and the window splitting, but it’s very much designed for vim users and as an emacs nerf herder I just can’t seem to find my home

doesn’t the skin prompt an allergic reaction? I’ve always found the skin to be “spicy”

I think that’s just branding. I use the pipewire / wireplumber stack for a while and have not noticed any big gains over vanilla pulse

It’s hard to make a bug report, since I can’t find the specific version that caused the regression, and it’s hard to downgrade that single package to do a binary search to find the regression without altering all the system packages. It’s a kind of “damned-if-you-do” catch-11 situation

paranoid thought: someone got some dirt on him, and forced him to be their puppet

Oh wow, I’m reading through his wiki page, and he starts off so promising… how did flip to Fox News to quickly

I’d argue that’s every even moderately progressive major news outlet these days. Guardian’s pretty tame too

the first 10,000 times yeah I can get behind the silly view. The next 90,000 times, it just becomes this tired useless phrase uttered mindlessly to the point that you question the well being of the arch users who utter it. That’s what I mean by toxic. I consider my own sanity for using arch every time I hear this phrase.

That was almost 50 years ago. Is it really a conservative outlet? Everything I hear from there seems to be of a pretty reasonably high tier

(I hate saying this, but) I’m on arch, and using pretty up-to-date versions of pulse and wireplumber, but no dice. I’ve tried the LTS kernel, still no dice. I think it’s a regression that has somehow largely gone unnoticed, because I cannot find any bug reports about it, despite the headphones being quite popular

But it’s a profile you can switch away from quite nicely using pavucontrol

I like your commitment to the bit

*Pam from The Office Meme*

*McBain meme*

You’ve named all the good ones. We should hang out.

distros need package managers. I mean hell, one could argue that distros are package managers

as a fellow user I’m always going to downvote this meme. It’s toxic at this point

Pulseaudio. For a long time my Sony headphones had no working mic. Then one magical update, I had full HSP as well as A2DP sink. It was amazing - I could take teams calls without having to change headsets!

Then one not-so magical update, poof it just went. I tried to scour the bug list in pulseaudio to find anyone who had experienced the same but found the bugtracker impossible to navigate without a login account.

So now I wait, and update, and pray for an update that restores this feature.

Its just easy to write super-optimised code snippets in without having to break out into assembly.

When you download R, youre downloading C++/C and Fortran