Weldon @weldon@librem.one
Aggressively generalist
Joined Aug 2019
I finally got my Norman braised chicken recipe the way I like it, so I thought I'd share with the fedi-foodie-verse
Every year or so I try to transfer my GnuPG keyring to a new machine and wind up half-writing the same rant, over and over again, about how while it's nice that they are absurdly paranoid about incredibly improbable corner-case threats, the end result is to keep people from using it. Pinentry is the current example. Yes, I agree, it provides a form of protection against a threat vector that I'm not worried about. And in the process it makes the suite unusable without docs-groveling.
After a month in Europe I'm not sure that #gdpr actually does anything other than make me click "OK" and then receive the exact same tracking.
Weldon
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If your platform entertains the like of those whose mantra is to harm others, you can't turn around and say you're defending the victims of said harm.
@welshpixie (and not all sound cards support it; yours may have a hardware switch that disables line out when the headphone jack is in use -- which is particularly annoying if that jack develops a short)
@welshpixie This used to be incredibly easy with ESD but in 2019 we can't have nice things. If you tell Pulse and Alsa both not to mute Line Out when headphones are plugged in, you can set their volumes independently. I got it to work once about a year ago by following this:
But it was such a PITA I gave up on it for my new laptop.
TLDR it takes configuring how both Pulse and Alsa handle the line out and headphones.
#Introductions
I'm a recovering sysadmin who just moved to Paris. I'm interested in #socialhistory, #arts, #aesthetics, #rootsmusic, #cooking / #eating, and a non-exploitative online experience. #forth and #lisp programmer. Learning #francais and #bangla. Rank beginner at #mastodon. he/him.
So, phone interview tomorrow, though still no word about what time. Here goes nothing.
Aggressively generalist
Joined Aug 2019
