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OK, I'm on Debian Trixie with Gnome and just got a new (used) geforce 1050ti graphics card. I installed the proprietary drivers, and everything was working fine (after wrangling wine issues) until I turned on the sound. Playing something simple from a single audio source would work OK. But if another program started playing something, or if I pause/played quickly, then the audio would get all distorted and echo-y.
So far, the only way I can get the audio to be stable is the following:
in gnome settings, set the audio output to HDMI/displayport
install easyeffects
under output/players, enable the PipeWire ALSA [fluidsynth] playback
under PipeWire/General, uncheck the "Use default output", and change the output to "Built-in Analog Stereo" (which in my case isn't hooked up with anything)
Alternatively, I can changev the Gnome settings to the "Built-in Analog", and then in easyeffects, I can exclude the pipewire ALSA, and enable whatever programs I want to hear. The problem with this method is the Gnome volume control then doesn't work.
I'm mainly posting in hopes this gets indexed and helps some other wayward linux weirdo in the future. But I'm also curious if yall have any suggestions for a more permanent fix. Remove ALSA? In the default configuration, it definitely seems like there's some feedback or doubling or interference going on with pipewire and/or ALSA.
But linux audio is still black magic to me. I don't even know if ALSA or pipewire is a lower level. It's one of those situations where I half-solve a problem I couldn't find by googling, and just want to put it out in the ether
ALSA is lowest level, and is the kernel interface to audio hardware. Pipewire provides a userspace service to share limited hardware.
Try setting "export PIPEWIRE_LATENCY=2048/48000" before running an audio producing application (from the same shell).
Distortion can sometimes be related to the audio buffers not getting filled in time, so increasing the buffering as above gives it more time to even out. You can try 1024 instead of 2048 too.
There is no doubt a way to set it globally, if it helps.
In our modern society, dominated by the constant noise of notifications, conversations, and urban traffic, silence has become a rare yet essential luxury. Amid this daily turmoil, practicing morning…
This was an interview earlier this week between Channel 4 and Israeli government spokesman. The Spokesman is a former heald of the UK Labour Friends of Israel.
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The CBO released a report estimating that President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next ten years.
@Bart It was defined as a Constitutional Republic, granted it's become a Kleptocracy, the founding fathers did not put adequate protections in and those they did put in are ignored by modern courts.
thing is, I'm not even opposed to dismantling IP as a concept, and I'm not wild about wielding it to oppose AI, because the same argument is used to shut down the internet archive
*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo's behest
if you take a job at a tech company they will want ownership of everything you make. if you "steal" from a big company or institution they will crush you, they have literally pushed people to their deaths over this
people spent years unsuccessfully lobbying to make it legal to rip a CD and put it on an iPod, and pushing back against the effect of ebook DRM on accessibility… but suddenly the government wants to change copyright to benefit Google et al. Very rational to find the difference sus.
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to ...
[ The Daily Beast: DHS Appoints 22-Year-Old to Lead Terrorism Prevention ] thedailybeast.com/22-year-old-… This moron's fucking portrait is a hoot. I wonder if the photographer told him, "you know you don't get immunity for anything you do here, right?"
This is the form you need to submit to them authorities when your pets that happen to be included in CITES appendix II/B made more of themselves in Italy and you hope to legally transfer them to someone else, even if you're not charging money. Of course they charge you for submitting the paper and you can only put 6 "pups" on one paper. Now, imagine if you have tortoises that decided to lay eggs. Or better yet, a pet tarantula that's included. And that's supposed to stop illegal pet trade....
Seriously. Imagine a spider that produces something like 800 spiderlings and then you're required to register all of them, 6 at a time. Who the fuck will do that, or pay someone for doing that instead of just grabbing whatever they want on ebay or something? How does that make sense?! Fuckin' Europe....
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ils voudraient faire haïr l'écologie qu'ils ne feraient pas autrement. Attends une minute...
La cour des comptes confirme tout ce que nous avions écrit. Dans un rapport publié ce 3 juin, les magistrats étrillent le dispositif qui – cela devient une constante au niveau national comme européen – n’a fait l’objet d’aucune étude d’impact. «D’un simple objet réglementaire technique à vocation informative, le DPE s’est dès lors, dans les faits, transformé en outil stratégique et politique aux conséquences majeures pour les particuliers et pour le régime de la propriété sans que les conséquences de cette transformation et de son calendrier de réalisation n’aient été clairement mesurées, notamment en termes de risque d’éviction, même temporaire, de logements du parc locatif», souligne le rapport, à lire ici.
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We really need a way to communicate to the wider public that Zionism and Israel are *not the same thing as Judaism.*
That being against these is not anti-Semitic (or in fact even based on the fact that they are connected with Judaism!) and not wanting thousands of people to be murdered is not the same as supporting terrorism.
The media and politicians need to challenge the propaganda and tear down the automatic lies that keep coming out. The fallacious argument that if you are against murdering women and children that you are therefore pro-terrorist?!
The basic logic of this just needs a second to think about - is there no-one left in the media or politics with a voice powerful enough and articulate enough to defend reality?
Zionism and the state of Israel are commercial, colonialist, genocidal operations. They represent money and power and the quest for more of both of those.
Most of the backing and support comes from outside Israel - the UK and USA mainly. Two colonialist powers scrabbling to continue their proxy wars and power struggles in a part of the world that they have destroyed and ravaged and have no right to be involved in.
That is it. They do not give a shit about Jewish people beyond using them for their ends to justify violence and oppression. This is based on the terrible fact that Jewish people suffered the same things as Israel (and their supporters) are committing on other groups now. The uniforms are different - the hatred and lies are just the same.
After the U.K. suspended some arms to Israel amid public calls for an arms embargo, a pro-Israel lobbyist met with a top U.K. diplomat to offer "recommendations" on Middle East policy, John McEvoy reports.
Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, met Sergei Shoigu on a visit to the DPRK leading a delegation of the Security …
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble feeding the people visiting your sites to the surveillance capitalism adtech machine. mastodon.africa/@roblaing/1146…
Noting my Google Ad revenue from my various hobby listings websites was drifting even closer to zero, I decided to check what's "good practice" this week.
J’aimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu ressens J’aimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu aimes J’aimerais que tu partages ce que tu as appris... J‘ aimerais que tu partages avec moi autre choses que ce que tu crois que j’aime, Autre chose que ce que tu crois que je suis. Simplement parce que c’est de ta grandeur que je grandis.
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I'd like you to share with me what you feel I'd like you to share with me what you love I'd like you to share with me what you've learned I'd like you to share with me other things than what you think I like Other than what you think I am. Simply because it's from your greatness that I grow.
Sans effort, pierre par pierre, je démonterais mes cathédrales inutiles. Emplies de rien, elles deviendront vides de tout… ...Et dans le silence retrouvé, mon unique prière deviendra : MERCI !
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Effortlessly, stone by stone, I will dismantle my useless cathedrals. Filled with nothing, they will become empty of everything... ...And in the new-found silence, my only prayer will become THANK YOU!
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Il ne s'agît pas d'être anti-nucléaires, juste réalistes pour deux raisons :
1 - le nouveau nucléaire est trop lent à être déployé dans des délais compatibles avec l'urgence climatique, écologique et politique.
2 - Le nucléaire maintient la France dans une abondance d'énergie qui nous empêche de nous adapter au nouveau paradigme advenu : l'anthropocène...
Conclusion : je défends la thèse inverse de #JeanMarcJancovici pour qui le nucléaire est un amortisseur ( #NucléaireAmortisseur ). Le nucléaire est une excuse pour l'inaction d'autant plus que nous sommes confrontés à toutes les autres limites planétaires... ( #NucléaireEmpêcheur )
De plus il est bien plus dangereux que ce qu'il affirme et il est de toute façon non durable.
Par contre le fait que le nucléaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et l'Europe, c'est une évidence absolue. Le nucléaire n'est une excuse pour rien du tout, le problème c'est les fossiles carbonés en premier lieu. Les gens sérieux y compris dans le développement des ENR comme Karim Megherbi sont d'ailleurs d'accord.
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org ça n'est pas accessible. Quoi qu'il en soit il faut qu'on se débarrasse de 80% de nos sources d'énergie, il est complètement évident qu'on ne va pas se débarrasser du nucléaire en même temps. À moins que le projet ne soit de retourner au Moyen-Âge en commettant un génocide au passage ?
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org oui j'ai vu. OK Janco n'est pas Dieu, il se trompe, parfois il dit des conneries. Mais il évolue. Il n'est plus le chantre du nucléaire, il ne dit plus du mal de l'éolien comme il le faisait en 2012. Il faut évoluer aussi 😀
Sur "Par contre le fait que le nucléaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et l’Europe, c’est une évidence absolue." :
En plus de ce que j'ai déjà évoqué, il faudrait dissocier un cœur d'activités stratégiques soumis à décisions démocratiques avec débat citoyen comme le militaire ou la production d'acier, du reste de l'activité pour lequel le maître mot serait "sobriété", "justice sociale", etc.
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The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company's German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations.
There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
> b) the default Mastodon instance is pro-genocide
The 2) link you posted has no such content or hint of it (only vague accusations that some moderators might have done something without any details) Instead you block people for asking honest question, and refuse to give a straight answer.
mastodon.social might have problems, but labeling a whole group in this manner is the same thing that Netanyahu is doing; do better.
if the firefox devs were serious about literally anything the corp says, one killer feature that would absolutely differentiate them materially from other browsers is to take all the differential privacy tech you made for 'private' advertising and use it to remove LLM slop domains from search engine results pages with distributed downranking and automated removal.
That is the one of the main things you can do at a browser level with the kind of statistical privacy tooling they developed for the advancement of the advertising industry -- yet would still by fully in line with their stilted defense of the ad industry as 'need to invite the ad industry to unilaterally disarm' by allowing 'good ads' -- but would never appear in a browser funded primarily by google.
@aral such a self own. like yeah even in twisted silicon valley logic, go ahead and say that, but the entire survival of your brand depends on people not believing that, so if that's what you're saying you're a really shitty silicon valley company whose business model will always be losing out to companies who are a billion times your size in exactly the same niche entirely unhampered by public perception because they ate your lunch 20 years ago.
edit: excuse me did i say 100x your size on the first go?
Well, it’s not what they say publicly. Only in the *wink* *wink* drinks and nibbles bits between sessions among friends. Folks like that don’t like folks like me when they discover I’m not playing their *wink* *wink* games.
@aral It sounds like they are in a mental bubble. Don’t they understand that they really have only product that anyone cares about - Firefox. And the only reason people care about their objectively less performant product is because of their underdog years when they were perceived as being more credibly pro-user than big tech. It’s not a high standard. It’s the *only* standard that is keeping you in the market right now.
@aral @vartak ya ya that's what i'm saying - they pay for the reputation and the legal defense of saying they are not the sole browser, just enough so that it exists in principle though not in fact. it's not big enough to materially affect their advertising revenue, at 2% competitor share, you've won. but the way mozilla has played this has really fucked up even that defense, because by arguing so vehemently that they need google to survive, they have fucked up the reason for funding them as a passive antitrust defense and the alternative they would have had by direct funding by their actual users
@aral @vartak even their own differential privacy "good ad company" ambitions depend on that dynamic. to have any competitive footing, the product you are selling to advertisers that is quite literally -worse data as a service- is access to the most privacy conscious user that you have exclusive access to. so this entire diversification strategy of doubling down on "maybe google funding will survive but if not we'll be the good AI company" is like a recursive funhouse mirror of bad strategy.
"we need to have fuzzy signal that doesn't give any single contributor undue influence or identifiability over the result" hmm sounds a lot like a system that would be capable of determining if "everyone who went to this domain determined that it was AI slop" or not. that a browser would be uniquely positioned to do.
@aral @dubiousblur If there has to be a taxpayer funded browser, I would insist they fork Chromium instead. This will give it instant feature and performance parity and kind of stick it to Google. They would no longer be able to beat their this new browser on performance, and their contributions to Chromium could be pulled into the new browser. This essentially recruits Google for the public good.
@dubiousblur @vartak Much easier to form a separate independent organisation, e.g., funded by a yearly grant of EU taxpayer money, to hard fork a new browser from Firefox and develop it here.
I don’t think I’ll be holding my breath for the political will to bring about such a project at the moment.
@dubiousblur @vartak We can (just do things) but, as I’ve found as someone just doing something, without funding in this fucked up system it’s as damn difficult road to traverse and I can’t really fault more people for not just doing things under the circumstances.
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