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(DIR) Post #371220 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2018-10-04T23:55:00Z
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PULSEAUDIO: "hey, remember how you used to have speakers that could play audio? now, don't get mad, but--"
(DIR) Post #371325 by alienghic@octodon.social
2018-10-05T00:04:41Z
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@technomancy Historically the simplest solution was kill the user owned pulse audio daemon, and then like 90% of the time it'd restart and work again.And it was satisfying.
(DIR) Post #371487 by sowth@freeradical.zone
2018-10-05T00:15:44Z
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@technomancy More like PULSEAUDIO: "hy, membr ow ou ued hve speaers at cou pay dio? no, get ad, bt--"apt-get purge pulse-audio đ
(DIR) Post #371520 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2018-10-05T00:17:55Z
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@sowth I actually purged it like a month ago; I'm just still annoyed that Firefox doesn't support anything else.this is like the one thing I still have to keep chromium around for outside work stuff, and it's a drag.
(DIR) Post #372167 by chaomodus@radical.town
2018-10-05T01:10:21Z
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@technomancy to be fair when it doesn't break it's pretty great
(DIR) Post #372239 by astraluma@cybre.space
2018-10-05T01:15:26Z
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@technomancy in fairness to my pulse, the device would up and disappear sometimes.
(DIR) Post #372597 by bootjack@cybre.space
2018-10-05T01:40:27Z
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@technomancy do you know that the first time I told pulseaudio to take a hike was ten years ago?
(DIR) Post #373290 by apg@bsd.network
2018-10-05T02:47:24Z
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@technomancy meanwhile back in #bsd.... âYou wanna play audio? Oh yeah, no problem, bud. Works out of the box with only the kernel driver.â
(DIR) Post #373335 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2018-10-05T02:51:39Z
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@apg as long as it's not Firefox you mean?
(DIR) Post #373356 by veer66@toot.veer66.rocks
2018-10-05T02:53:58.844480Z
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@technomancy @apg \w+BSD has PulseAudio too?
(DIR) Post #373742 by apg@bsd.network
2018-10-05T03:24:40Z
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@technomancy even in Firefox, on FreeBSD, YouTube works totally fine.
(DIR) Post #373762 by apg@bsd.network
2018-10-05T03:26:00Z
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@technomancy pulseaudio is like systemdâyou donât really need it, but somehow, in Linux land, itâs forced upon you anyway.
(DIR) Post #373776 by apg@bsd.network
2018-10-05T03:24:04Z
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@veer66 @technomancy I think thereâs probably packages, but not unless you have a specific need for it, itâs never been necessary for me.
(DIR) Post #373782 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2018-10-05T03:28:12Z
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@apg pulseaudio is a lot easier to avoid; I uninstalled it a few months ago and everything works flawlessly (except Firefox, tragically)
(DIR) Post #373852 by apg@bsd.network
2018-10-05T03:32:43Z
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@technomancy Yeah, my default was always to attempt to remove or not install, but itâs against the grain. Have you tried killing X, and then launching firefox first thing? Maybe thereâs a race to use the audio device...
(DIR) Post #374057 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
2018-10-05T03:50:44Z
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@apg they foolishly dropped support for ALSA a few years ago in Firefox, so no amount of trickery will make it happenon the other hand, vlc *is* a much nicer way to watch youtube...