holy shit, stopping pulseaudio literally gave me another hour of battery life in the estimation tooltip
what the fuck
@zac Maybe. For several years after its adoption by major distros, among the things pulseaudio couldn't do was mix sounds from different applications, things OSS, ALSA, & ESD had been doing reliably forever. Just as with bad systemd design decisions currently, Poettering's inclination was to blame everyone & everything else for not using his code properly.
@arielmt in my experience I had more issues with alsa playing from multiple sources than pulse :/
it's probably my overall inexperience talking, though
@arielmt "the path to hell is littered with good intentions"