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another #linux puzzle gripe: i have notifications/x11-bell running through libcanberra by way of module libpipewire-module-x11-bell. the first notification/bell will always play through pc speaker, but second onwards correctly only uses the audio. i want to not unload module pcspkr. what is causing the first occurrence to fumble? "rmmod pcspkr" is the wrong answer.

i wish ripcord had a 32-bit version

is there any decent way to chat on discord on an older machine that doesn't involve clunky bridging into another chatting standard

my favourite type of complaint-disguised-as-feedback on any sort of game or service are the ones that read like someone walking in to their local mcdonalds calling up the manager to lecture them that they're doing their business model a huge disservice by not offering the drivethru cars a free oil change

i'm computers

acidjazz

space ghost is aesthetic

care for a soft focus and a sparkle filter? #decemberween

thank you to the dozens of people who responded to my plea for a text editor on Linux that has better font rendering than gnome with telling me i need to just use vim or emacs instead you truly are a shining example of your tvtropes page

i promise i'm not trying to be difficult i just think that linux will never be as good as windows was in 1995 until it can learn to render aliased full hinted variable width typefaces without it looking like uneven pixel salad

the people who tell me i need to build my own DE from packages from the ground up are telling me to use my "distro"'s default text editor

i might just have to use notepad++ under wine oh well

next time someone tells me to try Linux instead of windows i'll just shove this thread in their face

but maybe Wayland will fix everything once it finally releases in 20 years

not that it'll run on any current, let alone older, machines we currently own

you're lucky if the same hardware heavily supported 10 years ago by xorg and mesa even boots today

but hey mesa-amber huh

face it we all gave Linux a shot in the early 2000s because we saw that video of compiz doing the 3d workspace switching thing and thought that was the pinnacle of desktop UI and later lied to ourselves it was because free as in beer or speech software was somehow better than pirating windows xp and now the stronghold of gnome is making you use a worse version of mac os you have to manually fix every update or let go of whatever customisations have even survived this far