I'm so confused with this random audio issue
Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months
Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.
Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.
Fedora 43 GNOME
How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?
This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D
Help managing access to multiple VPN services (Tailscale, Wireguard, Twingate)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34942012
I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:
- Local network services
- Tailscale services from userA
- Tailscale services from userB
- Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
- Twingate from userDEach user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.
- Management via software
- Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
- Could even distribute such devices between these friends.Thanks for all thoughts!
I'm not sure what you'd like here. You didn't give much info.
Did you want someone to literally work out a full config for you in here? We don't know what you're even running.
AI controls is coming to Firefox
Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.
They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.
Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?
Microsoft Claude 365?
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code, despite selling its own GitHub Copilot AI tool. Microsoft’s developers are now testing out both to compare them.Tom Warren (The Verge)
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos
'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos - Panorama-Mundial
El 29 de enero de 2026, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump emitió una nueva orden ejecutiva declarando un "estado de emergencia nacional" debido a la "inusual y extraordinaria amenaza" que la nación isleña supuestamente representa para Estados…world-outlook.com (Panorama-Mundial)
Wiarton Willie predicts early spring, but Punxsutawney Phil disagrees
Wiarton Willie, along with most of his Canadian counterparts, has predicted an early spring after he did not see his shadow on Monday morning on Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day is a long-held tradition of watching animals coming out of hibernation to predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Every Feb. 2, groundhogs and even a crustacean emerge from their shelters to see if they see their shadows.
predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
Where I live 6 more weeks of winter is an early spring.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy * TorrentFreak
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Rest of World
Proton Mail and UpScrolled attract users looking to quit Big Tech services like TikTok, Meta and Google.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
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At this point I must cancel my Spotify subscription. Any suggestion on how to implement a somewhat automated music discovery system that can replace Spotify's "radios" and playlists?
I already run a Navidrome instance.
blog.zaramis.se/2026/02/02/att…
gup.exe making network requests for other than: notepad-plus-plus.org, github.com and release-assets.githubusercontent.com
doublepulsar.com/small-numbers…
The write up is from December when it was first disclosed afaik
Kinda sad the flagship instance is the biggest turnoff to wider adoption. Also, I gotta try / switch to Piefed.
Doing an "Orphan Black" re-watch and this scene gets me every time.
Oh, there's an "-ism"
Felix goes to a club and is disappointed to learn there's an "-ism" required to be there.
‘We Don’t Know the Word Surrender’: Cubans Respond to New U.S. Threats
Limia Díaz is a historian, writer, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and director of the Cuban TV program MARCAS.
Feb. 2, 2026
The U.S. military leaders know that Cuba is not Venezuela, that they wouldn’t have the easy victory of January 3rd. We do not know the word surrender, and that is why Trump has set out to recreate the shameful chapter of Weyler’s Reconcentration, ordered by that Spanish general to starve our people into submission, given his inability to defeat the Mambí Army on the battlefield. They cannot forgive us for being considered a moral compass despite all the difficulties, and the spirit of revenge leads them to act with genocidal cruelty. What will humanity do: succumb to fascism or respond with courage and integrity? “Whoever stands with Cuba today, stands for all time.”
‘We Don’t Know the Word Surrender’: Cubans Respond to New U.S. Threats - World-Outlook
On January 29, 2026, U.S. president Donald Trump issued a new executive order declaring a “national emergency” because of the “unusual and extraordinary threat” the island nation allegedly poses to the United States.world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
Waaiiiittttaminute
how do you not know the word if you are able to use it correctly in a sentence?
Hmmmmmm
Avid Amoeba
in reply to slothrop • • •Obligatory - Loblaw is out of control
Not that expensive. Still these moves without addressing the rent seeking (profit maximization) in the consoludated supply and retail chain is a band aid. Minimum wages are also woefully underadjusted but they'd only have positive effect if the grocers can't just jack up their prices to where they think the new market conditions would bear.
SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •list the hospitals and schools you would like to close to subsidize Loblaws.
Avid Amoeba
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •Zero obviously.
If we assume Loblaws gets 100% of this money and those 12M Canadians get no extra food as a result from it, then I would be 100% against this. However I bet that 12M people will get some more food, probably not the equivalent of 100% of the spend but not zero. Loblaws would get the rest. Hunger isn't lower priority than healthcare. Both are cut-to-the-bone issues and food very much affects health and healthcare. So I think this will provide needed relief in the near term. We all know what happens in the long run. It's very much not the type of policy I would do if I were PM.
Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer an Avi Lewis gov't setup a non-profit public grocer and distributor and have zero money go to Loblaws, which is why I'm getting people to vote in the NDP election. I'm just commenting on the current material reality.
Daniel Quinn
in reply to slothrop • • •A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It's just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.
If you want to lower prices, you can't give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.
HellsBelle
in reply to Daniel Quinn • • •SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to slothrop • • •Avid Amoeba
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BurgerBaron
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •podian
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