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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




in reply to slothrop

Grocery prices shot up by more than 30% since 2020, says StatsCan


Obligatory - Loblaw is out of control

The PBO report estimates the one-time payment will cost more than $3 billion this year, while the annual increases will cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion annually through to 2031.


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.

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.



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 userD

Each 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!

This entry was edited (49 minutes ago)
in reply to kiol

Example setup:
- Jellyfin user access from TailscaleA
- Nextcloud user access from TailscaleB
- Jellyfin user access from Wireguard
- Jellyfin user access from Twingate
- Jellyfin user access from local services

How would you manage this in a somewhat seamless manner?



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?