[conspire] no audio to headphone

[Elise Scher]

Thank you guys!
Right now I am just going to try and get more sleep.
I have trouble sleeping.
So I listen to a “books on tape” audio file I got from my friend of
Stranger in a Strange Land. Works 80% or more of the time.

Respectfully,
Elise Scher


On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 1:47 AM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
>
> > Sorry. I thought Paul Zander is an expert because he's on this list.
>
> I don't want to diss Paul, who is a tech veteran and IEEE member (I
> think?), but IMO both he and anyone else deserves a caution if a
> suggestion amounts to radical distro rewriting.
>
> > You bring up an excellent point. What I suggested is fighting your
> > distro, and why do that? Concidentally, I just updated a
> > Troubleshooters.Com article on this very subject:
> >
> > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/avoid_complexity.htm
>
> As usual, I very much like your framing and analysis.  To paraphrase, if
> you find yourself being tempted to fundamentally re-engineer your
> distro, probably your problem is _better_ addressed by moving sideways to
> a distro better matching your preferences.
>
> That glosses, of course over the _difficult_ part, of knowing which
> sorts of tinkering are mild and easily reverted, versus which others
> might break things badly enough that you'll want to wipe & reinstall.
> I don't have any easy answer, to that.
>
> I don't intend to call novices "fools", but the proverb "Fools rush in
> where angels fear to tread" comes to mind, anyway.
>
> Notoriously over several decades, I repeatedly got yelps of "Help me!"
> from novices who followed incredibly reckless "do this unorthodox thing
> using out-of-tree proprietary drivers to better support 3D accelerated
> video" or something like that -- and I find everything so badly broken,
> with zero records and nothing backed up, that after 2 hours I'm obliged
> to say "Sorry, you broke it.  Next time, maybe don't?"
>
> Back then, nine times out of ten, the terrible advice came from a
> LinuxForums.org.  More recently, almost always ubuntuforums.org
> (though in fairness, the general quality of information there has gotten
> much better, and should be commended).  I note the unifying thread of
> "was on a Web discussion board aimed particularly at novices".
>
> Backing up:  In _general_, you can reasonably infer from a user having
> chosen distro X that he/she prefers and expects the characteristic
> distro X-type approach and tools -- and ought to get a heads-up if
> you're suggesting a wrenching change that does otherwise.
>
> For example, if it's Debian, than you would ordinarily infer that the
> user wants to stay within the apt-managed & distro-provided package
> regime, and that any "I don't need no steenking package management"
> crazy-ass moves with git checkouts and building source code from
> Basingstoke will at least be confined to /usr/local/ .
>
> A Linux from Scratch user, well, not so much.
>
>
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