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Down the drain: The elusive ‘default’ PulseAudio sink

There is no such thing as a default output device (or sink) in PulseAudio. It say so right there in the official documentation. There is something referred to…

Post date May 24, 2018
Post categories In Desktop, Linux
3 Comments on Down the drain: The elusive ‘default’ PulseAudio sink

Fixing the SteelSeries Arctis 7 outputs on Ubuntu 18.04/PulseAudio 11

IMPORTANT: If you dualboot with Windows and run the Steelseries Engine software you should exercise caution when considering updating the headset firmware. Steelseries Engine version 3.2.18 introduced a…

Post date May 22, 2018
Post categories In Desktop, Hardware, Linux
23 Comments on Fixing the SteelSeries Arctis 7 outputs on Ubuntu 18.04/PulseAudio 11

Homeserver: NUC vs Raspberry Pi

I have tried at various points to write a followup to my “so what’s it like using a NUC for a homeserver/HTPC?” post. Mostly it strands on there…

Post date October 11, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux, Server

Trying out Fedora 26: No way-land?

My relationship with Fedora is of the sort where every two years I look at screenshots and go ‘Nice, why am I not running this again?’ Then I…

Post date August 15, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Why my udev backup script kept failing and how I fixed it

I wanted to use udev to sync my backups to an external usb drive but the rsync-based shell script kept mysteriously stopping before the job was done. When…

Post date June 12, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Steam In-home Streaming lags with NetworkManager revisited: Replacing NetworkManager with systemd-networkd

Back in early 2015 I encountered an issue with NetworkManager: Even if you have ever only told it about your one single wireless network (or AP, access point)…

Chorus2 + Firefox 51 = Easier music streaming

One of many new features in Kodi 17 is the new default web frontend, Chorus2. The old Kodi frontend was an extremely basic web remote that allowed you…

Post date February 12, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux, Server

Running Kodi as a pure client on linux

When I got rid of the last Windows partition on any of my home computers, I thought I would finally give NFS a chance to replace CIFS as…

Post date February 11, 2017
Post categories In Desktop, Linux, Server