Jalada
jwzPeriodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars.
synlogic@jwz now Elon's plans for Mars colonization make even more sense
jonathankoren™@jwz If only it was the moon. It would be fitting if it only works without an atmosphere
Tom Forsyth@jwz Reminds me of this exchange:
"Hey did you know they use Linux on the ISS?"
"Ah so that's why there's no sound in space."
MenhirMike
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@jwz Weirdly hopeful. If we can do it there, we can do it here.
Sam@jwz this... this *hurts* me.
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻@jwz Wow, I knew The Expanse did pretty well on scientific accuracy but this really puts it over the top
naught101@jwz I guess that means that there are zero planets where 100% of Windows or Apple systems have working audio?
shork@naught101 @jwz no, all planets with zero systems have 100% working audio
notsoloud
pinecones@jwz lmao this post is god-tier nerd humor.
Michael Sokolov@jwz I'm living in my own planet audio
Doran Wetzel
Autobrian 🤖@jwz I laughed because it is 100% true.
h100gfld@jwz must be the Martian packets.
Veg@jwz I hate that this is true.
~hicksca@jwz is this true 🤔 lol
rexi
Dima Tisnek@jwz is not wrong! Curiosity doesn't have audio, but Perseverance does and you can listen to it at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/audio/
adamcrussell@jwz Also, PowerPC is the top computer architecture on planets other than Earth.
stew@jwz who remembers "My name is Linus Toravalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux" every time you loaded your OSS drivers?
ehurtley 
@stewoconnor @jwz I knew that was there, but my audio drivers never worked, so I never knew how it was pronounced. 😆
Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce "Linux" as "Linux".
@stewoconnor @jwz Hah! I ran Linux on that same laptop back in the day as my daily driver. Strangely, while living only a couple miles from Linus, and actually running into him at the grocery store every so often.
(He drove a Mercedes convertible paid for with Red Hat IPO money, license plate frame read "Mr. Linux, King of Geeks.")
@stewoconnor I'm sorry I think I just heard you droning "joiiiiiin us now and shaaaaaare teh software you'll be freeeeeee haaaaaaaackers you'll be freeeeeeeee"
chebrawhy did I read that in Nick Cage nasal voice? Now I can't get rid of that imagination 
@jwz plenty of planets where there are no Linux systems that are suffering major audio problems though!
@jwz (that would be hilarious if i'm wrong and it turns out nearly every exoplanet is inhabited by a civilization that has reinvented Linux somehow)
JacobRPG 🫘@jwz how low must we get that percentage to include Earth?
Doc Quixotic🌹@jwz This implies that aliens are running Linux systems on all other planets except Mars.
Johannes Spielmann@jwz I'd say most planets have that feature. At least Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Extrasolar planets most probably, too. I'm almost sure Earth is the only planet where Linux sound systems don't work properly.
Jan B.@jwz Pretty sure they use VxWorks...
seism0saurus@jwz
Still one planet more than Windows and MacOS 😁
Still one planet more than Windows and MacOS 😁
mandubian@jwz and even on mars, I've heard yesterday someone trying to tell me that it was working for him until he lost the device...
@jwz and, of course, there Linux will have 100% of the market.
🚴 maricn ✊@jwz Mars rover uses 👉USB👈 connected audio interface 🫠
mym@jwz nah this is also (vacuously) true for Uranus
Larry@jwz The rovers run linux?
Corsac@jwz bless the MCRN
Mars Capone@jwz /cries in Teams from my Ubuntu laptop but you can't hear me because the mic isn't working again
eyrea 🇨🇦@jwz That shows it's feasible 😂
˜”*°• Papigoe 🏳️🌈 🏴🇳🇴@jwz Yay PulseAudio/Pipewire switchover. We can extend this tae consistent HP printer drivers.
@jwz
Reminder that the only planet where windows doesn’t steal your information is Jupiter.
Reminder that the only planet where windows doesn’t steal your information is Jupiter.
Ithanul
Ah yes...audio on linux.
Oh the joys at my former job on a system that was a RHEL base from top to bottom.
If lucky, issue was someone forgot to turn up a radio audio bar; otherwise, oh joy, something gone screwy either with audio driver, the sound control (note, this was custom desktop ingesting two headsets/mic setup for training combat air controllers), or one of the master audio servers went side ways.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@jwz I haven't figured out how to use jack2 with the integrated USB audio device of my 22 channel mixer without creating a permanent hissing background noise as soon as jackd starts. It's not very loud, but it's very annoying, and I can't record any decent audio like that. All I want to do is route the audio outputs all of my synthesizers and my drum machine through the mixer and record them on my HDD.
madcap 
@jwz Well, it's a planet exclusively inhabited by robots. Maybe that's the answer.
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@jwz I heard that. Well, not on my Linux desktop, but...
exu0@jwz that's a better result than any other OS has
Luo Binghe baculum truther@jwz what about Bluetooth, tho
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][eWhat do the probes use it for? Seems like the utility of a mic is limited & the utility of a speaker is nil, but perhaps there are uses I haven't considered...
@enkiv2 It's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/audio/
halcy 
@jwz this is how I want every movie or documentary about Mars to start now. „imagine. a planet where 100% of all linux systems have working audio“, cut to location title card wide shot of the martian surface with no further explanation
Daniel, aka. CactiChameleon9@jwz Audio is overrated anyway 🤣🙃
S_H_K*For now