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Robey ☠️Dec 21, 2024

current debian no longer writes to syslog 😦

if you look in /var/log, someone left a README file.

the README says "you are looking for logs? but you cannot find them?" and continues in broken english, smugly telling you that systemd has made logs obsolete, and you should use "journal cattle" to ask politely for your own logs.

[did you just tell me to fuck off, jim?]

if you run journal cattle, it shows a page of syslog from april. if you hit G to go to the end, it hangs forever.

[slow clap]

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jgeorge Dec 21, 2024

@robey You’ve been Potteringed!

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aks Dec 21, 2024

@jgeorge @robey

I recently started using FreeBSD on my desktop and I was smugly bragging about not needing pulseaudio anymore until one day I discovered that Firefox actually starts it on demand. I've been Poetteringed too!

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Sam Dec 24, 2024

Build your Firefox from ports! It's a compile option there (enabled by default, unfortunately, so pkg pulls it in) so you can presumably avoid dealing with that bit of shovelware in exchange for a few hours of compile time -- well worth the trade in my opinion.

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aks Dec 24, 2024

@sam I'll try it out when I get back if I can enable OSS support. Although I'm slightly scared that either there's a reason OSS isn't the default in the port, and/or that the frequent browser updates means too much recompiling.

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Sam

I don't actually use Firefox on that box (qutebrowser has too great a UX lead on Tridactyl), so I can't speak to the experience itself, but the audio options section says OSS is always enabled. There are flags for ALSA, jack, Pulseaudio, and sndio (ALSA the only one disabled by default, if I remember correctly), but they're additional rather than replacements. Definitely makes me wonder/worry why they're on by default, too.