I'm pretty sure my Arches with PipeWire audio don't have it if that's of any use to you.

I have used PulseAudio and PipeWire for years and the last few years have preffered the latter when installing all the optional dependencies.

Then again if it ain't broke 🤷‍♂️

It may be a little too late but if you have a chance to use a feature like btrfs snapshots (+time shift) it can be a game changer.

Any time you need to do something risky to the OS you can just snapshot before like installing 1000 packages, or Nvidia driver update, you can just revert to the old working version by swapping the names on the snapshot and is subvolume.

If you dislike telemetry,

Audacity => Tenacity

Firefox => LibreWolf or FireDragon (GraudaLinux default, good in telemetry respects IIRC)

You may like btop, Mission Control,

Avoid any terminals and editors that advertise as "AI" -- there were some big ones recently but the community thankfully overall was like nah.

Get some decent browser extensions, ublockorigin, privacy badger, libredirect

some people like to pihole their network, opensense/pfsense/ddwrt router is nice to have

AVAHI broadcasts your services on the LAN IIRC.

Obviously vscode has telemetry, if you use that try vscodium IIRC, personally I use neither but that's just me.

PLZ Add Publisher Launcher, it's unfair that friends find me on steam and not my super favorite publisher fancy go clicky web 3.0 cloud store with digital lucrative dlc lootboxes for my simple consoomer satiation.

PLZ make it so if cheats r detect that GameApp.exe explodes the battery in their laptop.

Scratch that, explode the Solomonite.

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12.1" Damn. I would have gotten excited if it was a 6-8" device

The Web Browser is the new TeleVision.

There is too much financial power to corrupt for us to win this fight.

The way out is to ditch HTTPS, HTML & CSS and create a new spec that is purposely limited in its scope suchas Gopher or Gemini (although I might argue Gemini is slightly too narrow as I think it would need Images, Audio & Video and maybe Input Forms depending on scope)

HTTP & HTML must die. It had a good run, it's time for a new Hyper v2 world outside the mainstream downtown doofus hangouts of social media & Advertising impersonating Internet Things like search, social & email.

We need a new web browser without all the legacy garbage & complexities. Without the DRM corruption shoehorned by Amazon, Disney, Netflix & Google.

And it needs to be limited by design to just what is needed so financial interests can't corrupt & screw it up.

This is called Controlled Opposition.

The Oil Companies do the same thing -- fund the leaders of anti-oil activists in countries where they are not #1 and use them as a proxy to target and harm their competitors.

Profit. Rinse & repeat.

Mafia tactics. The oil companies let government money and investors innovate in the solar industry and pay all the upfront costs. Then did a controlled collapsed and bought the companies IP up in bankruptcy for pennies to the dollar. And now that the oil companies own the Patents & IP it's totally okay for you to morally buy their products.

The bottom line is that The House Always Wins and what matters is who is allowed to collect the money for the grift. Territory of who is allowed to buy & sell on what streets.

We would be better off if Firefox didn't exist and the EU broke up Google for Anti-trust. At least then Manifest v3.0 DRM might not have come to be.

So they're going to ask the TV manufacturers to install the ban on your privately owned device? 😂😂😂

Yeah nobody could have seen this coming when they made TVs have a operating system 🤣🤣🤣

Join with the rest of us in refusing to buy Spy Daddy TVs.

Boycott HDMI as well. It's not just a Video and Audio cable, it had communication & internet sharing as well, and it's Absolutely Proprietary.

Why does a monitor need a secret internet connection piggybacked over video? It doesn't.

I was incorrect about the aspect ratio it's 3:2 not 16:9 and I think 3:2 is fine especially at 2160x1440p.

Still with the dialogs on the left and right anything except minimal would make the drawing area small taking the left and right.

I did notice it on sale, maybe if you have humble expectations it would be okay for sketching, but if you are used to better quality things or larger draw surfaces you might not be easily impressed.

I was kind of turned off by the keeb* being sold separately, also wasnt the aspect ratio meh.

Rule of thumb larger screen or surface means more fluid strokes, thus smaller screen means more fine motor skills and more tension in the hand and less* fluidity in the work.

Goodbye Internet v1.0

Grab yourself a Satellite phone, done.

Yes, vote with your dollar. That's all these companies understand. The only way to win is not to play and say no to these data syphon extortion schemes.

Democracy FTW

TCPIP stacks hate this one trick

Laughs in DVORAK. This is some pretty funny Schitzotroll.

Wow that's so cool, yes this is very similar to what I'm trying to do, copy to a predesignated "register" and then recall it, be it A B C or 1 2 3 ...

Sway is almost perfection, consistent, reliable, simple, doesn't lock up. If anyone hacks in window controls let me know, more convenient for HTPC Big Screen Sway.