It’s always been midnight.

I wonder if Bezos, Musk, or Zuckerberg have ever closed their eyes and asked, “What can I do to help?” Probably not, right?

I’m sure you’ve spent a lot of time trying different things, this is what I found:

• In Linux Mint’s sound settings (Applications -> Preferences -> Sound), under the Hardware tab, choose a profile that does NOT mention anything digital or IEC. For example, select “Analog Stereo Duplex.” This can help PulseAudio avoid blocking the digital output and allow passthrough to work properly through ALSA.

• Use alsamixer in a terminal to select the motherboard’s sound device and ensure SPDIF outputs are enabled and not muted. Sometimes SPDIF is muted by default.

• In terminal, run gstreamer-properties and set Default Output to ALSA with the digital device as the output. This bypasses PulseAudio and can solve passthrough issues.

Not actually sure if any of that will help, but I tried. 😂

Realistically it’s mostly about compatibility and cost. It’s common to have the mentality of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” even when optimizations would improve efficiency and reduce costs in the long term. If you can’t justify the cost to transition, and clearly demonstrate the time/cost savings, then executives will not give a single shit.

What hoops? Installing the NVIDIA drivers is pretty straight forward.

What (simple) audio setup? Does it rely on proprietary software?

The only thing a beginner needs to know is Linux Mint. I think any time anyone shows curiosity in trying Linux, it should be stressed that there’s a really simple and “safe” way to start, which would be through Linux Mint.

The orange man is still doing stuff.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-hegseth-celebrate-navys-250th-anniversary-at-naval-station-norfolk

89 million Americans didn’t vote in 2024, roughly 36% of all eligible voters, over 1/3rd.

She is the only one I’ll vote for. No compromise. AOC or no vote.

Exactly, so I guess it doesn’t matter regardless.

Sounds inefficient. It’s almost like they’re just numbers on a computer screen.

Harvard’s endowment is $53 billion. Explain exactly why they need tax payer money when the fed is already extremely in debt that’s never going to be paid back? Seriously fuck the Trump administration, but this is a non-partisan issue.

Good thing we have plenty of work for all those computer science graduates whose jobs are now being done by AI.