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What are the three most recent pain points you have encountered on your primary system? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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OneDrive mirroring

Stop telling me that I am out of storage, I did not ask you to put my files there.

Nvidia Linux drivers

A 2 month old driver from a desktop 3070 failed to detect a laptop 3050, and I had to chroot to remove the offending driver, buuuut

Rescue USB

So it turns out the default Tumbleweed ISO is NOT a live image. Recue didn't work nor did usb boot until I realised. Burned LMDE onto the usb key, and I was able to get back up and running relatively quickly.

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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A bizarre audio issue I've been dealing with for months where some applications (discord, steam) will stop playing sounds when I receive a message after some random amount of time (days usually) restarting pipewire.pulseaudio and relaunching the applications fixes it but it's annoying not realizing someone messaged me until hours later.

Discord flickering on Nvidia beta drivers when everything else works great now

For a minute there when my roommates window AC unit kicked on it sometimes blew the circuit my PC is on, and for some reason that was resetting my BIOS settings causing my PC to try to boot from the wrong drive. Dunno what that was about but it stopped happening so w/e

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

A bizarre audio issue I've been dealing with for months where some applications (discord, steam) will stop playing sounds when I receive a message after some random amount of time (days usually) restarting pipewire.pulseaudio and relaunching the applications fixes it but it's annoying not realizing someone messaged me until hours later.

I can't remember how I fixed this, but I fixed this. I think I had to force it to use a specific sample rate.