I adapted the normalizer Sink from that post to be a normalizer Source, replaced the local paths with the system lib names, made a mistake, fixed it, got everything hookes up as I think it should be. How it performs under load remains to be seen, and which order noise cancel and nornalizer go will be tinkered with, but at least the service restarts and everything looks fine.

May life be as kind to you as you have been to me.

Who gets to decide what’s on the ticket and what’s not? The party?

In so far as the party chooses the candidate to put on it and the platform they run on, yes. Unfortunately, both major parties’ leaders are genocidal and rather set in their ways. Rig primaries, ignore popularity of progressive candidates, you know the deal.

then the thing that separates the US system from a one-party state is that we also have a brazenly fascist party looking to undermine democracy at every turn.

In one-party states, democracy has already been hollowed out, so in a roundabout way:

is the presence of the Republican party the thing that makes the US system more democratic?

It signals that there is still some democracy left to undermine. However, if the Republicans were wiped off the electoral map, people could still vote third party, form a progressive opposition and attempt to wrest control of tne Democrats thay way, while a one-party state wouldn’t even have that option. Granted, handing the Democrats full control would be a bad idea too, but it serves as illustration.

This is just once again asserting this ideological framework of lesser evilism that I reject.

Maybe I’m just fundamentally misunderstanding what your moral framework actually is.

Once they start committing crimes, you stop caring how many they commit, because at that point it’s all just evil? Your response to the Trolley Problem wouldn’t be “I divert it to save lives” or “I refrain because I can’t condemn one person to death”, just “What does it matter? People die either anyway.”

Is “voted for someone who would have supported genocide” a worse offense than “DOGE gutting government agencies, ICE terrorising citizens, illegal tariffs sabotaging economy to the detriment of the people, participating in genocide, murdering civilians to drive up oil prices, all the while attempting to ensure that nothing - no vote, no protest, no attempt at insurrection - will ever stop this or pry loose the claws of the winners of capitalism, but at least I get to wash my hands in innocence”?

Because then I will agree with those who think your ideology is stupid, not for its motives but for its short-sightedness. If it is more important to you that you have a pristine conscience than that all the people fucked over by this regime, then I hope the moral high ground protects you from leopards coming to eat your face.

You don’t even want people to voice their opposition to the existing parties, much less to the system in general,

I think you have confused me with someone else, because I very much criticise this system as being fucked, which is also why I advocate for building support for change from the bottom up: A new system needs to be set on a foundation more solid than “lesser evil”. In local, municipal, primary elections, expressing support for progressive candidates is crucial, because the stakes for losing to the Spoiler Effect are generally less severe…

even in a presidential vote

…except in a presidential vote in a system that is way too top-heavy anyways.

that, for the vast majority of Americans, not living in swing states, is a meaningless symbolic gesture anyway.

If it makes no difference, absolutely, vote third party for the visibility, so long as you vote at all. Political analysts can only guess what non-voters want (or whether they just couldn’t vote), which makes apathy the worst illness to democracy: If you vote for something else, your vote at least expresses what you want rather than what you don’t.

It’s nothing but procrastination.

Then what do you call inaction? Or are you hoping it gets so bad people start revolting, but not so bad they can no longer revolt?

And I don’t subscribe to the ideology of all or nothing. “Better to compromise all values than only some.” Genocide wasn’t on the ticket. Other issues were. If your deeply held conviction is that ICE and all this shit (including genocide) is better than the alternative, I think your priorities are fucked.

This isn’t about shame, it’s about trying to find a strategy for tackling this shit (liberalism, capitalism, fascism) effectively. We want the same thing, we just don’t agree about the methods, that’s what I’m trying to make a case about: Build progressive support from the ground up, where the stakes aren’t as high, delay the dismantling of liberties and privacy that would make resistance and change harder, vote anti-fascist to buy time to organise resistance.

That was ten years ago.

Feels like I’ve aged twenty.

It’s an exaggeration, for sure (passive complacency can’t ever be as bad as active complicity), but the general sentiment of looking at the choice between Harris a fucking Nazi who was quite upfront about his plans, and going “Eh, doesn’t make a difference” is stupid. For all her many faults, Harris’ tenure couldn’t have gotten this bad, if for no other reason than the Democrats’ obnoxiously naive insistence on sticking to certain traditions and conventions even if the other side doesn’t (but never actually enforcing those traditions - it’s one thing to figut one-handed, but if the other doesn’t, the moral high ground makes for a nice castle to be stuck under siege in).

o7

Thanks for remembering, checking and getting back to me! I’ll look into that threadirqs thing, thanks for the pointer!

I absolutely wasn’t expecting a helpful response under a meme, so thank you very much for taking the time to write it!

anytime your system is too busy to keep the buffers filled you get crackling

I’d have to test that more thoroughly, but I do think that lines up with the timing of the issues.

You can increase the quantum with this command. This only lasts until pipewire restarts:

Can I put that in some config to make it stick?

I’m admittedly very junior to pipewire config, so most of what I have is copied from the internet, tweaked for node names / descriptions, but I generally like working with config files and slowly learning what all that stuff in there means.

I have two loopbacks (I like having music and games each grouped separately from other audio), an echo-cancel and a noise cancel (filter-chain with a single rnnoise node), all configured via .conf files. As an aside, is there a “best order” to chain echo cancel and noise cancel?

Echo cancel seems to have a quantum/rate of 480/48000 across the board. Loopbacks, rnnoise and alsa_output (my headset) all have 0/0. I imagine it makes sense for the Loopbacks and rnnoise, but should it be something else for the main output?

By default pipewire doesn’t do any ‘mic boost’, as Windows calls it. You can get the same effect by raising the maximum volume.

Well, it seemed to work just fine without echo cancel, if I capture the mic directly, but putting it through echo cancel (with or without noise cancel) seems to reduce the gain significantly.

I’m gonna mess with the volume sliders and see which ones I can crank up to fix that issue.

But I’m confused why that issue would occur in the first place and if I have something misconfigured.

Alternatively, you can use EasyEffects to add a compressor. This will boost your mic volume and also prevent it from getting too loud

Sounds like a compressor would be a good idea to have anyway. Is that also doable through the config? I’m not opposed to graphical tools, I just feel like working with the config directly is more educational. It’s also more prone to screwing things up, but that’s just bonus lessons on what not to do.

Sometimes apps, like Discord, will do this signal processing for you

Curiously, the reason I looked at echo-cancel in the first place is that Discord’s own echo fucks with things, cutting me out at times while also not cancelling the echo at others.

My pipewire seems to have issues with crackling audio and severely dampening my mic and I have no clue why.

Still better than Windows.

Recovering AMAB?