Ramblings about degoogle-ing, and going further for the fun of it.

I just wanted to shout out TRMNL.

They have an interesting product, and they're trying to build a business that includes a lot of open source aspects.

The device that they sell is proprietary, but it's also just an ESP32, screen, enclosure, and battery, with a custom PCB for convenience. They plan to add instructions to build your own device, and their firmware is open source under a GPLv3 license.

By default, their device connects to their servers, and they have a slick web configuration tool for people who don't care about having smart devices call home, but you can easily modify the firmware to connect to your own self-hosted server instead. As of this evening, both the Phoenix and Sinatra server implementations are open source under an MIT license after I pointed out that they had no license in an issue, and they pretty much immediately updated the repositories.

There are two other repositories that they have not added a license to, but given their swift response, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and I would expect them to be updated shortly.

They have not shared all of the plugins that are available on their hosted service for use on a self-hosted instance, but a few are available for use and there are many plugins made by others available as well!

As soon as they update those last two repositories, I plan to pre-order one (unlike the conceptually cool VU Dials who's creators still have not added a license even after being called out by the co-creator of Rocky Linux).

The way he just blew off the 50/50 split criticism was pretty gross. Basing it off of Youtube's bad-relative-to-the-rest-of-the-market 45/55 split, and then making it worse is not great, especially when coming from someone who makes YouTube content for a living.

I'm having an annoying issue with pipewire. I have a Scarlett 8i6 audio interface. I have it set to Pro Audio so that I can access all the input and output channels, and I have virtual devices defined to allow applications to access groups of channels as discrete devices.

For some reason, all applications keep automatically switching to my secondary (mono) output. I can sometimes get them to switch to my primary stereo output, but it's only ever a one-off and they will switch back when the current media is done playing. any thoughts?

config:

context.modules = [
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Primary - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_primary"
                media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                audio.position = [ FL FR ]
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "playback.scarlett_8i6_primary"
                audio.position = [ AUX0 AUX1 ]
                target.object = "alsa_output.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-output-0"
                stream.dont-remix = true
                node.passive = true
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Secondary (Mono) - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_secondary"
                media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "playback.scarlett_8i6_secondary"
                audio.position = [ AUX2 ]
                target.object = "alsa_output.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-output-0"
                stream.dont-remix = true
                node.passive = true
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Microphone - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_mic"
                audio.position = [ AUX0 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_mic"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Instrument - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_inst"
                audio.position = [ AUX1 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_inst"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Mix - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_mix"
                audio.position = [ AUX2 AUX3 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_mix"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ FL FR ]
            }
        }
    }
]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6395416

Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."

Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."

I moved halfway across the US this summer. It's taken me a while to get my office/workshop put back together, but today I pretty much finished it.