Switching back to pulseaudio and after one day I did not hear a single stutter while listening to music and working, so I'd say this is indeed a pipewire issue.
I'm too exhausted from linux shenanigans to tackle this problem this month, especially since pipewire does not actually benefit in any way.
To eliminate a hardware issue (it's a new device), I should probably try pulseaudio for a day to see if it also stutters.
My experience with PipeWire so far: Works mostly as a drop-in for PulseAudio, but echo cancellation is absolutely undocumented and even worse to setup than in PA.
The thing that kills it for me however is, under the SLIGHTEST load the audio starts stuttering and crackling, which is absolutely unacceptable. I'll poke it for another hour or so and then go back to PulseAudio, because, srsly, one job.
tech rant
Well, I think I found my vram issues. It's… i3, the, you know, minimalist window manager, which seems to render big empty pixmaps for each window: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3479
I can reproduce this by just opening ten empty consoles, which almost crash my whole system and the VRAM usage skyrockets. When hiding the window decorators, VRAM usage is down by a lot.
I'm so tired of this.
I actually moved away from awesomewm because I hated maintaining the lua config file, but this is just… oof.
Und ja, es ist ziemlich sicher Linux und nicht die Hardware, weil… das BIOS-Logo wird auf dem externen Monitor angezeigt bevor der Kernel dran ist.
My new ThinkPad Z16 arrived yesterday and I am hit with some "new chipset"+linux problems, as is tradition:
- the BIOS regularly screams some L3 cache error correction error into the syslog, apparently that's a firmware bug and will be fixed soon
- X11 does not start directly after boot, because it can' find any graphics cards. I need to login into a VT and restart my DM, then it works. No clue what's going on here. I have some logs to investigate but prob just "wait for kernel firmware updates"
Hillel investigates why tech interviews
a) started asking questions about linked lists
b) never stopped
and dug up a bunch of nice historical context. Complete with research method narration, very good read! https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/linked-lists/
I also would be interested to know if this is a general difference between US and UK books? Both are published by Penguin Random House.
Bonus: some in-progress pictures.
Fun fact, HPL is pretty tough to drill through, compared to wood.
I am always suprised that a company as humongous as google does not have a "Show only nickname" option for profiles and all their products. Best I can get is "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME (NICKNAME)". So now I have to set my nickname as my first name and nothing as my last name (which thankfully is supported). Until of course they need my real name again for some legal bullshit.
TIL about fanned and true temperament frets:
https://guitargearfinder.com/faq/fanned-frets-explained/
Cares about user experience. Likes it when the pixels align. Tries to build better spaces.