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[Solved] How to make Pulseaudio put microphone on zero always on Linux ? (lemmy.ml)

I’ve looked at suggestions on StackExchange and made some changes to files in /etc but after each login or reboot it is up to 100 % again in pavucontrol. On this computer I hardly ever use the speakers, and I want the microphone muted, always, so I guess I could even block list a few kernel modules for sound (which ones ?)....

lemmyreader,

Sure. The solution was already in the edit part in the post. The solution that worked for me was to switch to Dummy in Pavucontrol.

lemmyreader,

OP wrote “OS or FOSS”. What is the license for Matrix, btw ?

lemmyreader,

Few years ago I had a collection of maybe fifteen old disks, which I wanted to get rid of, by means of recycling. First I wanted to check the content and then format all so I put them in an external enclosure. It turned out that some disks were unusable. A closer inspection showed that these were all a certain brand and type (Forgot whether it was Seagate or Maxtor or WD). These disks would probably still do fine in a desktop or server computer (Which I no longer had at home) but not with the external enclosure. Perhaps your enclosure is the bottleneck here as well.

lemmyreader,

TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

TIL that Snapchat is an app used in 2024 without E2EE, Wikipedia article on Snapchat :

Encryption

In January 2018, Snapchat introduced the use of end-to-end encryption in the application but only for snaps (pictures and video), according to a Snapchat security engineer presenting at the January 2019 Real World Crypto Conference.[138][139][140] As of the January 2019 conference Snapchat had plans to introduce end-to-end encryption for text messages and group chats in the future.[141]

lemmyreader,

Ah, yes, good one. (I feel dumb now, time to catch some sleep) 👍

lemmyreader,

Yes, sure thing, I can imagine that, with millions of people using WhatsApp, Signal and what not. I can also imagine that not everyone on the planet has a smart phone and Internet access yet, due to poverty or other reasons. And in the Western world there are likely still elderly people who have never even touched a smart phone and have a dumb phone. This new app could be useful for people who still want to use 2G with dumb phones.

lemmyreader,

Ubuntu uses LTS with five year support, which is why they like to keep a lot of software versions back. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu I think. PPA is something you can add to Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Linux distributions to have newer or specific software repositories as extra on your system. Here’s a guide on PPA : itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/

lemmyreader,

According to that article mentioned in my earlier comment you won’t need the nerdfonts.

lemmyreader, (edited )

There’s a PPA for neovim, currently at 0.7.x : launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stableOh, sorry, I see NvChad wants 0.9.4 and Nerdfonts (Though not a hard requirement : docs.rockylinux.org/books/nvchad/nerd_fonts/).

launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/…/unstable -> 0.10.x

lemmyreader,

Arch Linux, rolling Linux distribution, would give you the newest stable software, with probably new application features, but you can use distrobox, podman-toolbox, VirtualBox, KVM (QEMU) or a live Linux cd image to play with Arch Linux every now and then, without having to install it :)

lemmyreader,

Yes. I know Manjaro got bad press several times, about their SSL cert and about firing their treasurer but as a Linux distribution Manjaro is pretty decent for the average user, in my opinion.

lemmyreader,

If you like Arch-based, there’s Manjaro and EndeavourOS.

lemmyreader,

Both Snap and Flatpak provide an easy install for the really old, pre 1997, NCSA Mosaic browser. The Snap page gives a hint about how this was done :

Built from source code hosted at: github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic Thanks to John Lenton for the snapcraft config.

This suggests that if you can build the ROS 1 from source, you have Flatpak and Snap as option, and maybe also AppImage.

Besides that there is also Linux KVM (QEMU) which may perform better than VirtualBox. Cannot find a good page for Ubuntu on it, but here’s the KVM entry of the excellent Arch Linux wiki wiki.archlinux.org/title/KVM

What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora?

I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I...

lemmyreader,

Manjaro, even though not loved by most, does this, Arch based but few updates per time unit.

lemmyreader,

You can install netguard from F-Droid and then use the allow and block list options to block everything Google that you will not need.

lemmyreader,

Yes, agreed with the other comment. Did you check uptime command ? In your system info it shows Uptime : 22 mins. In a terminal you can also type uptime or w

lemmyreader,

Firewall for incoming traffic :

  • If you a home user with your computer or laptop inside a LAN you would not really need a firewall, unless you start to use applications which expose its ports to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 (I believe Redis server software did this a few years ago) and do not trust other users or devices (smart home devices, phones, tablets, modems, switches and so on) inside your LAN.
  • If you are running a server with just a few services, for example ssh, smtp, https, some hosting company people I knew argue that no firewall is needed. I am not sure, my knowledge is lacking.

Application firewalls, watching also outgoing traffic :

If you compare Linux with some other Operating System you will see that on Linux for years an application firewall was non existing. But there is a choice now : opensnitch This can be useful if you run desktop applications that you do not fully trust, or want more control.

lemmyreader,

The Snapchat has a word-filter suggestion makes most sense. But then again Cloudflare is very popular on the Internet as the cheap and well-known MITM anti-DDOS tool.

I haven’t read much about i2p, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the government has their paws in there too.

You will have to trust something if you want to communicate, there’s also GNUnet, ZeroNet, DeltaChat, and probably a lot more.

lemmyreader,

Welcome to the Penguin party ! 🐧 And thanks for sharing your story.

lemmyreader,

Thanks for the reminder :)

lemmyreader,

If you like NixOS for its packages, you can install a Systemd free OS, and then add Nix package manager. For example Nix-bin is packaged for Debian and the Systemd free Devuan : pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=pa… Here is a very old howto for Void Linux, but maybe still works : voidlinux.org/…/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.htm…

lemmyreader,

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