He could take a bit of a gamble, do some Linux as a comparison and see if that draws viewers too, maybe some attention from those that are curious about Linux but not enough to actually delve into the topic themselves (or deterred by the reputation of Linux being complicated).
Choosing a suitable distribution might be a challenge, particularly because some distro elitists will inevitably come to dunk on his choice and he might not want the comment section to be clogged by distro wars (particularly if the majority of viewers, as you suggested, are Windows users and will find that off-putting).
For future readers looking to set separate default pulseaudio or pipewire sinks for individual apps, this his how I accomplished it.
If you’re using pipewire config, sink_name will be called node.name in the capture.props of the module.
For flatpak apps, I used this per-user override only for my current user: flatpak override --user --env=PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) (full application name)
For example: flatpak override --user --env=PULSE_SINK=live_sink com.spotify.Client
For steam games, insert the respective environment variable into the launch options if you already have some, or otherwise put PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) %command% in there.
Steam Tinker Launch maintains a gamecfgs/customvars/(Game ID).conf config file for each game to set custom environment variables in, which you can most conveniently find through from the launcher’s Main Menu > Editor > find the customvars entry. In there, just put the line PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) and you’ll be good to go.
The pulse sink environment variable worked perfectly. My apps now launch with the correct sink set. That solves the bulk of my issue. The other thing is just an occasional nuisance. Thanks for that pointer!
What would the combine sink be for? Joining the two loopback sinks into a third? I don’t see where I would need another sink.
Or are you saying to replace the loopbacks with combines, each being recorded by OBS while also forwarding the audio to my headphones? I can try that. I will have to see if it still allows me to change the volumes separately for OBS and my headphones.
If I wanted to persist that setup, I would have to add it to my config. Given I’m trying to migrate to pipewire, what would be the equivalent pw config setup? I could just put the command(s) into context.exec, but is that really the “proper” way instead of using pipewire modules?
1: Technically, that’s “damn awesome”. The more literal translation of fucking would involve the word “fick”, the most idiomatic version “verfickt geil”. I don’t really see it used even in rougher slang, so I feel like the general equivalent in terms of usage would be “verdammt”.
They’d have to almost unanimously decide that being entirely unanimous is no longer required, bending the rules to change the rules, because that is the only way to unfuck themselves. Let Hungary object, but if they’re alone, write it into law anyway. What are they gonna do, leave? I guess if their membership is no longer useful to Russia, they might.
That may well be the reason they were noted in the first place, but the article makes no further mention of them if they were relevant, so it’s still an editorial choice whether to include that detail. There is no informational value to it, it doesn’t affect the rest of the article, just a minor note “fast plane make boom” because it’s cool.
Still reading the article, but I felt compled to comment on the level of detail:
Both [fighter jets] […] reached supersonic speeds, which generated sonic booms on the way to the Puget Sound area. [emphasis added]
Are these sonic booms relevant to the actual incident? Probably not. But the author decided it was part of the events and decided to include it and I find that endearing.
How dare he zip past the congestion with a low-density vehicle instead of contributing to it, wasting fuel (whatever type) and making things worse for everyone like a proper, respectable, carbrained citizen?
Almost as bad as subways, I tell you! Those bastards take a whole chunk of people past the traffic at once, the audacity 😤
Sarcasm aside, I do think people need this angle pointed out to them: Low-density transport options for those where they make sense help those for whom it doesn’t. The more short-range traffic happens on bikes, in busses and (light) rail, the more space there will be on the streets.