Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows

Chris Ahlstrom wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.

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Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading
126 packages and a new kernel :)

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Just upgraded on the Debian Sid box, and aptitude wanted to remove skanlite
(the scanner I use for documents)!
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So I look at the next solution, which says to keep the related packages at
their current version.

It turned out that the update broke Qt. Skanlite, qsynth, skanlite.... none
would work.  I had to go back into aptitude, update again, and select a
different solution.

Hardware note: I saw a cheap ($7) USB-to-3.5mm headphone jack and bought it so
that I could free up my Berhinger UCA202 audio codec box. Plugged into a USB-2
port on the back of the mini PC, plugged in my speakers, tweaked mpd.conf and
used pavucontrol to make that dongle the default audio output.

Also edited .xbindkeys (changed "CODEC" to "Audio" to reflect the new device's
name as shown via "aplay -l") to control the new device using the amixer app.

Nice change o' pace.

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The early worm gets the bird.