Regular Reboots
Uptime is often considered a measure of system reliability, an indication that the running software is stable and can be counted on.
A place for my random thoughts about software
Uptime is often considered a measure of system reliability, an indication that the running software is stable and can be counted on.
Currently, in a default installation of Debian with the GNOME desktop,
Bluetooth headphones that require the AAC codec1 cannot be used.
As the Debian wiki outlines,
using the AAC codec over Bluetooth, while technically supported by
PipeWire, is explicitly disabled in Debian at this time.
This is because the fdk-aac
library needed to enable this support is currently
in the non-free
component of the repository, meaning that PipeWire, which
is in the main
component, cannot depend on it.
Such as, for example, any Apple AirPods, which only support AAC AFAICT. ↩
For an embarassingly long time, my shell has unnecessarily tried to initialize a console font in every kind of interactive terminal.
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted
that /some/path
and /some/path/
are the same.
Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key
after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
(The below was written by Rob Pike, copied here for posterity from The Wayback Machine)