A place for my random thoughts about software
How does Linux move from an awake machine to a hibernating one? How does it then manage to restore all state? These questions led me to read way too much C in trying to figure out how this particular hardware/software boundary is navigated.
Forgetting your root password would initially seem like a problem requiring a full re-install, one that you can’t easily recover from without wiping everything away.
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.