if your session is still running you can use env to help reconstruct it

i take back what i said; i just discovered that suse isn’t going to support opensuse anymore.

i always felt that the old dell powerconnect line of switches’ operating system was a knockoff of cisco’s; so i can say with confidence that, that sticker was probably more useful than the old powerconnects. lol

i used to have a 2013 macbook air from the electronics disposal bin and used it for five years as my daily driver. i don’t know how well it would do considering all your audio related constraints; but in your shoes i would do some quick and dirty testing with a live linux distribution on usb drive.

i would go with elive because it comes preinstalled with proprietary software; including things for multimedia, like codecs. you could also do it w any other distro, but why not save yourself the extra steps; since we’re only looking for breadcrumbs to follow anyways.

i used to use a headset w a usb audio dongle circa 2002 on red hat linux and the breadcrumbs i found back then led me to discover that getting it to work required the proprietary software that the distros wouldn’t carry because of the licensing. so i spent days tearing apart my new installation trying to get it to work with the help of strangers on internet linux forums and ultimately failed; i later succeeded with mandrake linux and ran with that for about 3ish years before switching to debian and later elive.

elive has already figured out all the intricate details necessary to get that software to work and i’m inclined to believe that they made significant improvements over the last 20ish years. you can use the fruits of their labor for a quick and non-invasive test that can be the first breadcrumb that leads you to whatever you end up using for your two machines while ensuring your audio requirements will be met; maybe elive can also help with other proprietary software or maybe it’s people on the software that they use that are like yours.

also: you lost me on Focusrite Audio-Interface paragraph so i don’t understand how it fits into any of this.

do you have any intel related packages in your system? you can search with something like apt-cache search intel

if it turns out you don’t and you’re certain that it’s okay for you then you can probably add a repository for it.

i can’t stress enough the part where you need to be certain that you need it.

i use xfce, but entirely because it worked well when 16 megabytes of ram was considered average and it literally took almost a half hour to log in and start using a browser on both gnome and kde.

is mate as lightweight as xfce?

status quo joe is not going to do anything besides shore up the american empire’s designs as best he can against trump.

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

the touch screen support was TERRIBLE, but it was helped a lot by the physical slide-out keyboard and i never got the phone capabilities to work correctly, but i heard from my colleagues at the time that some of them had figured it out.

Well duh, a comparatively tiny amount of minorities changing how they vote or not voting doesn’t matter if A MAJORITY of all white people can’t be counted on to vote for racism.

fixed it for you.

in case you didn’t know: democrats haven’t had the majority white vote since the 1960’s

… nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people

same here; but only because of the support like red hat’s and canonical’s

fwiw: it was viable when i had the first android released to the public; it was an HTC and with debian.

With imperative style, you have a lot of implicit state that you need to know to figure out what actually happened. So, you end up having to go through the steps of building that state up before you can start figuring out what went wrong.

i think i struggle with this part the most since i’m entirely self taught and relied on very old methods for writing my source since the educational material i used was the most common and freely available at the time i starting doing development work. i’ve learned that it was acceptably sufficient for the IT-based problems that i was trying to solve at the time i learned it and that legacy style has been keeping me at a disadvantage.

if seen some of the newer style of debugging like the one you’re shared from the young fresh graduate developers who are lucky enough to be spared the slog of a over decade within “customer service” oriented side of the tech industry umbrella and it’s painfully evident to me how vastly superior it is compared to the old methods that i taught myself and it’s encouraged me to seek a degree to help me master them and my new job will make that degree free for me; which matters A LOT as an american considering the price tag it entails.

opensuse was my shortest experiment when i used to distro hop because of how old their software seemed to be. (ie old like debian stable).

this was almost 20 years; has it gotten better?

they couldn’t do it without us.

but it’s so much easier to put in echo "if you can see this it worked" 100 times in your source. lol

And then of course, there should be ways to make money in Free / Libre to convince those who care only about how big their pockets are. Donations do not cut it. They are good, but they feel pathetic in comparison to what a proprietary alternative makes. There should be a way to make money without restricting freedom.

they make that money because our system restricts that freedom and it’s intentional.

ever since i became a software developer, my work has been 100% based off of extending the capabilities of open source projects beyond their base capabilities that’s available to the public. (ie turning it from a hobby project into enterprise worthy product). my task masters make billions of dollars off of the efforts of those volunteers who will never see a dime or even be aware of the details needed to get their fair share that they rightly deserve. the legal “protections” put in place to help open source projects like gnu or copy-left licenses is so easily curtailed that my management and senior engineers literally laugh at it sometimes when deciding which scraps are useless enough not to make money for the company and then report it back to comply with the copy-left. those things that they report back are MINUSCULE compared to what they actually have and they milk it to look like they’re actually compliant.

the people who are aware of this fact are, like me, are trapped into legally binding non-disclosure agreements resulting in thousands of us who are aware that we’re profiting off the blood, sweat, and tears of people like you and our system assures us that our livelihoods & freedom will be permanently altered in some of the worst ways possible if we made you aware of exactly how we profited. this is one of those evils that i felt i could no longer keep doing, which is one the core reason why i want to stop doing this.

like you, i don’t think that they’re bad people. it’s simply that your environment determines your actions and these people are so placed that they’re disconnected from the impacts of what their actions are having on humanity because of those ridiculously high salaries; this encourages their worst, material impulses and makes them believe that anyone doing what i’m doing is simply a malcontent or a shitty developer. it’s a open secret in my industry that a lot of people do what i’m doing and the most privileged among us will sometimes derisively use groupthink “common sense” stereotypes to attack the person doing it; it’s so bad that most who do it have learned to say that they want a “change” or to “give back” to help them keep the door open should they decide to ever return.

HRIS sellers are also adding them as value added bonus to help companies weed out “undesirable” people.

it’s texas so both are true. lol

clearing my head is why i’m doing it too

it might as well be since they’re all black pizza boxes with holes. lol