I think you misunderstood my position, anything non-free including firmware that has potential insecurities, or backdoors, is a blob to me.  You are thinking of OpenBSD's thinking on blobs, but that isn't the FSF/GNU or even my belief.

Also, their commerical interests are bullshit.  I know they couldn't care less, but I in fact do care, thus I will never use anything with an intel me equivelant enabled at all, as long as I can.   

I say their commercial interests are bs, though, because the way they accomplish their goals is just... phenomenally messed up.

Its not the fact that the hardware isn't open source that is the ONLY problem, its actually the fact that it is laden with pointless DRM that requires non-free firmware to run, for, things like wifi, graphics and sound even...

I knew microsoft, apple, google were bad, but I didn't know raspberrypi people were bad also...

smh...

If all hardware was under at least an mit license instead of that absurdly corrupt all rights reserved license,  that would be a step in the right direction.

But nope, alas... that will probably never happen for most mainstream hardware.  Greed/Power is just too enticing for many of these big corporations.

I guess to end this thought, all hardware should have optionally free licenses.  Trademarks of course are a different matter as long as they don't go the road of mozilla, but yeah...

Anyways, rant done...

That is not a good sign to hear...

I really, really hope that this doesn't happen till the next millenium or never.

Such things are pure evil.

Unless Risc-V takes shape in the future... well you know.

That all being said, I recently learned that gen 5 processors and onward require blobs even for their sound! that's just plain bullshit.

It's bad enough that gen 5 processors have boot guard and blob for the graphics, but sound too now? lame...

Agreed, but even better than that, would be coreboot + me cleaner...

I got some computers with such stuff on it.  I will take ivy bridge issues or over the current and I use this sarcastically, "latest and the greatest"

Because these two things do not agree for me combined.  Aka, Latest = worst... at this time anyways...

As long as Risc-V isn't where it needs to be,  I will stick with what I have for most things.

Starfive gives me some hope though. It looks like it may be closer to sandy bridge, but oh well...

It is still open source though completely...

When the time is right, I will still probably use it.

Pocket Mnt Reform is coming! Potentially, in two years I bet!

Hmm... I had this problem once, every time I poweroff my devuan system and power it back on, its enabled all over again.

On an unrelated note, I can't use the FN F4 key combination to make devuan go into suspend mode.  I may make a separate issue for that, although...

its odd I am on beowulf, a stable release and it does this...

XFCE might be the problem for you, or it could be another mess that debian is allowing redhat to make.

hard to say...

Somewhat, lol.

But its also early where I am and its raining alot, so I won't be going anywhere today lol.

Also, the thread started in June man... just sayin. heh.

It's not like I necroed a three year old thread, now thats being bored! hehe...

I would say that what you just said here, is too kind to apple, they are much worse than that...

They are like google, only less dangerous.

I say less dangerous, because their changes dont have any effect on other hardware other than apple approved hardware.

Thus, Google is still 2x worse at least due to their stuff getting engrained in so many things.

Although Redhat is just as bad as Apple due to their sneaky methods of forcing systemd and other crap down peoples' throats.

Just my two cents.

That would make sense if its going to be releaesed in July,  good news though!

Hmm, I don't usually use alphas, on my system...

I usually wait till beta to actually consider using it. 

Unless I have a virtual machine of it, which isn't a bad idea.

I don't know what I will do, given my current focus, which is more or less Hyperbola, but its a thought to consider.

Hmm.... I didn't really understand how to do that... that being said, Dice's command context was smaller and actually more usable.

But it does have the same issue oddly enough.

I assume its the same problem in the sense of how often it fails. I will test more though and say otherwise if works more.

EDIT: Not even close, Dice's script seems to work more than 90% of the time.

Thank you Dice, you seem to know your software well.

Also here is what I did:

#!/bin/bash
find ~/Folder/ -type f -name '*.opus' | shuf -n 1 | xargs -d "\n" play

I would say given humankind's lack of intelligence, its probably more like less than a million...

lol... sorry, but I think your overestimating people's intelligence here... ;p

Not to be a downer, but the world is way too corporate for even a million probably.

Fascinating it is, your script does work with the modifications now, but... theres one small, catch...

This is what it looks like now:

#!/bin/bash
AUDIO=(
  $HOME/Zeal/Music*/*.{opus}
  $HOME/Zeal/Music*.opus
  $HOME/Zanra/Music*/*.{opus}
  $HOME/Zanra/Music*.opus
  $HOME/Kai/Music*/*.{opus}
  $HOME/Kai/Music*.opus
  $HOME/Drasu/Music*/*.{opus}
  $HOME/Drasu/Music*.opus
   /usr/share/sounds/alsa*.wav
)
LENGTH=${#AUDIO[@]}
PICK=$(( RANDOM % $LENGTH ))
play ${AUDIO[$PICK]}
echo ${AUDIO[@]}

And for some reason, it fails sometimes... to trigger, like 1/3 of the time it works for me. I wonder what I am doing wrong...

Gives me errors, despite my folders being there and such...

play WARN alsa: can't encode 0-bit Unknown or not applicable
play FAIL formats: can't open input file

This happens like 1/3 of the time. weird it is.

Hmm, it doesn't seem to pick a random audio to play, always plays the same one when I tried it.

I was going to use jwm's method to autostart it to be honest.

I am curious, though beyond that, how would I make it only pick one of those audios to play before script stopping.

And also, if there is a way to add code behind before the audio part,  say there is one master folder and it has 5 different folders to choose from... I think you know where I am going with this right?

That and figuring out why it doesn't randomly select a different one each time I trigger it, is what I need to figure out.