With my humble apologies to the OP for this egregious digression:

Although my hearing is limited to ~10kHz (I'm getting old now) it is still has the time-domain discrimination required to appreciate the quality imparted by higher sampling rates than those imposed by the Red Book (CD) standard.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

And now back to the thread...

[1] Jackson, H. M., Capp, M. D. and Stuart, J. R., 'The audibility of typical digital audio filters in a high-fidelity playback system', 9174, 137th AES Convention, (2014).
[2] Gabor, D., 'Theory of Communication', Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 93, III, p.429, (November 1946). http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ji-1.1947.0015.
[3] Gabor, D., 'Acoustical Quanta and the Theory of Hearing', Nature, 159, pp.591–594, (1947). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/159591a0.
[4] Oppenheim, J. M. and Magnasco, M. O., 'Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle', Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 044301, (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.044301.
[5] Oppenheim, J. M., et al., 'Minimal Bounds on Nonlinearity in Auditory Processing' (Jan 2013). arXiv:1301.0513 q-bio.NC.
[6] Maka, M, Sobieszczyk, P, et al., 'Hearing overcomes uncertainty relation', Euro Physics News 46 #1, pp.27–31.

So Ubuntu is using systemd-resolved then.

If you read (or share) the entire file it probably explains that the content is managed by another program — usually either NetworkManager or resolvconf — and that any edits will be over-ridden. You should either make your edits to the configuration of the controlling program or stop that program from managing resolv.conf.

Try adding the options edns0 line as well. The round robin might be able to take advantage of the DNS extensions mandated by RFC 2671.

My VM also had that line. Perhaps the netinstall ISO needs a preseed line to correct the source.

Something like

d-i preseed/late_command string in-target sed -i 's|//pkgmaster.|//deb.|' /etc/apt/sources.list

Why are you attempting to address the soundcard directly? What is the point of creating asound.conf if the card is already set as the default output device?

I've just checked and Steam works fine in chimaera:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=34103#p34103

@OP: does elogind fix the problem?

Have you tried any other graphical authentication agents? For example lxqt-policykit (/usr/bin/lxqt-policykit-agent), lxpolkit (/usr/bin/lxpolkit), mate-polkit (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1) or polkit-kde-agent-1 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1).

In which case:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Hello $USER, please enter a countdown time
Add m for minutes and h for hours, seconds is assumed
For example 1h 1m 1 would set the time to 1 hour, 1 minute and 1 second"

read -r time

# shellcheck disable=2086 # word splitting is needed here
sleep $time

while aplay /path/to/sound/file ; do
   :
done

Or

sleep 300 ; while mplayer loud-song.ogg ; do : ; done

Here's a (very) simple script for the timer (replace /path/to/sound/file with the actual full path to the sound file you want to use as the alert):

#!/bin/sh

echo "Hello $USER, please enter a countdown time
Add m for minutes and h for hours, seconds is assumed
For example 1h 1m 1 would set the time to 1 hour, 1 minute and 1 second"

read -r time

# shellcheck disable=2086 # word splitting is needed here
sleep $time

aplay /path/to/sound/file

^ Save that as timer then

chmod +x timer
sudo mv timer /usr/local/bin/

Then make a menu entry for it:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Timer
Generic=Timer
Comment=HoaS' simple timer script
Exec=timer
Terminal=true
Categories=Utility;ConsoleOnly;
Keywords=utility;timer

^ Save that as timer.desktop then

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications
sudo mv timer.desktop /usr/local/share/applications

Now log out and back in again and the "Timer" application should be available under "Utilities".

EDIT: the alsa-utils package supplies the aplay command so you'll need to install that along with any required CODECs for the sound file of choice.

Cinnamon seems a bizarre choice for a low RAM desktop but anyway...

Stop the network-manager service and prevent it from starting at boot:

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo update-rc.d network-manager disable

Copy the various .desktop files for the screensaver & nm-applet to "$HOME":

cp /etc/xdg/autostart/{cinnamon-settings-daemon-screensaver-proxy,nm-applet}.desktop /usr/share/applications/cinnamon-screensaver.desktop ~/.config/autostart

Disable autostart by adding 'Hidden=true' to the end of all .desktop files in "$HOME" (do this manually if you already have autostart files there that you don't want to disable):

for i in ~/.config/autostart/*.desktop ; do echo 'Hidden=true' >> "$i" ; done

Then log out & back in again.

Yes: https://wiki.debian.org/EFIStub

EDIT: and for Artix you will need to copy the kernel & initramfs over to the ESP whenever it is updated so see also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_sy … unt_points (or remount /boot to the ESP).

Oops, sorry. I presume there's a commented line at the top of sources.list?

Let's try again:

dig deb.devuan.org

Run the command a few times to see if the Query time value changes significantly.

Do you still experience the delay if you replace http://deb.devuan.org/merged with a specific mirror?

Do you experience a delay when opening any web pages in the browser for the first time?

Does removing the mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] statement fix the delay?

Why do you need Avahi anyway?

Yes.

PipeWire unifies the audio and visual stack and also acts as a drop-in replacement for both PulseAudio and JACK (or at least it will eventually) so it is a definite improvement. Even Lennart agrees with this :-)

The PipeWire user space libraries are actually simpler than the ALSA equivalent.

We should probably stop diverting the OP's thread now so see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … /wikis/FAQ for more details.