i generally disgree with the suckles devs on a matter of principle, but the wayland issue is one i will have to agree 100% with them, wayland is a mess, when even the suckless devs say it was too minimalist as a bad thing you know you done fuck up, and that is without mentioning the insistence on keeping everyone chained to rastered display and DPI, if wayland was done right everything that isn't a raster would be processed as vectors with rasterization as the last step and thus the concept of DPI would be rendered obsolete.

https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2109/34475.html

to use the hardened malloc without systemd wouldn't it suffice to add something like hardened-malloc.conf to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ , you know like with the other ld configs?

i'd say sysvinit but i am biased from old linux and since sysvinit scripts can be rather simple when you want something that just works without using the lsb stuff.

The cool thing about pipewire is that it supposedly can provide pulse, jack, wrap alsa and oss (since pulse does) but has performance closer to jack since (the claim is) the internals are very well designed.

Regardless for the pro audio needs it seems promising since routing pulse streams directly in a jack rack is something that can be done with it.

welp, i'm an airhead so the moment i learn to do something i gotta script it, that way i don't need to remember how it is done lol

I have a couple lists
Serious books:
  communist manifesto
  mein kampf
  meditations

Fiction:
  overlord vol 14
  kerberos panzer cops
  chainsawman

my ongoing efforts to build an almost DE in the awesomewm framework, also some side shitpost pasta cuz why not?

also yes awesome can do some dynamic setting of the window icon based on the window name

the emojis thing is a covid tracker, for anyone interested this is the repo for that https://github.com/eylles/corona-chan-tracker (yes it is shitpost oriented, it can show a true color ascii of corona-chan but needs zstd, i need to re compress the easter eggs with gzip i guess)

and that is a non issue, since i use a window manager i already start pulse on .xprofile

! pidof pulseaudio >/dev/null &&
setsid -f pulseaudio --start >/dev/null 2>&1 &

i'm waiting on the pipewire documentation so that i can either add pipewire support to the volume module i have on my bar or write a new one targeting pipewire

as despite the fact that is a redhat project it seems to be better than pulse with the promise of reduced latency and jack integration it means no longer there's a need for messing with the awful pulse loopbacks and instead audiostreams can be managed on a jack patchbay

on a fresh start

i really settled with awesome wm.

btw that is a custom coronavirus tracker module, it's just a simple shell script tho.

There will always be, as long as systemd is the "default" other init systems on debian will be an after tought and the experience will be rough around the edges, also if you need more recent packages than what stable offers then devuan will be the superior option, devuan ceres will have fixes and patches for nosystemd operation faster than debian sid will, so as a result if some update to some package with a dependency on a systemd component breaks nosystemd usage you will be stuck with a brocken package on debian while you wait for the patch to be upstreamed from devuan, meanwhile on devuan ceres the breaking update won't be pushed until the patch works, and you can be sure the patch will hit devuan faster than it will debian.

tl;dr for those of us that do unstable debian makes no sense at all.