If you can accept 11” the old intel macbook airs are what you’re asking for.
They’re in the free - $50 price range now.
Okay I got another stupid question. You have everything going to the rear of the pc, but often times motherboards will have a riser to send audio to the front or top of the case so you can plug your headset in there. Do you have this facility and if so does running to it make any difference?
I may end up having to bow out but if I don’t get to keep trying to help: at some point you’ll need to fire up a daw or obs or jack or something to figure out if you can actually see the signal you’re dealing with anywhere.
The troubleshooting process I’m working through is more akin to what you’d do if you were at a big old mixing console trying to figure out why there’s no sound as opposed to the seemingly more obvious process of tracing device drivers and whatnot.
It’s been very helpful to me when troubleshooting sound issues “in the box”, so if you get stumped fiddlefarting around with lspci and whatnot, give it a shot from that side.
This is gonna sound stupid, but plug and unplug your jack a few times with sound playing.
What does Kmix show?
E: actually before you check that, do the speakers play sound from the mac when plugged in to it directly?
I didn’t read all that too closely.
Do you have sound coming from the speakers plugged into the pc when you play a sound on the pc?
Some distributions have that. Some have it built into the tools like arch. For some you just boot your installation media and run only the “install bootloader” step.
About the only universal way is to boot usb, pivot-root or chroot to switch to the installed system you wanna run and do grub-install, although you need to understand a few things about your system to not make errors.
Once you pick something to stick with, go ahead and look up its process. Think of it like practicing changing a tire in the grocery store parking lot before you actually need to do it on the side of the road.
No that doesn’t keep windows from changing anything.
Just learn how to repair your bootloader how your distribution wants it done and you’ll be fine.
You have some good answers and some bad answers here.
It’s not the fault of the people answering, what you’re asking has been piecemeal and scattershot in implementation over the last decade so everyone has some bizarre response they came up with to be happy.
Allow me to share mine: use a kvm switch.
The switch lets you plug two computers into one keyboard, video, and mouse. But you’re gonna just use the video part. Plug it into both your motherboards and gpus video ports and push the button to switch back and forth between the gpu for gaming and the motherboard for everything else.
Why only gaming? Because everything else you reference can make use of a gpu that’s not being used for video. I guess some game engines support rendering frames and then sending them to another output device but that’s not something to rely on.
So when you’re using blender you see the model on your monitor plugged into the motherboard but the heavy lifting is done by the gpu. When you transcode a video the same thing happens.
I came to this solution after trying to do what you’re asking for in x11 and having a bunch of headaches about it everytime an update would come down.
Pushing a little button on the desktop was easier than messing around with software to make a rube Goldberg contraption to do the same thing. Mine had two leds on either side to indicate which “computer” I was using at the time. I ended up wrapping electrical tape around the rim to cover them both up and cut out the word “turbo” from the tape over the green led that indicated I was looking at the gpu.
I don’t think the payment needs to be gendered or even tracked closely but if you’re worried about a lack of means testing you could go full clintonite demon mode, scale it against household size and distribute it as a tax credit.
E: you could also do the Industrial Revolution for housework and provide community laundry service, grocery delivery, hot meal distribution and handyman work instead of cash payments for dealing with all that crap yourself.
I promise you it’s not. Even in what I’m assuming is an idealized one income nuclear family that you’re alluding to, directly compensating the homemaker for the work required to reproduce that structure just gives the household more resources to distribute.
It also legitimizes the work of reproducing the socially necessary family structure without excluding homemakers from conversations of policy regarding workers rights.
Everyone wins.
I don’t think it’s very smart to exclude race from discussion of domestic labor in the western world especially America.
Eh, possibly? The biggest benefit of direct payments comes from people not working as much and instead doing the shit they need to do, weather that’s get the kids handled, do their own laundry and dishes or just go out and take a walk and those are the same benefits as a ubi.
The problem with conflating compensation for domestic labor with ubi is that compensating domestic labor accomplishes more structural goals which is a huge deal because the problems of domestic labor are structural.
One example is that on a fundamental level compensating people for domestic labor values that labor. It can’t just be shit you’re expected to do if someone cares enough about it to pay you for it. That aspect also addresses lots of racial and gendered problems with domestic labor.
Another benefit is that now the state (by dint of its distributing payments) has a stake in social reproduction and families that’s direct and not mediated through the lens of moral or religious values.
The problem with ubi is that it relies on markets to figure out how to fix shit by just giving the currency of markets to people. That works pretty well, because those markets are what’s ultimately causing people to suffer, so giving them resources to not be beaten by the market helps a lot, but it’s acting without direction or state power, effectively fighting with at best one hand tied behind your back. I think it’s more accurate to say it’s like private military contracts, money spent with the hope something happens but no real goal or idea how to actually accomplish what you want.
As I said though: it would be good if people had more money.
Okay, directly compensate people for their domestic labor.
If that’s a bridge too far or if concerns over efficiency come up, provide community services to make that labor easier and cheaper for everyone.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you mean the housing, food and allowance provided by the breadwinner to the homemaker.
Theres a couple of problems with that. Number one, how tf do you both cut half the jobs and raise the wage by enough to double its present value? You’d have to be able to actually get rid of half the labor base and not have employers gobble up the money saved as profits.
Number two, how do you avoid the very real class distinctions involved in that arrangement in the past? To put a finer point on it, full time housewife was a descriptor reserved for the upper middle classes and above only.
Not least, but definitely third: how do you avoid, in a racist and misogynistic society, allowing labor and its benefits to become gendered and racialized?
What you said might seem like a fair trade for a specific breadwinner and homemaker pair (at a specific time, things change!), but it’s not a fix for a social problem.
An alternative to simply paying people to maintain their own households is providing for collective housekeeping services that will do some of the work of housekeeping for people. There are examples of neighborhood laundries, grocery delivery, food preparation and distribution, lawn and handyman services and other stuff in the past.
An alternative is to compensate people for domestic labor performed in their own homes.
Yeah wouldn’t it be nice…
But the most considerate thing for the user is to help them use what they want to use. There’s also a real benefit to keeping ahold of that windows because people often have their own ways of doing things and it may be more expedient to boot back into 10 than to figure out how to complete some task in Linux.
I suggested 0patch not to bypass some arbitrary check, for which there are many options, but to provide access to security patches and updates after Microsoft stops publishing them for 10.