@arun@fantastic.earth

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@jschauma@mstdn.social I think there is merit to what you're saying (over reliance on the tool), but also consider that it is a UX failure that it is easier to get an LLM to do the thing than to remember a set of esoteric incantations (assuming you knew them to start with)

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 10mo ago

RealtimeKit has a new home next to @pipewire@fosstodon.org, and I just rolled out a new release ... give it a spin!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/rtkit

#linux #linuxaudio #pipewire #pulseaudio

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 3mo ago

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@ayushnix@social.ayushnix.com I think we're talking past each other :) What you're saying is perfectly true (there is value to learning and doing things yourself, sometimes the hard way)... ... but it has nothing to do with what I'm saying (LLMs allow people to do the things they want on computers without having to do computer nerd bs, and there is something for us to learn from that)

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 8mo ago

PSA: If you own an audio settings UI, it is now easier to enable mono audio on Linux
https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/

#linuxaudio #linux #pipewire #accessibility #a11y

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 10mo ago

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@MadMike77@chaos.social indeed, I left a bit about that, but easy to miss. Glad you liked it!

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 10mo ago

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And again, a big shoutout to @sovtechfund@mastodon.social for their support -- without them, this effort would have been nigh impossible to get off the ground!

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 36mo ago

A #GStreamer #WebRTC Quadriennium (4 years!) Update from @ystreet00@floss.social

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 8mo ago

Replying to on chaos.social

@blinry@chaos.social thanks for filing that. The route should automatically be selected on a plug event, but I'll take a closer look when I'm next in front of the computer. @oscherler@tooting.ch

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 7mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/ojm74VGsZBU?si=P80Kt5Orjl-kHHsL

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Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

· 3mo ago

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@ayushnix@social.ayushnix.com

It's not a UX failure for you because you have already spent the time learning this (and all the context leading up to it). And yes, for a sysadmin, perhaps knowing these things is important/valuable.

However, the fact that there is a binary slider between ls and your GUI file manager is a UX failure.

This extends to a lot of tasks that nerds like us find easy to do with a computer, which is simply not accessible to other people. Even what you can realise with an LLM is different based on how much you know about how computers work vs. not.

These are all emergent properties of how technology and the people around it grew, but I think we can be more clear-eyed about how much arcana we quietly accept and proliferate.

@jschauma@mstdn.social

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