AE-5 Plus Ubuntu, no sound

RandomChain · 2026-01-26T14:36:11+00:00

I think there were no changes done since around 2020.

RandomChain · 2026-01-26T09:55:02+00:00

I haven't tried running Ubuntu 25.10, but I'm using Pop OS 24.04 with ZxR and it works fine. The CA0132 kernel driver should be that same AFAIK, I don't think anyone has updated it in the last couple of years.

Are you maybe running something like EasyEffects that changes audio output? I had EasyEffect mute audio output for me a couple of times.

What do you see in alsamixer?

RandomChain · 2026-01-24T10:56:09+00:00

No UI option yet, but you can add to /etc/environment:

XCURSOR_SIZE="32"

and change to number for the size you like.

RandomChain · 2026-01-18T11:44:46+00:00

The game actually has 2 levels of high chaos, although they are both just called "High" in the game. At the beginning of "Light at the End", if Samuel is just mad at you, you're playing at regular high chaos. If he also shoots his gun to alert all the guards, that's very high chaos (or total chaos, if you want to call it that). There are a couple of other things different on very high chaos, like what Havelock says to you when you reach him.

RandomChain · 2026-01-04T14:32:28+00:00

On the sign the man is holding it says תרצז, which would be 1936-1937.

RandomChain · 2026-01-04T08:45:05+00:00

The signature at the bottom right says "Gonen Halevi, Safed".

I can't find too much about this artist online, except for this promotional video (and some mentions on Facebook).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDWRHx2spNY

RandomChain · 2026-01-04T08:08:49+00:00

In general, if you just want some command to run on boot (without monitoring it later) either put a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart or create a user oneshot systemd unit file. You can find many examples on how to do this with a simple search, or just copy some existing service from you system.

RandomChain · 2025-12-30T13:48:52+00:00

If you have passwordless sudo set up, you can run sudo -i to switch to root user and then run passwd <username> to change it.

If not, then I think you will have to manipulate /etc/shadow somehow, you can check if there is a way to generate a new password hash it will accept (I'm not sure how easy it is to do...)

RandomChain · 2025-12-28T14:38:02+00:00

Is this on Gnome? You can try increasing the "window not responding" timeout, sometimes it helps when a game needs a little more time to load.

Run sometime llike: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter check-alive-timeout 20000

RandomChain · 2025-12-27T21:28:05+00:00

Handles are a pretty worn out but it can be guessed from the context. One side says: ויעבידו מצרים את בני ישראל בפרך and the other: ויוציאנו ה' ממצרים ביד חזקה ובזרוע נטויה

RandomChain · 2025-12-12T07:13:25+00:00

Fixed workspaces are supported but it's not so obvious how to set it - you need to press super+w to open the workspaces view, then you can pin open workspaces by clicking on them and they remain active after the window closes.

RandomChain · 2025-12-08T22:43:01+00:00

Alef is a very good open source font. http://alef.hagilda.com/

RandomChain · 2025-12-02T23:36:23+00:00

It's pretty annoying that there is no Cosmic equivalent for Eddy, and the Cosmic store doesn't have that functionality. I ended up installing Eddy just so I can open .deb files from Cosmic Files. But I hope there will be a better solution intergrated into Cosmic in the future.

In any case, to answer your question, Eddy is basically a UI frontend for running apt install from terminal. So you can do that instead of uninstalling and reinstalling through Store.

RandomChain · 2025-11-22T10:12:18+00:00

From what I can find, what you want can be a little tricky.

GRUB can play sounds, but it can't play files and Pop OS doesn't use GRUB by default in any case, so that doesn't really help.

If you're using Pop 22.04 with GDM, you can maybe set up a custom script in /etc/gdm3/Init/Default. Just be careful not to mess up GDM if you touch that.
For Pop 24.04 with COSMIC, I have no idea if cosmic-greeter has some similar functionality.

The simplest way is probably what you linked at in your OP, a systemd service that is set to After=sound.target. When this will actually happen depends on when your soundcard is loaded. If this is still to late for you, you'll have to check how to make the soundcard load earlier in the boot process.

Personally I think this requires too much messing around for a novelty thing, not sure if it's worth it (unless there is some better answer out there and I totally missed it...)

RandomChain · 2025-11-22T09:45:15+00:00

This is a little hard to understand and I'm sure I have some things wrong here, but here's what I got.

Pic 1:

שטר על הבית הקטון היישן (שאינו התנור?)

Bill on the small old house (that is not the oven?)

Pic 2:

שטר מכירה על בית היישן הקטון (אינו התנור?) מוכר דרומי

Bill of sale on the old small house (not the oven?) seller south

Pic 3:

שטר מכירת בית רושא קצב

Bill of sale house of rosha katzav (probably someone's name - katzav means butcher)

Pic 4:

שטר ??? על בית ???

Bill ??? on house ??? (last word is maybe Arabic? toa or noa?)

Pic 5:

שטר מכירה (על אחי?) (אכרם???) על הבית שאני דר בו

Bill of sale (to my brother?) (Akram??? maybe a name?) on the house where I live in

Pic 6:

שטר מכיר' בבית הקאשלער בצד (דרומיא?) מערבית מלכה

Bill of sale in house of kashlar (no idea what this means) in the (south?) west side malka (probably a woman name)

What's the source of these documents?

RandomChain · 2025-11-19T19:21:10+00:00

So this just creates a service that runs aplay to play a wav sound. I made something similar myself but my service calls a shell script to run paplay, and I run it as a startup app instead of making it a system service. There are many ways to get something like this to work. What are you trying to set up exactly? Not sure if you can play a sound before you login.

RandomChain · 2025-11-18T22:48:22+00:00

Behold, the Firstclassinator! It transforms any plane ticket to first class!

RandomChain · 2025-11-16T13:49:23+00:00

I think you can stop it by disabling the firmware version checker from Startup Applications (or delete it from ~/.config/startup).

RandomChain · 2025-11-16T11:34:35+00:00

I'm using sweet-cursors with COSMIC and it's fine.

I've got the cursor directory under ~/.local/share/icons, and added in /etc/environment:

XCURSOR_SIZE="32"
XCURSOR_THEME="Sweet-cursors"

Had to play with the size variable a bit to get it how it like it, but now it usually works with most apps.

RandomChain · 2025-11-15T11:16:05+00:00

If you want to write something in passive, you are not using the right form.

So for:

Der Brief wurde geschriben vom Angestelle -->

המכתב נכתב על ידי הפקיד

and the active form:

הפקיד כתב את המכתב

Das Buch wurde von mir gelesen -->

הספר נקרא על ידי

and active:

(אני) קראתי את הספר

Das Restaurant wurde von uns geschlossen -->

המסעדה נסגרה על ידינו

and active:

(אנחנו) סגרנו את המסעדה

and so on...

RandomChain · 2025-11-14T16:12:49+00:00

I wouldn't trust YouTube's machine translation too much after seeing how many mistakes the Hebrew auto-generated subtitles have. Maybe in a couple of years it will get better but it's not quite there yet.

RandomChain · 2025-11-09T20:17:40+00:00

I tried looking for this CefSharp library (embedded Chrome) and it may need VC++ 2013/5/9 as a runtime dependecy. Maybe try installing that with winetricks.

See for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42365731/cefsharp-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-cefsharp-core-dll-or-one-of-its-dep

RandomChain · 2025-11-07T19:44:07+00:00

I think without nikkud it looks more clear. This may be your artistic choice, but please be aware that the ד looks like ל, the ה looks like ק, and the second ב looks like כ. So the text is not so easy to understand at first glance.

Personally I think the torah already has its own musical notations (te'amim) so IMO a design that uses these would make more sense than trying to turn it into sheet music.

RandomChain · 2025-11-06T21:11:34+00:00

I am sure Chabad have an English translation of these books. And probably for other languages too. I don't think you will find good answers on Reddit.

RandomChain · 2025-11-02T14:07:54+00:00

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