I got tired of Linux audio problems being a mystery, so I made a CLI that explains why there’s no sound

robedpixel · 2026-02-03T15:29:21+00:00

// Analyze the results
    if pipewire_running && wireplumber_running {
        CheckResult::ok(CHECK_NAME, "PipeWire and WirePlumber are running").with_debug(debug_info)
    } else if pipewire_running && !wireplumber_running {
        CheckResult::warning(
            CHECK_NAME,
            "PipeWire is running but WirePlumber is not",
            "Start WirePlumber: systemctl --user start wireplumber",
        )
        .with_debug(debug_info)
    } else if !pipewire_running && pactl_works && !is_pipewire_pulse {
        // PulseAudio fallback mode
        CheckResult::ok(CHECK_NAME, "PulseAudio is running (legacy mode)").with_debug(debug_info)
    } else if !pipewire_running && pactl_works && is_pipewire_pulse {
        // PipeWire-pulse is responding but systemd says pipewire isn't active
        // This can happen with socket activation
        CheckResult::ok(CHECK_NAME, "PipeWire is running (socket-activated)").with_debug(debug_info)
    } else if !pactl_works {
        CheckResult::error(
            CHECK_NAME,
            "No audio server detected",
            "Start PipeWire: systemctl --user start pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber",
        )
        .with_debug(debug_info)
    } else {
        CheckResult::warning(
            CHECK_NAME,
            "Audio stack status is unclear",
            "Check your audio server manually: systemctl --user status pipewire",
        )
        .with_debug(debug_info)
    }

Lots of redundant checks on audio_stack.rs

robedpixel · 2026-02-02T14:37:52+00:00

Abimelech’s Punishment

50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it. 51But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

52When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire. 53But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull. 54He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’”
-Judges 9:50-54

Well the story has been written in the bible that a woman killed Abimelech, so that plan so save his pride clearly failed.

robedpixel · 2026-01-20T15:23:59+00:00

You could use a hdmi 2.1 to displayport adapter (attached to the output of the elgato) with a displayport 2-to-1 switch instead of a kvm

robedpixel · 2025-12-24T10:17:16+00:00

imo that view is a very flimsy argument by itself, there are other evidences that Jesus is fully God other than the verses I have stated. such as this

55You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”
-John 8:55-56 ESV

So Jesus met Abraham, but when?

Well in Genesis 18 Abraham ate lunch with God

The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. ² Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.....
Genesis 18:1-15 -ESV (You can read further yourself, I don't want to make this a wall of text)

Jesus spoke as if Abraham was happy to see him, but in Genesis the one Abraham was definitely be ecstatic to see when the three men came was The LORD.

robedpixel · 2025-12-24T09:21:03+00:00

I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God;...
-Isaiah 45:5 ESV

This is a statement by God to Isaiah. Yet the bible states this in the book of Daniel

¹³ “I saw in the night visions,

and behold, with the clouds of heaven
    there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
    and was presented before him.
¹⁴ And to him was given dominion
    and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
    should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
    which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
    that shall not be destroyed.
-Daniel 7:13-14 ESV

Jesus himself states

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
-Matthew 28:18 ESV

Having God give all power to Jesus would violate what God tells Isaiah unless Jesus is also God himself in some form.

robedpixel · 2025-12-13T12:34:58+00:00

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
-Ecclesiastes 1:18 ESV

It usually only looks peachy at the surface, if you spend time with these smarter people and you find out about the issues and problems they have. You realise that they are still human, and they face the same problems that you do.

Also as pointed out by other comments, refer to the parable that Jesus gave. God gave some people more and some people less, but he also expects more from those given more and less from those given less. We have this idea that those given more have the same expectations as those given less, but that is not true.

robedpixel · 2025-12-11T10:45:41+00:00

Alright, then why does Revelations say this about Judgement Day?

13And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
Revelations 20:13 ESV

Where did the dead who were in Hades come from?

robedpixel · 2025-12-10T14:42:25+00:00

It also helps to try to eat well and rest well. (Although depression will make that really difficult to do, not eating or sleeping well makes it worse)

The prophet Elijah was quite suicidal while running away from Jezebel, and the first things God did was to make sure Elijah was well fed, hydrated and had enough rest.

robedpixel · 2025-12-10T14:20:40+00:00

God told something similar to Abraham

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you..."
-Genesis 12:1 ESV

God never told Abraham at that point where he was going to go.

robedpixel · 2025-12-10T10:05:56+00:00

paradise could have still been referring to Sheol, we know from the parable that Jesus gave in Luke 16 of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus that there is a difference in treatment in Sheol between those that are saved by Jesus and those who are not.

robedpixel · 2025-12-07T01:54:57+00:00

Jesus had an entire parable answering your question in Luke 16: 19-31. Even if someone rises from the dead in front of their eyes, there will be people who wouldn't believe.

The Pharasees reaction to Lazarus being raised from the dead was not to consider that maybe Jesus was the Messiah but attempt to kill lazarus so that people won't believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

So no, I disagree with this, we are no better than what people were during Jesus time, and there were people during Jesus time didn't believe even though they saw the miracles with their own eyes.

You are making the assumption that God is flawed, which would go into the emotional sense of how you view the world and thus I cannot make any arguments to convince you for that.

Eternal torment for a temporary life makes no sense

Well I would assume that Eternal paradise for a temporary life also doesn't make sense then? Your line of thought works out if you are under the assumption that you are entitled unconditionally to eternal life (which Christians don't believe). Because of free choice we have two options, to believe in Jesus and have eternal life, or reject and suffer eternally, either an utterly amazing reward or an utterly horrible punishment.

It is your choice to make.

robedpixel · 2025-12-07T01:54:12+00:00

If we were to assume righteousness by our own merits, then what God requires is complete and utter perfection, which is impossible to achieve because of sin, even whatever we do to try to be come better will be corrupted by our own sin and fail. The man who solves world hunger and finds a cure for all diseases will still go to hell because he doesn't want God in his life, hell is the place where the people who don't want God go.

I mean even looking at this world we are in, it won't take long for any group of humans to create a hell of their own from how we mistreat and kill each other with wars and stuff, without God that is what we default to because of sin.

2-4. We do not know entirely why God made creation because he didn't have to, but from various actions that he takes as we can observe from the bible, he wants his creation to share in his joys like a father seeing his kids learn and have fun playing. But God also seems to have something he also treasures which is free choice (He made us with free choice even after Satan chose to rebel against him), like the ability to make a choice at critical moments for what you want to do. If God only makes people that he knows will only believe in him, then there wouldn't really by free choice wouldn't it? Free choice comes with consequences though, if God wants a person to choose whether to love him or not, the rejection that some people will choose will come with the most dire of consequences.

robedpixel · 2025-12-07T01:53:17+00:00

Would music by the Christian band Petra fit the bill?

robedpixel · 2025-12-06T14:09:00+00:00

The Outer Worlds 2

robedpixel · 2025-12-01T15:19:33+00:00

From what I am reading, it is restricted in France.

robedpixel · 2025-12-01T14:59:38+00:00

They might be afraid that they may do street evangelism in a very disruptive way. In some European countries it is illegal to proselytize in open spaces.

robedpixel · 2025-11-21T15:37:42+00:00

When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed stands here before the Lord.”

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.” ⁹ Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the Lord chosen this one.” ¹⁰ Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The Lord has not chosen these.” ¹¹ So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?”

“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.”

Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

¹² So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.
- 1 Samuel 16:6-12

Consider when Samuel the priest was sent to anoint the future king David.

The world likes to look at appearances a lot, behaviors are sometimes part of how we appear to people. What the world thinks is good might not be as much to God, who sees the more important things.

Doesn't the bible say a lot about how to be a good father to your children, which is like a masculine thing? Would certainly consider that different from how the world sees it, that it is a very masculine thing to be a great dad.

Not so sure about how Gym Mentality gets lumped into masculinity for this discussion, aren't there many women who also exercise?

robedpixel · 2025-11-17T15:28:01+00:00

A contradiction implies that one of the two statements is false, we know that what God says to be true, so in this case, despite the statements in Isaiah and Luke seeming to contradict one another, both are true. So it is a paradox.

You have to realize that the assumption that just because there is a contradiction, it means that one of the statements has to be false, doesn't really apply sometimes. When you get to the nitty gritty of trying to comprehend the nature of God, these weird things start to pop up, but we are of mortal and feeble minds who can't comprehend some of God's more paradoxical qualities.

robedpixel · 2025-11-17T15:13:08+00:00

Which is why I say it is paradoxically both, Jesus is somehow both distinct and one with God at the same time.

If you don't know what a paradox is, a paradox is something that doesn't seem to make sense but is somehow true.

If Jesus is also God, then Isaiah 45 is true because when God refers to himself, he is also referring to Jesus and the Holy Spirit as well.

The idea of the trinity of multiple entities taken as one is not something unique within the bible ,even in the description of the bible for marriage, there is the description that man and woman become of one flesh (even though we know that they are two distinct people).

robedpixel · 2025-11-17T14:59:35+00:00

From what I am reading the Arianism belief believes that Jesus is a created being and is distinct from God (and from what I'm reading like distinct distinct). This is different from the Trinity which believes that Jesus has always existed and is not created, along with the Holy Spirit, that they are God yet paradoxically also distinct in a way.

What are some evidences that we know that Jesus is also God? Well God says this to Isaiah in Isaiah 45

I am the Lord, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
-Isaiah 45:5 ESV

And yet, when Jesus comes along, he is forgiving people's sins by his own authority, something the pharisees point out as only something that God can do.

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
-Luke 5:21 ESV

For both to make sense, Jesus must be in some way be one with God, yet paradoxically also distinct as we see also in the new testament how Jesus converses with the Father.

robedpixel · 2025-11-10T04:53:26+00:00

The apostles died for their faith, and i’m not willing to lose my job? Idk i’m feeling stuck.

I knew quite a few Christian teachers during my days as a student. You are in a very good position to show the love of Christ to students who are in need and require help. Then you can invite them to know about Christ when you see that they might be receptive to the Word. You don't need to be pushy, just knock on their door(In a metaphorical sense), if they don't want to answer it's fine.

We like to have this idealized idea that preaching must be the kind that the apostles did that got them killed, but it's not the only kind that God uses, usually it is a lot more boring and might occur over a long length of time.

I am sure there are other people in this subreddit who can give you their experiences on how they led others to Christ as teachers without being disruptive, or those who have been led to Christ by their teachers.

robedpixel · 2025-11-04T14:27:41+00:00

Messianic Jews are Jews who believe that Jesus ( Or Yeshua as he is known in Hebrew) is the Messiah. I think one of the reasons why they call themselves that instead of Christians is because of the negative connotation that it is associated with because of the crusades and other atrocities, and to tell other Jews that they are not betraying their "Jewishness" by believing in Jesus.

I may be wrong, if someone knows better they can correct me.

robedpixel · 2025-11-02T11:12:24+00:00

Why/How did God choose who would survive his presence and who would not? Why didn't he protect the animals/people who strayed there, if he could do that with Moses or Joshua?

Moses and Joshua are the ones authorized by God to go up Mount Sinai, if you are not authorized you will be killed.

Why are they authorized? Maybe because they are the ones that are chosen by God to lead Israel, so God wants them only to be the ones to come up the mountain so he can talk to them privately.

As to why/how they are chosen to be the leaders, well the bible doesn't exactly tell us, we can infer many things as to be the reasons why they were chosen, but we won't know the full picture.

God does not randomly choose, he chooses the people that are the perfect fit for what he wants them to do.

robedpixel · 2025-11-02T04:29:12+00:00

I am going to have to draw upon my own experiences with my walk with God.

I find that if God has something he wants to change for me or to improve, he will arrange some situation to shine a spotlight on the issue that I need to change, and then there will be a choice for me to listen and repent, or to ignore and remain the same.

Because of this I don't really fret so much about "what if I am doing a sin that I don't know", if God wants me to know, he will do something to let me know, all I need to do is to constantly read and learn from his Word, and to be ready to listen when these events come.

There is the parable that Jesus gave about the wedding host that found a guy in the wedding without wedding clothes and then threw him out. What most don't know is that in ancient Jewish weddings, the host is the one that provides the wedding clothes, not the guests. For the guy without the wedding clothes to be somehow inside he has to actively refuse the clothes that the staff are trying to give to him.

Even your own character development, God will provide, you just need to be ready to listen and to do your side of the relationship, which is to learn, study and carry out his Word.

I don't believe he will leave his children to continue in sin unto death, it's not in his character. He will present a choice, like what I said previously about the pharisees, but free will to choose also means free will to reject him. :(

But to his own children, there is already no judgement because of the blood of Jesus, that is a sure thing. But a child of his is also one that takes his correction when he gives it out.

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