u/GSquad934

Hello. Geeting crispy audio quality on any computer has always been my thing. This for both the output (speakers or headphones) or input through my microphone. The microphone one has always been a big one for me: I do a lot of meeting/calls and people being able to hear you in good quality is a godsend.

Since I migrated to Pipewire (like so many years ago), I have been using EasyEffects for this purpose. I used it on both my desktop PC (Arch) and laptops (Debian and Arch). I am happy with it overall: incredible program!

On my laptops, I sometimes experience some problems when switching audio sources, especially when it comes to Bluetooth sources (ugh, I know...). Then I have to restart EasyEffects or even sometimes the whole audio stack. Not great when I am doing a meeting. This is the only weak spot of EasyEffects for me.

I never really tried anything else. I looked at JACK in the past before Pipewire was even a thing but that looked daunting. I looked that something called Carla is supposed to be more reliable when it comes to Bluetooth but it looks quite overkill for my requirements.

Anyways, just curious: what do you guys use for audio processing on Linux?

Hello. Given the direction the overall digital world we live is taking, it's been a minute since we all started to store the data we're interested in. I have been doing that for a while but the recent urgency I felt to store all my medias, information and sources made me think.

I use many projects and contribute to them however I can. I like to support the people actively working on those projects (no corporations here, just people). With that in mind, there is one in particular I have some issue with: yt-dlp.

Many people work on yt-dlp and there is not a donation page/project in place to support the overall project. I just found one post in their subreddit where someone said you can support maintainers individally: I do not want to do that.

My question: do you guys know of a way to donate to yt-dlp? Do you donate some money to the open-source projects you use on a daily basis? If yes, which ones?

EDIT: hope this does not go against rule 6.