I kind of wonder why there's no decent user interface for pulseaudio - or if it exists, why it's unknown. Pulseaudio is pretty powerful, but the usability is bad. A simple graph application that lets you connect the dots would go a long way. I remember something like that on Windows about 15 years ago, you could throw in various inputs, outputs and filters and just connect them by dragging lines. Not sure if it still exists or is usable.

Here's what I want to do:

1. Play a game
2. Talk on the microphone
3. Listen to other people on Jitsi

I've recently started going through my attic again and saw my old #Commodore hardware. I grew up on a #C64 and its 1541 disk drive that was able to transfer about 300 bytes per second into the small 64 kByte RAM that the C64 has. I even got ahold of some more hardware like a C128 and a Plus4 back then, but didn't really do much with them. And I bought a 1581. One of the rare 3½" disk drive that Commodore produced back then, although I was late to the party. I probably bought it around 1994, I believe the german magazine 64'er had a story one day that someone had found a stock of old 1581 disk drives and I absolutely needed one back then. I had no real use for it, but I scraped together my pocket money and got one. I still remember wondering why there was so little data on the 1581 demo disk back then, but never investigated it further. It only had about 10 directory entries. Lacking contact to other 1581 owners I had no way to figure out that my disk was faulty.

#Hubzilla is a jack-of-all-trades. It's a cloud storage, allows pictures, blogging, allows staying in contact with others. The privacy controls are top-notch. It even has pretty much automated channel migration between hubs if you want to move to another server.

Mastodon probably didn't even notice Hubzilla as it steamrolled past Hubzilla's usage numbers and became the de-facto standard. At least it's also using a public protocol, so Hubzilla can exchange messages. I registered on a private Mastodon server a while back to join that community.

New Laptop. Decided to try #KDE/Plasma 5 on it. Battery fully charged.

I found myself having to merge two json arrays of objects based on an ID in a shell script. #jq as a tool was pretty much a given and a quick search resulted in several solutions. None of them worked for me, as apparently IDs usually are not numbers anymore and everyone expects them to be strings. My IDs were numbers and jq blamed me for it: