Ubuntu Audio over Display Port

Thu 10 October 2019

I just upgraded my desktop to the new AMD Ryzen 3900X and on that occasion also replaced my decade (!) old GPU with a recent Nvidia RTX 2060. Initially I couldn't get it to output audio to the speakers in my monitor (connected using DisplayPort).

Finally, using pavucontrol to switch of the other HD-Audio Generic device did the trick.

After some more research I also discovered volumeicon, a small app that shows a volume control in the system tray (i3 in my case). It can be configured to open an external mixer on click (pavucontrol) and can also ...

Backups Simplified

Sat 27 September 2014

I spent quite a bit of time today looking at different options for making sure my laptop was all backed up. Starting with rdiff-backup - which seems great if you are doing local backups and have LVM setup -, remembering I had been using rsnapshot previously and then wondering how to configure it for targets that are only available sometimes: push backups.

That was when it hit me: I already have all my data in Dropbox. Including most of my dotfiles, I just symlink them out of my Dropbox folder into the appropiate location, making it easy to keep ...