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Linux Issues

Video Playback Not Working, YouTube Buffering Forever

This was an issue I had on every single Linux installation of mine except my Gentoo installation. The solution (Arch Linux) was to replace the pulseaudio package with pipewire-pulse. Somehow, I think this magically fixed the issue. I derived this possible solution because MPD stopped playing music, and I looked in my config only to see that it was using PulseAudio instead of Pipewire! So naturally I thought that this might have something to do with my video playback issue! :D

Minecraft Not Detecting Mouse Movement Under Wayland

I had this issue where I would launch Minecraft, try to move around, and the rotation of my camera would only update when I moved the cursor out of the window and then back into the window. The fix was to add -Dorg.lwjgl3.renderer=wayland to my JVM arguments for Minecraft. If you are curious about what version of Minecraft I was using, it was Minecraft Beta b1.7.3 with the BTA mod.

Hardware Issues

PC38X Headset Not Working

I remember getting this headset and loving how it felt on my head, but realizing that it doesn’t work when I plug it into my computer. The problem was that it would play tinny audio in just my left speaker. The solution was oddly to keep fiddling with it and eventually clean the tips with an alcohol wipe. This didn’t fix the issue entirely, I’ve found that I also need to sometimes plug the cable into my computer first and then plug the cable into my headset. Idk, it works. Can’t complain. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rainy75 MOD + <KEY> Not Working

I don’t know what causes it, but the solution seems to just be holding down FN + M for around 3-5 seconds.

Software Issues

Disabling Omnibox (URL Bar) Suggestions

It turns out that stock Chromium and many Chromium-based browsers do not let you turn off omnibox suggestions fully. In order to turn them off, I had to add a search engine and not enable the search engine search suggestions, and then I had to head over to chrome://flags and search for “omnibox” in the search bar. What I wanted was Omnibox Autocomplete Filtering, or formally known as #omnibox-autocomplete-filtering. I then set that flag to Search suggestions only and restarted the browser. If you want a browser that allows this in the settings and actually allows you to FULLY turn off ANY suggestion pop-ups under the omnibar completely, use Brave. I personally wrote this because I want to move away from Brave, and I am trying a browser called Helium.