Yeah, blood has a smell. I don’t know why but some people can’t smell it at all, while some people can smell it from pretty far way. I’ve never tested exactly how sensitive I am to the smell but, for example, if a woman is having her time of the month, I can usually smell it from several feet away.

I had the cliche phase of thinking that I was a vampire because a combination of a few things. I have a problem with my teeth where it caused my “K9s” to protrude outwards, I don’t have a normally detectable pulse and I’ve always been able to smell other peoples blood from abnormally far away but I can never smell my own. I know now that these are things that can happen to anyone but back then, I didn’t know any better.

I think the dream may have been influenced by at least one of those types of games but I don’t remember which one at this point.

I somewhat recently had a pretty weird dream that I was a lust demon who helped other demons fight evil demons.

It starts off with me being back in high school but I noticed that something was off. All the girls there were very interested in me, even going as far as the try and flash me when they walked past. At the end of the day, I had to stay over because there was a book fair (or something, I don’t remember what it was). As I was getting my stuff to leave, I heard a weird voice coming from one of the classrooms. When I walked in, I saw one of my teachers talking to himself in the mirror but for some reason, he looked and sounded like Conan O’Brien.

At first I tried to pretend I didn’t notice but he saw me and explained to me that he was a pride demon who can both shape-shift and mimic voices. He then mentioned that he could sense that I was one of them and taught me how to awaken my powers. As a lust demon, along with having tentacles, my abilities were super strength and speed and an unnatural attractiveness. After that the school was attack by demons who created these magic cubes that would trap and crush the other students who were also still there.

I fought them off and escaped to the roof tops of some nearby buildings. My teacher, who still looked like Conan, came to the same roof top to tell me that the rest of the demons were dealt with. Then another demon hunter came and asked why I was there. I showed her my tentacles and she briefly seemed surprised but then went back to looking angry and looked away from me. She then said something like “You’re a lust demon? Fine.” and flew away and I woke up shortly after.

Yes it’s possible. LibreOffice, for example, can open, edit and even save to those formats.

I’m not really into them. I bought some in high school, back when I still actively watched anime but it just seemed to expensive to continue buying them. I know that I can read them online and I do sometimes but I feel bad for not supporting the creators.

I am, wireplumber is part of pipewire.

While I have already found a working solution, I think the issue wasn’t that it was selecting the wrong device. it was almost as if my normal audio devices didn’t exist for some reason because nothing could see them, even my input devices were missing.

Ok, even though I said I’d wait until tomorrow, I decided to try it again. It seemed to boot more or less normally but I did try someone else’s suggestion and it got audio working again. I did undo the edit I made to the modprobe blacklist and I did keep fluidsynth and pulseaudio uninstalled but I tried using the wireplumber ppa, like someone else suggested and my audio is working again. Granded, I have no idea what actually fixed the issue, so I don’t know who to fully credit but thanks for helping.

Ok, I installed it and restarted my computer (even though I said I’d wait until tomorrow) and everything is working again. Thank you.

Ok, so a lot of them are old messages, none of the messages from this session are labeled as busy. I did just try logging out and back in and that was pretty much instantaneous, so whatever it was that caused my computer to boot slowly just effect the boot itself. But yeah, I tried restarting pipewire and everything related to it and it’s still just showing the dummy output device and audio isn’t working. Thanks for trying though.

I would like to just use pipewire, as it’s what was preinstalled in Linux Mint, so I have already removed pulseaudio. pipewire-pulse was already installed but pipewire-alsa wasn’t, so I’ve installed that and I’ve restarted pipewire and reloaded alsa but it’s still not working.

Ok well, pipewire is what’s pre-installed and as of now neither pipewire nor pulseaudio are working. I have already uninstalled pulseaudio, as I would like to just use what’s preinstalled if I can get it working again.

I have already uninstalled pulseaudio since I only installed it because pipewire stopped working and now neither of them are working. I have also already seen that pipewire-pulse was installed and it was actually running. But before I install that ppa, the last time I installed a ppa, I had to completely reinstall Linux Mint so I just want to make sure that that is actually an official version of wireplumber.

Ok and that command doesn’t list anything.

For some reason the the “stop” command didn’t work as it thought pulseaudio wasn’t running but I was able terminate it through htop. Also, that didn’t work, it did restart pipewire but my normal audio devices are still missing and I still don’t have working audio. I did, just in case, also check the journalctl and fuser commands you gave me previously, and fuser still just lists pipewire and journalctl stil gives the same error messages as before.

I just saw you edit and I did just remove pulseaudio.

I’m not sure how long everything takes normally but systemd-udev-settle.service took over two minutes. When running it with --user the longest was xdg-desktop-portal.service, which took 6 seconds. The third command gives:

UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● casper-md5check.service loaded failed failed casper-md5check Verify Live ISO checksums ● systemd-udev-settle.service loaded failed failed Wait for udev To Complete Device Initialization ● vboxdrv.service loaded failed failed VirtualBox Linux kernel module Also, no I did check and fluidsynth was the only thing removed. I think it did for some reason add some of Wine’s dependencies to autoremove but I’ll deal with those later.

Nope, that didn’t work. In fact, it made the issue worse because now I can’t get audio to work at all because my normal audio devices are missing again. I also tried running the commands again and the journalctl command is still giving me the same error messages and fuser states that the only thing running is pipewire.

Also, for some reason, my computer took a longer time to boot than normal and it made me input my password at startup, which I have Linux Mint configured to just automatically log me in without it. So if you have any further suggestions that require a restart, I don’t feel comfortable restarting my computer again and I will try them tomorrow.

I thought that it was a kernel update too but the last time it was updated was two weeks ago and nothing else relevant to audio was updated either.

I’ve restarted my computer and the fuser command does show mutiple instances of fluidsynth. I also ran the journalctl command and I’m getting a bunch of the same error messages over and over again. They are:

mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.jackaudio.service was not provided by any .service files

spa.alsa: 'front:0': playback open failed: Device or resource busy

mod.adapter: 0x5794b3a2b2a0: can't get format: Device or resource busy