>try to get audio to fucking work on a thinkpad
>"oh cool there are buttons"
>they're not bound to anything
>well they are but the binding is not doing anything
>"well that's ok, in the config it says i can just use pactl"
>tool does not exist
>attempt to troubleshoot
>have to find annoying variable dir to echo a fucking value at it. same thing for my goddamn brightness
>took the most effort out of any of the solutions, so I'm almost certain it should work
>doesn't work
stuck on 50% vol, but with what i can hear and subtitles i can understand things just fine. but still. aiy.
Dymphna
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