The reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis has never been definitively proven or quantified, but largely due to the testimony of criminalist Herbert MacDonell, it was steadily admitted in court after court around the country in the 1970s and ’80s. MacDonell spent his career teaching weeklong “institutes” in bloodstain-pattern analysis at police departments around the country, training hundreds of officers who, in turn, trained hundreds more.
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In 2009, a watershed report commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the discipline, finding that “the uncertainties associated with bloodstain-pattern analysis are enormous,” and that experts’ opinions were generally “more subjective than scientific.” More than a decade later, few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent.
Nothing wrong with Fedora Gnome. I’ve been using it for several months (well ok technically Nobara but I decided to try vanilla Fedora recently and it’s about the same). Prior to that I had been using Mint / Cinnamon for a decade and it’s a good choice too.
But truth be told the Gnome simplicity / minimalism has been growing on me. I wished it were more customizable but whatever.
Fedora is a very very mainstream distro, too, so help is easy to find if anything goes haywire.
PS: nobara is great for gaming but the big gotcha for me was that updating from the shell prompt requires a somewhat involved set of commands. If you use a simple dnf update you’ll break something like I did. Which is why I decided to give Fedora another go. If you choose Nobara, just use the (slow) GUI updater.
The other commenter who mentioned installing and using Gnome tweaks, etc. nailed it. Do that. :)
Hm. Nothing really jumping out then. I am racking my brain trying to think of anything else to look at.
Dumb question but… Shouldn’t headphones be plugged into the headphone jack, not line out?
Headphones typically have a lower impedance than, say, an amplifier.
I’m just wondering if the audio hardware checks load impedance for audio out to prevent issues and the headphones are reading too low (tens to hundreds of ohms instead of, say, 10k-100k ohm or whatever) for a line out.
I don’t know how that explains reinstalling alsa-utils twice or thrice to fix it until the next reboot. So I guess my theory isn’t all that great.
Does it make a difference if you unplug the headphones before rebooting?
Nope, I’ve checked and I don’t have any PulseAudio, JACK, or other audio packages
Ok good. We should be able to rule that out.
Could be kernel related, I don’t know.
What version? The command uname -r will give it to you. More info here
Also… If you run dmesg do you see any audio related devices or errors? I should’ve thought to ask about that last time.
Want to know what’s even more fun? I need to re-install alsa-utils thrice now
Whee!™ Are we having fun yet lol
That is seriously bizarre.
Did I ask what audio hardware chipset you’re using?
It should show up in dmesg output. Or alternatively look up your motherboard specs and get it that way. Assuming you’re using the built in motherboard audio and not a separate card.