I'm pretty sure I'm missing something stupid, but I'm not sure where to look. When I open, say, a youtube page, the media will start playing for a few seconds and then pause. I have autoplay enabled in Settings/Media. in about:config media.autoplay.enabled is true, media.enabled.user-gestures-needed is false, and block-autoplay-until-in-foreground is false

Where else should I be looking?

Tekk if you have NoScript you need to enable js for all domains which show blocked.

hai

Hej

Apparently one of the autoplay things I did eventually fixed it, plus let me scroll on youtube videos again

Browsers are weird.

i need to find a linux userspace that isn't terrible

nsITobin: Depending on your definition I think you can use alpine with musl an busybox :)

it needs to be standard glibc and sysvinit

really I'd just like something even simpler than sysvinit but i dunno yet

i want to basically be able to assume control over startup of the userspace as if it was fuckin dos and i had an autoexec file

Tekk: I need a sysroot in a tarball with x11 and devtools beyond that i can do everything else

you see what I am getting at?

i can do even that but damn its a slog and i'd need to learn to build x11 as well

That wouldn't be the worst thing to roll on your own, probably.

well i don't understadn why no one provides such a base/starter distro

What you're describing is pretty similar to the alpine sysroot I think?

yeah but what init system?

I think apk uses sysv or something simpler

I don't think it's a systemd distro at any rate

openrc

That's not too ba

bad

yeah the point is i don't actually want to learn another init system but be capable of BEING the init system.. and going from there

after I do it THEN i will have a BETTER idea of what needs to be done to deal with it simply and efficiently for me

I mean if you're in a chroot there's not gonna be an init syste running

yeah but i want to boot to a shell and type them in my self and then write a script that does it

BASH should be the init system...

ha

but yeah Tekk taking control of startup.. that's the ticket

Oh! That's even easier

So all you need to do is either build your kernel with no modules

Or just replace /bin/init (or whatever your initrd calls for 'real' init with /bin/bash )

:)

Tekk: while my kernel has module support i typically build in everything..

need it for vmware

Well there you go then. You don't need an initrd

Just edit your bootloader config to pass init=/bin/bash and remove the initrd

Unless you have an encrypted disk or similra

it is getting to the point any mainstream systemd distro is too compramised to run in that way to any useful degree and i don't use initramfs .. right now i can install any redhat based os with a basic chroot if i do it from a redhat based os it is simple but its all systemd based