On 3/24/14 7:01 AM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > I was talking about raising initial hardware volume and lowering > the initial software volume (current defaults are the opposite). I > agree that it doesn't make sense to have everything cranked.
Not that my opinion is worth anything, but I strongly believe a lower hardware volume seems like a much more sane default. If you want to be /that guy/ who turns on their fire alarm^W^W laptop in the meeting, then by all means do so, but I don't think it makes sense to subject everyone else to it by default. > This would allow more use-cases to be handled in software only, but > may force those of us with noisy devices and alike (see tedu@ mail > for more examples) to change the defaults by hand. Sure, that's nice, but at what cost? Perhaps an FAQ entry is in order to tell people how to raise it, but like tedu I'd rather be annoyed than angry, and being quiet by default doesn't even really annoy me.
