Pacify pulseaudio and libcanberra to cope with randomized machine-id

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diff --git a/.local/bin/pacify-pulseaudio b/.local/bin/pacify-pulseaudio
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Amin Bandali <bandali@kelar.org>
+#
+# Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+# are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+# notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is,
+# without any warranty.
+
+# pulseaudio is trash and insists on using machine-id as a prefix for
+# its database filenames under ~/.config/pulse.  So, on systems with
+# randomized machine-ids like Devuan GNU/Linux it shits the bed and
+# can't find its own database files.  So we do its job for it and
+# rename its database files on each boot.  Ditto for libcanberra's
+# event sound cache database.
+
+cur_id_path=/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
+prev_id_path="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/tmp-prevmid"
+cur_id="$(cat $cur_id_path)"
+prev_id="$(cat $prev_id_path)"
+
+for f in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pulse/$prev_id-* \
+             $XDG_CACHE_HOME/event-sound-cache.tdb.$prev_id.*; do
+    fnew="$(echo $f | sed "s/$prev_id/$cur_id/")"
+    mv $f $fnew
+done
+
+cp -p $cur_id_path $prev_id_path