Dont ask, describe the issue

What problems are you having specifically?

I’m getting old and soon I’m gonna get scammed by AI.

I'm in my mid 40s and this terrifies me, honestly. I've seen a lot of images people point out are AI and don't notice it until later. Some are super obvious, but others I might never notice (and doubly so if I don't stop to actually examine all the details of every image I see and who has time for that?)

Smiled when I saw someone de-slopped the meme, smiled even harder when I saw the same OP

You love to see it

Bless you for doing it non-AI

When everyone struck so hard under neverslop banners, I was kind of afraid folks will alienate an awesome poster.

Glad to see you taking it the right way! :)

Stupid sexy Skeletor...

MYAAH

😭👍

And I say, hey hey, hey hey

Did you mean oh Magog? Because you shouldn't ignore the one true doug

Basically 100% of my problems since switching to linux have been audio related.

Oh wait I mean no, gaslighting isn't real you made it up because you're crazy

Yesterday I gave claude remote access to my Chinese android car stereo. It was opening apps, taking screenshots, backing things up and decompiling them to check for malware. Now I'm going to remove everything unneeded like media apps and Google Play services to make the system faster.

I've had a few "holy shit" moments with AI over the past month or so that I haven't had since late 2022/early 2023. Crazy times, we are in for a ride...

First thing to check is Alsamixer. Get on that mfugging terminal and type in Alsamixer and then hit the F6 key to check if Mint was just being weird and muted anything. I had that happen to me a few times where it muted headphones or speakers on its own.

If that alone doesn't work, it can help to check if wireplumber and be sure this is enabled.

systemctl status --user wireplumber.service

If it isn't enabled, then run

systemctl --user start wireplumber.service

And if none of that worked, I did find Pavucontrol worked pretty amazingly for me. I just downloaded it and it just worked to just

sudo apt install pavucontrol

and then ran

pavucontrol &

Lemme know if any of this worked. Since you JUST got it, I don't think it's anything too crazy.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH! Take a deep breath! It's okay! I'm a trained professional!

Aight first, LISTEN TO MY VOICE, first we're gonna wanna open the terminal and type in Alsamixer. Now the problem is that x870 has multiple audio devices! Some might be named something like 'USB Audio" or even "Realtek ALC[numbers]"

Try to find a setting called "Auto-Mute Mode" and disable it!

If this doesn't work, the good news is like Mint, Pop!_OS also uses Wireplumber! Open up Pavucontrol, which I think Pop!_OS just comes with or at least my friend told me it did, go to the Configuration tab, find the USB Audio tab, and change the profile to "Pro Audio" and then wait a bit and then switch it back to "Analog Stereo Duplex"! This works because it just works.

Lastly it could be a bios thing. Get into the BIOS, go to settings, then advances, and then find the Integrated Peripherals and ensure that the HD Audio Controller is enabled.

And if none of that works, it could be that Wireplumber is borked up and I have what is called a pro-gamer move. On Mint, this ALWAYS works!

systemctl --user stop wireplumber.service

rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber

systemctl --user start wireplumber.service

Take it easy, gamer.

So, I'm actually able to reproduce that and then had to fix it myself. 😅

The "Pro Audio" profile seems to be a PipeWire thing: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile

I'm guessing, the recording device doesn't like that profile and just crashes right away. And when it has crashed, it won't show up in the list of available devices.

Now, how is that profile remembered even when the device disconnects? Apparently, a component called "WirePlumber" is responsible for that.
And it stores this information in: ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile

If you don't mind losing your profile selection for other devices, you can just do:

mv ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile ~/.local/state/wireplumber/default-profile.old

and then do a reboot.
After the reboot, your recording device should be back.

If you do mind losing the other profiles, then make a backup of that file and try to remove lines related to your recording device, and again do a reboot to test it.
For me, it was a device which had both input and output, and I had to remove both lines before it recognized it as unconfigured.

Just in case you're not referencing a shitpost: shitty power optimizations, can be disabled.