Sometimes listening isn't enough. Had to go into a video conference yesterday. Listening to music on my #Librem5 worked fine, but when I tried to get audio in the conference I remembered that my desktop is broken, because of this #Debian #Bookworm #Pipewire issue I wrote about.

I had to ask the other participants to wait, because I'd need to restart my desktop to get sound. Not funny if connected with people partly working on Apple devices.

#Workaround time: the major problem at the time being in my use case seems to be #Mozilla #Firefox and #Thunderbird leaving sockets to pipewire-#pulseaudio open.

I now run them using PULSE-SERVER=unix:/dev/null <program> and it seems they really do not connect to pipewire-pulse anymore and therefor can't leave its sockets open.

No sound in #Mozilla apps is o.k. - I can always run #ungoogled-#chromium if I need a page deliver sound.