thanks for the downvotes. i would still like an answer to my questions

yes. and catholic conservatives and neoliberals and social democrats whatnot

WDYM? because being a bigot is not the sams as being a fascist?

good for them, i guess

I’m white trash and I’m in trouble

sorry, i of course meant PipeWire, wayland has nothing to do with audio.

i stopped having such problems ever since i switched to wayland. i guess you could find the right configs and persist it with ALSA and PulseAudio config files

happens to the best. if fail2ban were any more resiliently engineered it would have failed to start due to the error in the config file