I’m just a few days away from homelessness.

The past few years have been absolutely brutal, and only got significantly worse in recent months. I’m not even talking about the current political climate and all that.

Back in April, I had to have my dog, best friend, and foundation to my mental wellbeing put down as I helplessly watched his epilepsy get worse. His seizures got exponentially worse over the years and getting him a proper treatment to alleviate his symptoms, or even a simple diagnosis, has been an absolute nightmare. His seizures got so bad and so frequent that he ended up getting hurt. I could see the bone stick out of his elbow from the constant friction on the ground. I couldn’t even keep him safe, and in the end I had to make the call to just have him put down because I’d given up after countless attempts to try and get him the care he needed.

The most support I’ve gotten through that entire process were shallow “sorry to hear, I’m doing great on my end”s.

He was the best dog I’d ever met, so full of love and joy despite his circumstances, he meant everything to me, he was all I had.

And now he’s gone. He deserved so much better, he was barely 7.

I’ve been unable to get a job since. My last “job” was driving for Uber because it was the only way I could manage to make any amount of money to keep a roof over our heads while still being able to stay home to try to take care of him when his seizures would flare up. I haven’t driven since his last batch of seizures, not that it’d matter because I wasn’t making enough to stay afloat anyway. Losing most of the money i made over taxes and vehicle maintenance.

I’ve applied, applied, applied, sought help, applied some more, and I either never hear back or get automatically rejected nearly instantly.

This week, I thought things were finally starting to look up when I got an interview for a retail job and it seemed to have gone well, the way the manager was talking made it seem like they were going to hire me, told me to look forward to a call from them within the next couple of days and get going with the onboarding process. The next morning I woke up to an automated email saying my application had been rejected.

I can’t even get a dead-end, minimum wage retail or fast food job.

I’ve been paying rent for the past few months with a credit card, and as of right now, I’m all out of money, I don’t know how I’m going to pay rent next month.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m going to try to talk to my landlord about the situation, but I’m not too hopeful. Maybe at best they’ll “let me” break out of my lease without charging me a termination fee. I don’t know.

I’ve kinda just checked out, trying to keep my mind distracted as much as I can before everything eventually catches up to me. I feel so fucking worthless and pathetic.

I’m sorry, it’s probably a lot heavier than what this thread was intended for, it just saw it as I was doomscrolling to keep myself distracted and kinda just threw myself in…

Yeah, they do have a forum where you may find better direct download links, but you need to sign up and sign-ups are locked and only unlock once a month or so.

They also have a torrent-specific site but that one also requires an account and is pretty much always locked from what I’ve seen.

I haven’t gone there in a while, but a good few years ago I found cgpersia whoch which had a whole bunch of tutorials and asset packs.

Don’t know if they’re still reliable though.

It does provide you with access to the IoT LTSC or LTSC editions which I believe would still allow you to skip the need to set up a Microsoft account.

I could be wrong on that detail, it’s been a while.

Unfortunately I can't use the front ports on the case because the cables for it don't reach the plug on the motherboard.

Haven't thought to try OBS, I'll have to give it a go tomorrow!

I do appreciate the attempt to help me troubleshoot it, even if unsuccessful!

Yyyyep, shows up on lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 174c:2174 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASMT2307
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:5411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5411 Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b05:1b9b ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB Audio
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1532:00aa Razer USA, Ltd Razer Basilisk V3 Pro
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1532:0292 Razer USA, Ltd DSV2 Pro
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0b05:19af ASUSTek Computer, Inc. AURA LED Controller
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0489:e13a Foxconn / Hon Hai Wireless_Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174c:3174 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASMT2307
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:0411 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

I went and booted into Windows to double check how the audio devices are set up and I don't think I've ever seen onboard audio controllers show up like this with previous motherboards, which might explain why I'm having such a hard time getting it to work on Linux. It seems to be throwing whatever is plugged into the jack ports through two different hoops. The devices themselves (Speakers and Mac Mini) aren't directly connecting to the integrated Realtek audio card, and it seems like there's another layer of audio processing happening in-between. I don't know, I know nothing about audio so I'm kinda talking out of my ass based on what I'm expecting to see and what I'm seeing...

This is what lspci -k returns, I'm seeing no mention of Realtek and the only audio related things I'm seeing appear to be the CPU's iGPU (73:00.1) and the GPU's (01:00.1) audio...

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Root Complex
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge IOMMU
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_piix4, sp5100_tco
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 3
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 147a
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 147a
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme
[…]
71:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2426 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2421
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
72:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2425 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2421
	Kernel driver in use: thunderbolt
	Kernel modules: thunderbolt
73:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics] (rev c5)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
	Kernel modules: amdgpu
73:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
73:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h PSP/CCP
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: ccp
	Kernel modules: ccp
73:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
73:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
74:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15b8
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8877
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

The deeper I dig the less I understand.

Edit: had to redact the code-block because it seems there’s a character limit and it was long enough to hit it.

The only actual microphone I have is a USB microphone, and I've had no problem using it for Discord calls, but that unfortunately doesn't apply to the Line In port.

Currently looking up how to figure out if I can force Arch to use snd_hda_intel if it isn't already.

This is what lspci returns:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge GPP Bridge
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Internal GPP Bridge to Bus [C:A]
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD (rev 01)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Upstream Port (rev 01)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
04:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
04:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
04:08.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
04:0c.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
04:0d.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset PCIe Switch Downstream Port (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 06)
07:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7927
08:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD (rev 01)
09:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43fc (rev 01)
0a:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 600 Series Chipset SATA Controller (rev 01)
0b:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2421 (rev 01)
0c:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2423 (rev 01)
0c:01.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2423 (rev 01)
0c:02.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2423 (rev 01)
0c:03.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2423 (rev 01)
71:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2426 (rev 01)
72:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 2425 (rev 01)
73:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics] (rev c5)
73:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
73:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h PSP/CCP
73:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
73:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raphael/Granite Ridge USB 3.1 xHCI
74:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15b8

dmesg | grep snd returns the following so it seems like snd_hda_intel is at least present if not being used already?

[    6.081625] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    6.081703] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[    6.081707] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[    6.081779] snd_hda_intel 0000:73:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    6.081804] snd_hda_intel 0000:73:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[    6.125693] snd_hda_intel 0000:73:00.1: bound 0000:73:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu])
[   11.806279] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

Same as other audio software, “USB Audio Device” for both Output and Input, both are enabled and volume at 75% or higher, capture is enabled on the Input, if Kmix shows audio activity levels then it’s not detecting anything either despite media playing on the Mac Mini

If I plug the speakers directly to the Mac Mini and play media, audio comes out of the speakers. Running arecord to try to record the Mac Mini’s audio coming in from Line In results in a blank WAV file with no audio.

I believe KDE’s sound settings is supposed to show audio activity levels, but to be extra sure I tried pavucontrol and other apps (like Discord) and they all show zero audio activity levels despite Line In being enabled and volume up.

The HD-Audio Generic is the CPU’s (AMD Ryzen 7 9700X) iGPU (ATI R6xx HDMI) audio, when I select it, it shows four S/PDIF items that are disabled and cannot be enabled.

Disabling USB Audio in KDE’s sound settings and enabling HD-Audio Generic gives 8 audio channel that provide no audio whatsoever.

I'm not seeing anything about loopback mixing, but here's how my alsamixer looks at the moment:

In KDE Plasma's sound settings, both ports are set correctly, I tried messing around with the profiles but Analog Stereo Duplex seems to be the default and seems to work best.

All settings are pretty much identical compared to before the motherboard upgrade, back when audio loopback worked no problem.