This person backs up.

Enforcing the law is generally not something people refer to as corruption.

Such as username and password?

I do run some servers, but use robust passwords.

So how would a bad actor start a remote session on my Linux pc?

Edited to add, downvoted for trying to learn is a new one for me.

By chaining legitimate services such as udisks loop-mounts and PAM/environment quirks, attackers who own any active GUI or SSH session can vault across polkit’s allow_active trust zone and emerge as root in seconds.

I recognize a few of those words.

This was the solution, thank you!

Voicemeteer also seems to be a mystery to y’all.

I don’t appreciate your condescending tone, tbh. If you are not interested in helping us, you can stop replying.

Voicemeteer was taking our two mics and turning them into a single source that we could then feed to Discord and OBS. That should be it. I’m not completely sure it wasn’t applying some other kind of filters, but I don’t think it was, that’s not what it’s supposed to do. So let’s say we have Mic Source 1 and Mic Source 2. Voicemeteer took the input from both of those and combined them into Combined Source. We then pointed OBS and Discord to use Combined Source. That’s all we’re trying to achieve on Linux right now.

Krisp is a feature of Discord. It is available on Linux. We have used this post to accomplish what we want to do with Discord, but this solution does not work for OBS. On Discord, others on call do not report hearing this echo effect. It only appears in OBS recording when we use Mic Source 1 and Mic Source 2. I am not convinced that Krisp is a factor here, as we have tested with it off, but I felt it was worth mentioning. It seems to have confused the situation though.

(reposting this in a higher comment for other people to potentially see)

Y’all need carpet on the floors, maybe something on the walls, and to be facing each other from across the table with cardiod mics.

The room is not professionally treated for sound, but we do have one wall (behind the mics) 90% covered with 2" sound dampening foam. Lots of stuff on the other walls, rugs, etc. It is not a bare-bones room. Our mics are good quality cardioid mics and while our setups are not 180° back-to-back, the mics point away from each other when in use. I don’t know if I can explain well enough with words, but we sit side-by-side with the mics between us on arms. They swing down between us, stretch out towards us, and point away from each other. They are about 1.5 to 2 feet apart from each other, pointed away, when in use.

The room is not professionally treated for sound, but we do have one wall (behind the mics) 90% covered with 2" sound dampening foam. Lots of stuff on the other walls, rugs, etc. It is not a bare-bones room. Our mics are good quality cardioid mics and while our setups are not 180° back-to-back, the mics point away from each other when in use. I don’t know if I can explain well enough with words, but we sit side-by-side with the mics between us on arms. They swing down between us, stretch out towards us, and point away from each other. They are about 1.5 to 2 feet apart from each other, pointed away, when in use.

You’re right, that would help. I am not 100% sure that it was not applying some kind of echo/noise filtering. If you’re aware of any software that can do this on linux, we will try that.

Sorry I’m just dumb, I meant that it faces west lmao.

A software solution is fine for us. We cannot change mic arrangement any more than it already is due to physical restraints in room. The mics are faced away from each other. They are good quality XLR mics and run through a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2.

You were depending on heavy real time post processing in software

Are you talking about Voicemeteer?

what are you recording for

We play TTRPGs online via Discord and FoundryVTT, and record the sessions. We use OBS to capture webcams on Discord, the virutal tabletop, desktop audio for other people’s voices/music from the vtt, and mic audio for our voices.

On Windows, we used Voicemeteer to combine our mics. We could use this resulting combination for both OBS and Discord. Since we cannot find similar software so far for linux, we came across the solution I linked above. It works for getting our mics to be combined into one for Discord, but doesn’t show up as an input in OBS. We cannot get OBS to “listen to” the combined sink output.

So, instead, we just set them up as two different mics in OBS. This would be fine, except the recording as the echo problem. Over Discord, I assume because it’s getting Krisp noise suppression applied, there is no echo. But after listening to the OBS recording, there is echo. So, a software solution to noise/echo suppress might be what we need as well, but that’s why we’re asking for help.

We have a setup that works fine with Windows, so I refuse accept that we cannot make it work the same way with Linux. I feel like a lot of people here are not focusing on the main questions we had about how we can achieve a goal.

We figured out how to merge the mic inputs into a single sink, but it’s an output. We used this post to achieve it. This helps us, and works for Discord. On Discord the echo is not a problem, but it’s using the built in Krisp to do noise suppression, so that might be part of it.

On Windows, as described in OP, we used VoiceMeteer to combine the inputs. It’s possible this was achieving some kind of noise suppression too, but I don’t see how or why that would be the case. Either way, in Windows, there is no echo problem. We use the same exact setup to be on Discord and record our inputs through OBS without any echo.

51° N. I’m also on the fourth floor of a building, so the horizon is farther away. I’m exaggerating a little bit. By “still up” I really mean it’s still bright enough out, twilighty, that it would affect my ability to sleep. Bedroom window also faces east west, so, yeah it’s a combination of factors but still.

These are just frankly necessary if you live far enough north. When I’m going to sleep at 11pm ish, the sun is still up lmao.

Oh my gods I didn’t even notice that until you pointed it out. It’s so upsetting.

I generally agree, but the sexy nurse critique is hard to take honestly. Even the devs themselves reused the sexy nurse in future games because it became so iconic, even though they didn’t make sense for those protagonists necessarily.

I was expelled for a year.

In the first or second month of my eighth grade, I found an x-acto knife on the ground outside the school in the morning. It was normal for kids to arrive earlier than school hours began and hang out in front, usually forming friend groups. I just held it up my sleeve as I made my way to my friend group. I also wore long, baggy sleeves so this wasn’t even really something I had to go out of my way to do.

When I got to my friends, being a dumb kid, I showed them all as a “hey look what I found” kind of deal. After they all saw it, I put it into my backpack. School was starting.

First period of school, an adult comes into the class and asks me to come with them. They take me to my locker where they open it and search it and find the x-acto knife. They asked me what I was doing with it, and I was honest, I said I found it that morning. They bring me to the office and bring my parents in, they had to leave work to do so.

They sit us all down and tell us that another student accused me of threatening them with the knife, as in, threatening to use it to do physical harm. I most certainly did not, but they weren’t really interested in any excuses and said I have two options: join this boot-camp-esque disciplinary program which involved a ton of bullshit like forced attire, forced haircut, forced schedule, and more; or I could be expelled for the entire school year.