…are you an insane person?

For fucking real. What exactly are you trying to justify here in this comment?

And it mentioned nothing…

Welp, while you’re sitting around thinking about it, I guess everyone else has to scrap shit to live.

Good for you in being neutral.

Continued fascist bullshit.

Are you Tucker Carlson by chance? Would LOVE to pick your brain about how you switch sides so fluidly when it’s more monetarily beneficial to you!

Nah. Get lost.

The exact thing a fascist would say.

Get fucked.

Using it to describe the vernacular is different than employing the tactic.

Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin are all dead.

Seems it’s a safe thing to describe it.

Only one way that happens though.

Lookup fascism.

It’s anyone “they” convince you is “them”.

I think everyone agrees.

It’s now Us v Them. People need to start realizing that.

We really need to think about banning certain people from the Fediverse.

Get fucked, you Fascist-kink clown.

I will kink shame for this.

Config wouldn’t BLOCK it from being detected, that’s the problem.

Have you checked for a BIOS update recently?

1. To launch apps: Super key, type in name of app, hit enter. That’s it.

2. Window Management: good writeup from that team: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/ Quick cheat sheet for relevant keys there as well: https://thedroidguy.com/gnome-desktop-keyboard-shortcuts-for-efficient-workflow-and-navigation-1263904

Then I would try the above and make sure you don’t have a mixer confused somewhere.

Actually…not true. Nvidia recently became bigger in the DC because of their terrible inference cards being bought up, but AMD overtook Intel on chips with all major cloud platforms last year, and their Xilinix chips are slowly overtaking the sales of regular CPUs for special purposes processing. By the end of this year, I bet AMD will be the most deployed brand in datacenters globally. FPGA is the only path forward in the architecture world at this point for speed and efficiency in single-purpose processing. Nvidia doesn’t have a competing product.

Because they choose not to go full idiot though. They could make their top-line cards to compete if they slam enough into a pipeline and require a dedicated PSU to compete, but that’s not where their product line intends to go. That’s why it’s smart.

For reference: AMD has the most deployed GPUs on the planet as of right now. There’s a reason why it’s in every gaming console except Switch 1/2, and why OpenAI just partnered with them for chips. The goal shouldn’t just making a product that churns out results at the cost of everything else does, but to be cost-effective and efficient. Nvidia fails at that on every level.

AMD is at least running the smart game on their hardware releases with generational leaps instead of just jacking up power requirements and clock speeds as Nvidia does. Hell, even Nvidia’s latest lines of Jetson are just recooked versions from years ago.

My mind is still blown on why people are so interested in spending 2x the cost of the entire machine they are playing on AND a hefty power utility bill to run these awful products from Nvidia. Generational improvements are minor on the performance side, and fucking AWFUL on the product and efficiency side. You’d think people would have learned their lessons a decade ago.

Okay, so this is one of Asus’s consumer models that fits in the “Windowstop” category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.

It’s got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn’t mean the microphone will be, especially if it’s on the USB bus for whatever reason.

Couple questions:

1. Do other microphones work, just not internal?
2. Does your volume control work as expected
3. Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged?
4. What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?

As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the ‘hw’ view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.

If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it’s not being enabled as an input sink.

If none of these work, you’re going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can’t detect it.

From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that’s going to be problematic if it’s a USB device for a number of reasons I won’t dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160d3wj/asus_creator_laptop_q530v_constant_problems/

What’s the exact model number of this Asus laptop?