nixos/pulseaudio: disable flat-volumes by default
The motivation for this is that some applications are unaware of this feature and can set their volume to 100% on startup harming people ears and possiblly blowing someone's audio setup. I noticed this in #54594 and by extension epiphany[0]. Please also note that many other distros have this default for the reason outlined above. Closes #5632 #54594 [0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675217
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use <literal>nixos-rebuild boot; reboot</literal>.
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<para>
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Flat volumes are now disabled by default in <literal>hardware.pulseaudio</literal>.
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This has been done to prevent applications, which are unaware of this feature, setting
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their volumes to 100% on startup causing harm to your audio hardware and potentially your ears.
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<note>
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<para>
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With this change application specific volumes are relative to the master volume which can be
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adjusted independently, whereas before they were absolute; meaning that in effect, it scaled the
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device-volume with the volume of the loudest application.
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</note>
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