What's up at home today...?

Spent half a day trying to fix something that was not a problem in the beginning.

So... after I installed H&D2 on my Arch, after a couple more 32-bit needed packages
(ended up removing all and then reinstalling only some), I decided to test the sound...
which was not working fine... it was like listening to someone on Discord/TS that's
talking from the bathroom... both in game and on desktop. WTH??? It's Linux,
I gotta fix it. 6 hours later, reading a lot of threads and wiki pages, not actually
implementing any "fixes" because my intuition said "doesn't look
like this will fix my problem". It didn't. I thought I messed up my system, until had
touched the headset wire extension that goes into the external USB audio card.

Since a couple of months, because I'm not keeping the headset always on the
table, I just unplug it when I don't use it. It seems that the insides of the usb sound
card are messed up there and got to fix it with adding some plastiline between the
headset extension jack and the mike jack. Usually it was just sound playing on right
or left headset, so I squeeze the plastiline and it was fixed. There we go, squeezed
it again and it's fixed. Me blaming it all on Linux

Also did a system update that didn't crash my kernel

I would've guessed you use encryption. Do you use a firewall? If yes,
which one?

I was also thinking about UFW... say someone recommend it in a
tutorial. I guess I don't need more Thank you.