cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48806122
A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it’s unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.
So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac “perpetual” will lose access to it next month.
The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.
Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished
Good job 👍🏻
Which distro? I had a similar issue
Mint. I’ve gotten the popping/crackling to a minimum, but it’s still happening occasionally. (Oddly it happens most often with games that have sound disabled both by OS and via in game)
It was annoying enough I saved it, I highly recommend starting some sort of docs setup so future you can remember how you fixed things. This fixed it for me, granted I was on pop but both Ubuntu based so same layers underneath.
Audio Crackling
You can fix this by increasing the minimum audio buffer size, which, in turn, will increase the overall audio latency.
It’s not good for real-time professional audio recording, but it won’t hurt the general gaming and multimedia experience unless you use a very high value to the point it leads to a noticeable desync with video. Test with a greater minimum quantum
This takes effect immediately, but it won’t persist across reboots.
This worked for me
Increasing the minimum quantum permanently
The default is 1024.
cat << EOF > ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/fix-crackle.conf context.properties = { default.clock.min-quantum = 2048 } EOF systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumberYou can revert this by just deleting the file. Alternative method
This will improve the handling of low-latency audio at the expense of overall higher CPU usage and with that, power usage.
sudo kernelstub -a threadirqs reboot