https://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man

wikipedia and other links(for your convenience):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)

https://johnperkins.org/economichitmanbook

@greenjeans @igorzwx

If that were possible, I would have gotten dementia listening to and laughing at the orange guy in power rambling about nothing for the last 10 years.

As opposed to the doddering old parasite who in his dotage didn't really decide anything and couldn't in fact sign his own name to documents attributed to him?

There's your ultimate poster child for the dangers of dementia right there. Help folks yes, elect them to office...just no....

If that were possible, I would have gotten dementia listening to and laughing at the orange guy in power rambling about nothing for the last 10 years.

I think your posts are giving people dementia.

It seems that they provoke thinking. Although, of course, thinking does not necessarily imply understanding.

Hearing loss and the risk of dementia
_https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/managing-the-risk-of-dementia/reduce-your-risk-of-dementia/hearing-loss

Medical research indicates that solving puzzles can help slow down cognitive decline.
_https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/preventing-dementia-brain-exercises
Engaging in mentally stimulating activities, such as compilation of Debian packages, may help maintain cognitive abilities and potentially delay memory loss or dementia. From this point of view, your "apps that are simple to use and understand" might be rather harmful, because they prevent thinking, and, therefore, can accelerate cognitive decline.

Linux still does not provide any support for those affected with cognitive decline and dementia.

Not altogether true. Some of us are working to simplify things. All these projects i've been working on lately, that are so simple most folks dismiss them with a laugh or a "windows 95" comment, have many reasons why they exist.

One of the main ones being I live in a town with a large population of folks over 60, my wife in fact does home care/therapy for a 92 year old lady. I'm working on apps that are simple to use and understand, with large print for old eyes, and things like buttons that say what they do right on them instead of symbols that folks may not understand. Things like that.

$ apt remove xfce4 --simulate
NOTE: This is only a simulation!

One may argue that "a wiki is useless" simply because any wiki (or technical documentation) is likely to be misunderstood. Debian may surely need a sort of very advanced AI which may help Linux users to understand Debian wiki.
There is a belief that "Linux provides a robust set of assistive technologies to support users with disabilities." However, Linux still does not provide any support for those affected with cognitive decline and dementia.

I'm assuming you verified that the plugin is installed? That's where the tray icon/control seems to come from.

You also probably need pavucontrol if you haven't already installed that.

Really for that old machine just for music storage, you should roll you up a tiny little Openbox system with pure alsa, nice clean low-latency sound. Just throw something light like Rox-filer and Tint2 on there, you can customize for just that machine and it would be tiny.

$ apt-file list xfce4
xfce4: /usr/share/doc/xfce4/NEWS.Debian.gz
xfce4: /usr/share/doc/xfce4/README.Debian
xfce4: /usr/share/doc/xfce4/changelog.gz
xfce4: /usr/share/doc/xfce4/copyright

xfce4 is heavy and buggy (because of innovations). MATE was optimized for old computers (2003-2008).
MATE is a fork of Gnome2 (which was deprecated in 2010).

$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: master14 Kernel: 6.1.0-37-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 Desktop: N/A
    Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 900 v: 0302
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 900 v: x.xx serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0302 date: 03/21/2008
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.9 Wh (79.9%) condition: 43.7/43.7 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 8.3 min: 8.4
CPU:
  Info: single core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 cache: 512 KiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 900 min/max: N/A core: 1: 900
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915
    v: kernel
  Device-2: Genesys Logic USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: swrast gpu: i915 resolution:
    1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1280x1024
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 128 bits)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-37-686 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: ath5k
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <redacted>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L2 Fast Ethernet driver: atl2
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <redacted>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 11.27 GiB used: 3.86 GiB (34.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: ASUS model: PHISON OB SSD size: 3.76 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: ASUS model: PHISON SSD size: 7.52 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.3 GiB used: 3.46 GiB (47.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
  ID-2: /home size: 2.65 GiB used: 410.1 MiB (15.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1014 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1510
Info:
  Processes: 121 Uptime: 38m Memory: 989.5 MiB used: 452.9 MiB (45.8%)
  Shell: sh inxi: 3.3.26

So we're back to the original question. How can I set the default audio level in PAVC so it comes on the way I want it without fiddling to set it up every time?