A necro post to say thanks for the solution to getting even more of that scumbags code off my machine. Did not know I was even running it until I saw pulseaudio getting updated. Search and found this page with one of the easiest solutions I have ever done I do believe. Create an .xsessionrc with the contents from above the first one with the sleep 1 posting in it, install the pipewire-audio that removes the pulseaudio package then reboot to have working audio on the pipewire server. Perfect thanks again.