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Laptop randomly playing media (self.linux)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by meekah to c/[email protected]

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Edit: sadly, Auto Tab Discard did not fix my issue. Firefox is also set to block audio (including video with audio to my understanding) by default, which I never changed so I don't think that helps with this issue either.

So I installed pop on my laptop a few months ago, and recently got another one where I installed arch. On both laptops I mostly just watched series, and often times I'd just leave the laptop with the media player still open.

Now to the issue: Randomly throughout the day, it would just start playing whatever I left open, usually after a few hours of being left alone. Now that I think about it, I think it was only crunchyroll. Does anyone experience anything similar, or might even have an idea as to how to fix this or what causes this? Is it just crunchyroll being buggy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No idea, but it might help others to know what Desktop Environment you were using, browser, addons, etc.

[–] meekah 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair point.

I don't think DE has anything to do with it since it happened on both GNOME on pop, and Xfce on arch.

On both machines I'm using Firefox and have the following addons:

Ublock origin, bitwarden, sponsorblock for youtube and bring back dislikes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're not using KDE connect perhaps?

[–] meekah 1 points 6 months ago

Nope, just on my gaming tower, but those laptops shouldn't have it installed and I definitely never set up a connection to my phone