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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] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If it's just Crunchyroll doing this, you can disable auto-play for it (or just disable it for all sites, IMO automatic playback of media is pretty annoying).

Another alternative is to use Auto Tab Discard, which automatically suspends tabs which are inactive after x seconds. This also helps save memory and CPU usage, and also greatly benefits laptop users. So if you tend to leave your browser open and have dozens of tabs in the background, I'd highly recommend getting this.

[–] meekah 6 points 6 months ago

I think auto tab discard is what I'm looking for, thank you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

crunchy roll

Ye if it's a website it'll auto-refresh sometimes and start playback as the cached buffered chunks age

[–] meekah 5 points 6 months ago

That makes sense, this is probably it. I'm gonna try the add-on the other user was recommending and see if it happens again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's just the new AI porn saying "watch me plsss"

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

Cat on keyboard?

[–] meekah 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think that's it, I thought so at first as well but started closing the laptop lid because of that, and it still happens

[–] [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