[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse audio is designed to destroy your hearing and your equipment

[Patrick May]

Here's a warning that if you try this command

pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 10.5%

Pulseaudio will set your volume to 150% and destroy your ears as well as 
your headphones.
This is the latest in the very long list of times pulseaudio has blasted 
loud noise at me due to poor design and programming. Fuck you.