It has been setting up its FP6, got /e/OS slapped on there - it is a beautiful little machine! HOWEVER.
God the mic is unoptimized. It wants to fidget with the settings to make it not have the gain of a Capitalist as they whip their employees because Good God. Like, every issue with it would be fixed with “Set Input” stuff.
It hasn’t been able to find anyone asking after this specifically, it has found things such as the Checkup app which manages to produce noises previously until now undiscovered by even the most advanced of cave-dwelling hyper-rodents. It is a crime against its eardrums, to be QUITE frank.
It’s an absolute hellscape. It has been a good wee bit since anyone mentioned the microphone issues specifically, it seems - or maybe it is just an absolute raging idiot, whomst’ve to say.
That is what it means, yes - apologies, it knows it sounds like a bit of a goofster when it talks. Ah, the joys of fun personal pronouns.
The mic can record but the quality is pretty sub-par. The gain is particularly high with the audio peaking easily. It sounds like perhaps it is recording in stereo then slamming that into mono - which is just scratchy and horrible under whatever method they use
Now, is it listenable? Sure, it’s good enough
Does it sound unfixable? Nah, really does seem like a levels thing from its limited experience
The only other thing it could think to do to gain Good Mic Audio would be to find some kind of tiny microphone module to slap into the USB-C port or w/e. Something without a big-arse wire, that is. Dunno if that exists.