Ubuntu 22: HOW DO I STOP MY COMPUTER FROM RESETTING THE VOLUME TO MAX???

[InDarkestNight]

This damned computer is going to make my lose my hearing. At max volume, everything is too damned loud. However, if I turn it down, the thing keeps turning it back up at random. For instance, just now I was watching youtube videos, when suddenly my headphones starting blaring at max volume. I found that yet again, ubuntu had set firefox's volume to max WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF WATCHING A VIDEO. I tried to solve this by turning down the volume on my headphones (it has its own volume slider), but that turns down everything. In particular, I can't hear Skyrim while the have my headphones set a level for my computer playing everything at 100%. I have to turn it up to fix that, but I keep forgetting to turn it back down. Why does skyrim have to be so quiet for? Why can't I set its volume to comparable to everything else? Even with fallout shelter I had to set the volume to half.

Anyway, I need a permanent solution to this before I go deaf. Who knows how much of my hearing I've lost already from my headphones screeching in my ears at random. Everything I can find is for like ubuntu 12 or some other outdated version. None of the answers to such questions are applicable to my version. Why must I suffer like this? Why must my computer be literally torturing me? Why can't I play Skyrim without running into a stupid glitch that nobody else is having AND ITS ACTUALLY HARMING MY HEALTH? I put this in all caps because this is legitimately dire; my health is suffering from this, this is more than an issue with Skyrim or any game.

[zixi]

This is the simplest fix and you may well have tried it. If you have then ignore and jump to point 2.

1. Go to the Settings Menu (top right hand side ). 

Choose  "Sound"

Look at Output Device and slide to a point where you want it to be. **Then check that Overamplication is switched OFF. **

2. If you've done that and/or it still continues then it could be all manner of things. Sound in Linux is complex because there are several ways of dealing with it and each one has its fans. You may be better off asking at a Linux forum.