Controll the sound card from the CLI
Instead of using alsamixer, you can use the following to unmute the sound card: amixer set Master 100% unmute amixer set PCM 100% unmute [...]
Deactivate the system beep
The system beep can be really annoying sometimes. In Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, you can blacklist it: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Add the following at the end of the file: #speaker beep [...]
