can’t you order online and have it ship to you?

i have an ancient server mobo with not-that-much RAM but like 6 SATA. not beefy enough for many VMs and such but enough for a tough ZFS storage. additional SATAs are provided by PCI/SATA cards

one with as many SATA slots as possible

sorry, i of course meant PipeWire, wayland has nothing to do with audio.

i stopped having such problems ever since i switched to wayland. i guess you could find the right configs and persist it with ALSA and PulseAudio config files