idk if it's some new shit in pulseaudio, i'm running zorin 17.2, based on ubuntu 22.04 and yesterday i think there was an update in pulseaudio shit somewhere and it looks like for my system the timer scheduling is bugged and i was getting constant dropouts every 4 seconds or so

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Troubleshooting_buffer_underruns_(glitches,_skips,_crackling)

disabling tsched fixed it

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