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Auto-selects sound devices on login

Motivation

The Ubuntu prioritizes the USB sound card over the internal sound card. This is not always what one wants. Some examples:

  1. USB camera with not-so-good microphone, when a better microphone is connected to the internal sound card.
  2. USB microphone with option to monitor recorded sound, that is recognized as possible output, when speakers are connected to the internal sound card.

In both scenarios, the system will select the USB device instead of the internal sound card. This is not always what one wants.