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Might want to be more accurate on this. It depends how far up you have the sound for a particular app set and or how high you have your speakers set.
That’s what the next sentence means:
“[…] it’s designed only for temporary use to boost the volume of quiet media.”
I.e. use your effing common sense.
Well, the correct solution would be to monitor the output for heavy clipping when the amplification it is over 100% and show a notification when it is detected for a while.
I have this toggle enabled all the time because sometimes it is nice to just raise the volume over 100% without fiddling with the mouse and menus. Nearly all of the time I stay below 100% volume, and in those times the warning is unfounded because no clipping can occur. Glad the auto-reset didn’t make it, I can ignore the warning.
Old hat for some, but I recently discovered PulseAudio Volume Control which was nice because for a too-quiet video stream I could select Firefox, increase it to 120% while leaving the speakers at 100%.
Perhaps the text should be changed to encourage people to change the volume on the application stream instead of the speakers?
In the 5.x series I have a checkbox already for raise maximum volume of the speakers but not the application stream, so pavucontrol is a must there.
This one is excellent
And I prefer to set the speaker and sound card volume and just use the slider on the video or audio app to adjust the volume up or down so setting the setting in system setting to 150% in my case isn’t going to hurt a thing.