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Alex bought a $12 generic USB volume knob from Aliexpress. It was all aluminum, with a satisfyingly heavy rotary encoder and a ring of RGB LEDs. He took it apart. He removed its internal USB sound card. He kept only the knob, the encoder, and the LED ring. The problem