Enter CoolStar—a legendary developer in the Hackintosh and Linux communities who had essentially written a translation dictionary. CoolStar had patched the Linux kernel to understand SST audio. All Alex had to do was install it.
It was entirely silent. The little volume icon in the top right corner had a menacing red "X" over it. When Alex plugged in his headphones, nothing. When he tried to play a YouTube video, nothing. His beloved 2015 MacBook Pro had been struck by the most notorious curse in the Linux laptop world: coolstar sst audio driver download