Ghoelian

Those tools were made for pulseaudio, not pipewire, so it makes sense they worm the same. Don’t they have pipewire-specific versions of these tools?

Could be some program using your microphone. A lot of headsets will go into hands-free mode when you do that.

Fedora (immutable at least) has it disabled by default I think, but it’s just one checkbox away in one of the setup menus.