The null sink and its two loopbacks were loaded at startup and stayed
loaded forever. While loaded they link the microphone and the speaker
device into a single PipeWire driver group: the microphone drives the
graph and the speaker device runs as a clock follower, so every playback
stream pays for continuous cross-device resampling.
Nothing needs the chain while idle — recording is triggered manually.
Build it in toggle_recording() and drop it as soon as the audio is
captured, before transcription runs for minutes.
Module ids are now derived from pactl instead of tracked in a state file,
so a crashed process cannot leave stale ids behind. The state file only
holds the device selection. Startup tears down any leftover chain.
Loopbacks get latency_msec=200; transcription is offline, and a small
buffer would put these nodes on the graph's realtime deadline.