The Strangest Bug Of All Time - Audio back to 100% after screensaver

This almost feels like someone is pulling a practical joke on me. In the last few days I've noticed that at (seemingly) random intervals my gloabal volume was set to 100% by no fault of my own. This resulted in me nearly falling out of my chair several times and waking up my roomate once last night when I went to play some music or watch a video. I may have permanent hearing damage (I have some sweet PC speakers).
I just inferred that if I leave my laptop for some time, come back and unlock the screen, the volume will always be at 100%.  So I'm not blowing out speakers anymore, but still quite annoying.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I have to say this is probably the most hilarious bug I have ever experienced in the near decade I have been using Linux.

ngoonee wrote:
Fingel wrote:I just inferred that if I leave my laptop for some time, come back and unlock the screen, the volume will always be at 100%.  So I'm not blowing out speakers anymore, but still quite annoying.
You should test this out (perhaps by disabling the screensaver and leaving the computer), as it sounds its a partial assumption you're making (which may not be helpful in narrowing down the true reason).
You're right. Its a very partial assumption. Im not so sure anymore its screensaver related. I'm really busy at the moment so I don't have a lot of time to fool around but hopefully I can come up with something soon.

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