On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 07:52:47AM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote: > The tip is disconnecting the main speakers because the tip is pushing a > tab over that acts as a switch. You will need to get the tip out.
It's a bit more advanced than that on most modern laptops. On a simple device like a cassette recorder from 30 years ago the switch typically directly connected or disconnected the speaker. I.E. it was hard wired to do that. On a modern laptop the switch is just a sensor providing input to an I/O pin of the audio hardware. The actual routing to speaker, headphones, both, or neither, is almost always under software control. There are various circumstances where you might want the audio to go to both the internal speakers and the headphone jack, for example, and this is usually possible.
