Does anyone have a CONCISE TEXTUAL explanation of how to get obs studio to twitch stream?

I want to share LIVE AUDIO with FRIENDS using a LINUX and NOTHING WORKS and I am getting ANGRY.

I have the twitch streaming key set up, and punched in some video and audio settings recommended by webpages, and I hit start streaming. OBS shows 3 green bars and no dropped frames, but twitch says I'm offline >:O

I'm on a discord call with these people and I tried just screen sharing fucking obs so they could hear it because I have OBS monitoring the mic, but that isn't sharing the audio either (probably) because fuck you wayland I swear to god wayland was made by people who don't have friends.

I was thinking I should take another crack at figuring out how to live stream audio over the internet on linux in advance of hanging out with friends on a call video call tonight

but it's so insanely hot in here today honestly just being awake is kind of exhausting maybe I shouldn't bother

"sorry ladies, it looks like 2025 isn't going to be the year of linux on the desktop either 😔"

if anyone knows a way to live broadcast an audio stream over the internet to ~4 listeners I'm all ears though. My requirements are simple though:

- must be relatively straight forward to set up even if you have a headache and you're tired

- works on wayland

- easy to explain to the listeners how to tune in

- doesn't involve twitch

- doesn't require giving a company my phone number (eg youtube)

- doesn't require a hacked discord client

- preferably doesn't involve obs

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What are your latency requirements? (The broadcasting setups I've seen add OoM of small seconds to latency; I've seen lower only from things intended for use as voice chat.)

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