[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Water has to be cleaned. It is renewable, not free. My city has many sources, but most places where they build datacenters do not. It is a real problem

Either way the biggest proble, IMO, is the pressure on the electric grid. If the asshats building the centers would cooperate with others, there would be much less problems.

As for power usage, yea its a lot but still not an insane amount. The image and video generation uses a LOT more then text.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Not really. It's up to the software, soundcard, and/or recording.

    Stereo headphones are surround. The reason laptop speakers are not is because they are in front of you. Headphones are one for each ear, separate.

    Our brain is very sensitive to phase difference between sound in either ear. That is how we can tell sound direction. It's like triangulation, except the third variable is the shape of our ears (is it comming from the front or the back, see HRTF again).

    There is no such thing as surround headphones. There can not even be such a thing. All headphones are surround. It's either sound card drivers, software in the chain, the recording itself, or just marketing. Get "normal" headphones and check out some directional audio videos on youtube.

    Openal is an audio library used by some older games and they patched HRTF into it to make it sound even more surround.

    Decent headphones that are comfortable are better then even more expensive full room setups, although just for one person.

    Edit: Funny enough the last time I explained this was to an audio engineer. Took him a bit, but he got it when I used sharks ears as an example.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Stereo headphones are surround sound. It's how ears work. You percieve position by how late the sound comes to one ear compared to the other. There is a bit more, but I don't want to write on the phone more. Google HRTF for that part.

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