[–] 15 points 22 hours ago

There is nothing to "believe", it is documented fact that large microphones does tend to produce the clearest sound.

Your mistake is comparing TV, a visual audio medium, to podcasts, a mainly audio medium, and expecting the same needs.

This is wrong.

TV has to compromise the audio quallity with the visual aspect.

TV accepts getting 90% of the audio quallity as large mics would be too impractical, radio doesn't have the visual limitations, and they use large membrane mics, same with podcasts.

I currently use a shotgun mic at home, mounted on a microphone arm, my setup is a Röde VideoMic Go II and a pair of Philips Fidelio X2HR headphones, it is brilliant for normal gaming/discord, the mic acts an audio interface that my headphones connects to as well and it is out of my way. But while the audio is excellent for gaming and would be find for podcasting guest apearences, for anything more demanding I would probably get a large membrane mic.

I may be an IT guy, but I am also a hobby photographer who finds AV tech fascinating.

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  • [–] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Sorry but that is a crap title.

    SSH will allow anyone into a Linux device as long as they can authenticate successfully.

    I get that they mean that the vulnerability bypasses the authentication, but still a shit title.

    Eh, I am probably just cranky as I just woke up.

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  • [–] 5 points 23 hours ago

    Nah, I saw a documentary about when Obama took office and the logistics involved, the First Lady/Gentleman/Partner (trying to be inclusive here for possible future scenarios) works with the WH staff to pick out the new furniture and decor to be used for the incomming president.

    Then during the presidential inauguation ceremony, the WH staff changes the furniture and decor as the old president attends the ceremony.

    I hope they simply quietly ignore this proclamation and quickly takes down Trumps Tasteless Tacky Trash in a mislabeled box and sends it to the trash rather than the normal furniture and decor storage. Only to be discovered 20 years later when it can simply be remembered as a random fact of the "Tragic Trump Terms".

    So when the next president comes in, it looks like it did before "Trumps Gold Rash" infected the building.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    Nope, we should not execute Trump, while he absolutely deserve to die, and I'll already have plans to celebrate when he is dead, we should not do the killing.

    There are several reasons for this:

    1. The state should never be in the business of killing it's own citizens, never no matter how terrible the person is.
    2. It would turn him into a martyr and give his people a powerful symbol to rally behind, this will still happen regardless of how he dies, but actively killing him would make it way, way worse.
    3. It would be too easy of a punishment, it is far harsher for a person to be put in a prison like ADX Florence, and have to live in complete isolation than just killing him.
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    Lately on yt I have been seeing a shitload of ads for a new oven with AI, it is marketed as knowing what you are cooking in it would make it better.

    I don't see how.

    Also, on the product page on the manufacturers web page, the second sentence of the body reads:

    Navigating through the extensive settings menu is beautifully simple with the new touch screen user interface.

    I am sorry, a fucking settings menu on an oven is a primary sales argument?

    What the hell?

    There is more shit:

    With cookControl Pro, all you have to do is select your dish, choose how you want it done, and let your oven do the rest.

    You mean like a normal oven? You set the temp according to the dish?.

    They even brags about internal steak and bread thermometers, we have had those for decades.

    Well obviously, it has a connection to an app or even a smart speaker, and ofcourse the UI on the oven is a touch UI.

    Thanks, but no thanks, I'll keep using my oven with normal knobs....

     

    Yesterday I went to a pick-your-own raspberries place, and picked a kilo och raspberries in two hours of slow podcast bliss, and today I made jam!

    Here is the haul of yesterday:

    Here is the finnished jam:

    It is probably one of the most natural jams you can find, in these jars you will only find Swedish raspberries, Swedish sugar and a tiny amount of Ukrainian vodka (SLAVA UKRAINI).

    The vodka was used to rinse and sterilize the jars and lids.

    As a 38 years old IT guy I find that there are few men who likes making jam, so I thought I'd ask here of anyone else are making jam....

     

    Hello again, I have decided to try and make these posts on fridays, to celebrate the end of the week!

    Here are some more stories from the amazing thread "Dumma saker ni gjort" on the Swedish forum Flashback!

    Just a clarification, you may have noticed that I include the post ID of the stories, that is just for me to keep track of what post in the thread I am currently using, I may not be using all of the post in my compilation, this is both to make it easier to read, but also to make it quicker to make these posts as I make them on my phone.

    Finally, I claim no copyright of anything in these posts.

    Here we go!


    Post ID 00016

    Author: Le Saboteur

    Jag och en kompis skulle åka min lådbil som jag hade byggt. Vi hittade en bra och fin backe och jag lägger i min kompis som testförare. Jag börjar putta på innan backen börjar och får upp en skitbra fart. Min kompis blir dock rädd och säger åt mig och stanna bilen. Dum som jag är tänkte jag att den stannar utav sig själv om man släpper den. Detta var som sagt aldeles innan en nerförsbacke och bilen stannar inte. Utan kör fort som fan ner för backen och ''hoppar'' över trotarkanten och landar på en gräsplätt. Min kompis fick en lätt hjärnskakning som tack för sitt testkörande...

    Me and a friend was heqding out to ride my soapbox cart that I had built.

    We found a nice hill to go down, and I put my friend in the soapbox cart as a test driver. 

    I give the cart a little push, and soon it picks up speed, my friend calls out to me to stop, but me being stupid thought "it will stop on it's own if you let go".

    Well, it didn't stop, instead it hits the main part of the hill. At the end of the hill the cart hit the curb of the sidewalk, and jumps onto a patch of grass.

    My friend got a concussion as thanks for being a test driver...


    Post ID 00022

    Author: Renegade

    11 år. Ute med polare i skogen bakom där jag bodde, på kvällen samma dag som vårstädningen varit i området. Det fanns många stora papperssäckar med sly och annat som var rensat. Vi samlade ihop ett antal säckar och tuttade på. Brann som fan, minre skogsbrand tilltog. Brandkåren kom. Alla barnen samlades och tittade på. Brandmästaren hade lång föreläsning för alla barn om faran med eld. Detta var ett bra varningsexempel, antagligen gjort av en professionell pyroman med onda avsikter tyckte han.. Fan heller, men det var coolt som fan att elda

    Eleven years old, out in the woods with my friends behind my house, it was in the evening after the community spring cleaning, and we found large paper sacks with dead and unwanted branches, plants and other garden trash that had been cleaned up earlier.

    We collected a number of sacks and lit them on fire.

    It burned like crazy, and soon we had a minor forrest fire om our hands.

    The fire department came and dealt with it, and later had a long lecture for us kids about the dangers of fire, this was good warning, probably done by a professional pryomanic with bad intent was what the lecturer thought.

    Hell no, but it was cool as hell to burn stuff


    Post ID 00024

    Author: Twitching Heep

    Tre år.  Min bror fyller år. Han och Hans/min kusin ligger i samma rum, jag och mor kommer in i rummet för att gratulera honom. Bror och kusin är yrvakna, jag tar upp en toffla och drämmer den i huvudet på kusin. Kusin får ett brutalt uppvaknande, och en stadig bula.

    Three years old, my brother's birthday, he and one of our cousins are sharing a room, me and my mum were entering the  room to wake up and congratulate my brother, however they just woke up before so they are a bit dazed, so I pick up a slipper and whack my cousin in his head with it.

    My cousin got a rude wakeup and bump on his head.


    Post ID 00025

    Author: tjoho

    7-8 år: Stor militärövning i vårt lilla samhälle. 300-400 grönklädda sitter på marken och äter, då tar jag och 2 polare vårt samlade förråd av påsksmällare och brassar på i en gammal plåttunna 20 meter därifrån. Alla grönkläder far upp som skitna ur en kanin, fram med vapen och jagar oss genom skogen. H-vete vad vi sprang, hade nog svårt att sova den natten.

    7-8 years old, there is a large military exercise in our little town. Me and my two friends se 3-400 military guys in green clothes sitting on the ground eating a meal.

    Me and my friends take our collection of firecrackers since easter, and set them off in an old metal drum 20 meters from the military guys, who all jumped up, grabbed their guns, and started chasing us through a local forrest.

    We ran fast as hell, and when we got back home in time for bed we had a really hard time trying to sleep...


    Post ID 00060

    Author: Tussan

    3-4 år....stoppar glatt toapapper i brödrosten...tog sig riktigt fint, spreds t gardinen i köket, då min ömma moder kommer farandes upp fr tvättstugan och räddar huset!

    3-4 years old, happily shoving toiletpaper in the toaster... As the fire spread to the curtains in the kitchen, my dear mother commes rushing up from the laundry room and saves the house!


    Post ID 00064

    Author: La Saboteur

    12-13år Vi står ett gäng på 5-6killar och låtsas misshandla en som ligger i mitten, tex när bussen kommer, Bara för att se hur de ska regagera, nån gång stannade en bil och då ställde sig alla och skrattade och sprang utav bara fan.

    12-13  years old, me and a group of 5-6 boys stood around and pretedned to assault one in the middle, we did  this when the bus arrived, just to see the reaction, at some point a car stopped, and we just laughed and ran away.


    Post ID 00067

    Author: Damericus

    Kastade snöboll på en gammal gubbes hus, jättekul tyckte vi. Ända tills han kom ut och kastade tillbaks. Inte fan visste vi att han var en gammal handbolls spelare! Har aldrig fått så ont av snöbollar förut.

    Me and a some friends decided to throw snowballs at an old man's house, we thought it was hillarious, untill the old man came out and threw snowballs back at us!

    We had no idea that he was an old handball player, I have never had snowballs hurt that much before.


    Post ID 00068

    Author: brobban

    Sen på hemkunskapen i 9:an så fjutta en kompis eld på bordsduken, vår lärare får panik och bara vrålar som en besatt medans en annan kompis resolut slår handflatan i duken tills det slocknar.

    During one lesson in home economics in year 9 (about 15 years old) a friend set the tablecloth on fire, our teacher panics and just starts shouting while another friend puts out the fire by repeatedly smacking the tablecloth with the palm of his hand.

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