Got simultaneous playing over the internet working...was surprised this was even possible with the latency most internet connections have.
Tech minor victory thread
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That's a bug (assumedly) in JamKazam. I couldn't find a way to fix it.
Music-wise, we try to keep the latency below 80 on the round trip, otherwise, it starts being obvious to the players and difficult to perform together. I'm assuming you meant ms here, since I'd love to have nanosecond latency
250ms latency might be fine for voip, but 1/4 of a second off the beat for tunes is murderous. even with the 80ms round trip, we both end up having to pretend we're 'pushing' the tune (playing slightly ahead of the beat) so that we record together well.
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When using PTP in things like Dante, which is a digital audio protocol I use a lot in devices for things like concert venues, we find that eveything's generally fine as long as we can keep the latency below 15ms. Of course, that's not really realistic for consumer internet, unfortunately.
I renewed a dormant subscription to my old VPN service over the weekend, only to find it no longer worked with any of the most popular overseas television services. I pled my case to customer support, and they were gracious enough to give me a full refund. I've since switched to a different service that works with BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 straight out of the box.
I've had the same code the last three cars running.
1) Someone stole the catalytic converter
2) Absurdly high mileage before I even bought the car
3) Low miles BUT previous owner obviously did not know Jack shit about cars and probably considered them disposable
--Patrick
Reminds of the CO detector that the builders plastered into a wall whey they built this house in 2013. You're supposed to change the batteries
I got fed up with my keyboard occasionally missing keys and finally got myself a properly nerdy gaming keyboard. I keep fat fingering things now because I'm not used to the extra buttons on the left, but it's nice. I haven't gamed with it yet, but I'm not ashamed to admit that it fills me with glee when the lights on my mouse, keyboard and headphones all pulse together. If only the kid who was obsessed with Tron could see me now all lit.
I know, right?
That place I said was selling 580's way overpriced at $300? They upped it to $450...but now that's actually a good deal!
--Patrick
What country are you from again? Because prices are very, very weird right now.
Newegg has the 3070 for $500. Continuously out of stock, of course, but still.
The cheapest I've found in Germany - also out of stock, BTW - is over €900. That's literally double.
With current ticket prices, we're approaching the point where buying it in the US, and just flying there and back to get it, is cheaper than buying here.
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has to be NVidia due to my need to play physical media in HD/2K/4K. I have had issues getting amd/ati products to do a HDCP handshake correctly
Bit the bullet on upgrading my work headphones, the current ones are pushing 5 years and looking+feeling pretty beat up (they're worn 30-45 hours weekly, and under normal circumstances travel with me). I should be getting these Shure A50 (on sale) mid-next week. Looking forward to owning something with active noise cancellation.
Also picked up ER2SE earbuds (also on sale) for home+phone listening. I have a very cheap and old SportaPro headset, and want to see if IEMs are up my alley.
Also picked up ER2SE earbuds (also on sale) for home+phone listening. I have a very cheap and old SportaPro headset, and want to see if IEMs are up my alley.
At least it's not a Windows Update!
(not aimed at you or anyone in particular - I'm just always amused when people hate on Windows updates blocking their machine for an hour but then happily say they were messing with whatever distro and spent a whole night getting things back to where they were or similar. I'm definitely not a MS fanboy or anti-Linux)
The difference is when a Linux distro is updating packages, the rest of the system is still useable. Windows you get that interminable "Windows is updating. Do not turn off your computer," and all you can do is stare at it.
Hell, I updated the core OS on my (FreeBSD-based) NAS a couple nights ago, and it was still running right up until it was like, "Ok all done installing just need to reboot a sec to refresh."
--Patrick