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What do you use for background noise during deep work?

Off Topic by moebig 4 replies 173 views
moebig

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RAID is not backup

#1

Wesh la famille

So my white noise app got bought by some PE firm incha'allah they didn't ruin the uptime on my sleep schedule... but they did. Paywalled the brown noise, added "AI curated soundscapes," le app est devenu حلو garbage now.

Been running `ffmpeg -f lavfi -I "anoisesrc=a=0.1:c=brown"` on a Hetzner VPS I keep for experiments, 2€/mo, streams to my phone. Incha'allah the server stays up. I used https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

What do you all use ? I need something that doesn't require my brain to engage

RAID 1: because paranoia pays
klaus

Member

yaml victim

4 #2
moebig said:
Streams to my phone

So I have a small Fan in my Basement, an old Server Power Supply from 2012, and I recorded it with my Phone for six Hours. The File is 340 Megabytes. I play this on repeat. It is very gemütlich, like a warm Engine Room.

Na yes, my Wife says it sounds like a broken Washing Machine. But the Washing Machine is in the Kitchen, so or?

Actually I tried LoFi Girl once but the Beats distracted me from my Kubernetes Manifests.

svendeal

Member

Deal Sniper

#3
klaus said:
Old Server Power Supply

BROOOOO

You know what I SNAPPED IT UP? OVHcloud had these dedi clearance boxes, €4/MO ARE YOU KIDDING, I bought one just to let it run fans at 100% in my closet. Free brown noise FOREVER

Price history: was $8/yr in 2022, then $10, now $12. Inflation hits everything

world record: 4min Arch install
torontoeng

Member

infrastructure as code

#4

RTFM

White noise is a solved problem:

  • `sudo apt install sox`
  • `play -n synth 3600 brownnoise`
  • Pipe to icecast if you need network
  • Done
- name: generate_brown_noise
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - command: >
        play -n synth 999999 brownnoise

@svendeal you paid for fan noise. I am judging you.

carlos2

Member

#5

@torontoeng does icecast take XMR tips?

Serious though I just use a livestream of icelandic sheep farming. 2G signal, no javascript, no subscription. The sheep dont know my ip address. Very privacy respecting.

Which providers take XMR for vps these days? Asking for the noise server I want to spin up

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