Yeah I’ve wondered about that exact thing. It sounds really dry but I’m not a doctor. It makes me feel a little bad for being driven nuts by it but also this dude’s noises are making me question my sanity. I didn’t even know the prior neighbors existed most of the time, so it has been an adjustment.
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maybe he has a hair stuck in his throat.
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Yeah, I feel judged haha.
Ironically it would probably be quieter if I chewed with my mouth open, the problem is I have impeccable manners and the sound gets amplified and projected out through my nose…
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Mastication is important for health, I’d cut them some slack.
Hahaha…my kids have that too! Well, I’m laughing now, but when I’m working at home and they stand next to me chewing (with closed mouth) I’m pretty quick to put on the headphones for some distracting music. They have good manners and can’t help it, so I try to just shift focus to something else.
Working for a cheapskate company blows. They took away our Teams licenses last year and forced us onto Slack and free Zoom, even though our client only uses Teams and we’re contractually obligated to use Teams with them. This means we have to join client meetings as guests and deal with a whole host of issues that comes with that. Today, Teams and my laptop decided not to communicate properly regarding microphone status. If I muted from my computer, it wouldn’t actually unmute me even though I displayed as unmuted in Teams. I had to leave and rejoin the meeting to speak.
Absolutely asinine. Everything worked perfectly before they pushed us off Teams. Free Zoom kicks us out after 40 minutes, and only 5 people on my 45-person team have been given proper licenses for it. So meetings are even more of a major headache than they already are.
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I realize the demo limits and client requirements make this all the worse for you, but Teams in my large company is just awful over Slack.
It’s all these hidden structures and noise whereas Slack was targeted and easier to logically maintain. I no longer really check email and don’t proactively monitor the things I used to for good and ill.
It just washes over me and I hate HATE creating a new thread for a single line.
I also hate that Teams is surveillance for productivity and keywords, even mentioning Slack in a private chat will get you an emailed threat as if you were trying to engage in something illicit unmonitored.
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I lowkey hate bookmarking topics because I never remember that I did it and then when they magically pop back up again, the little bookmark symbol next to the title always looks like a locked post when I’m scrolling through the list of the latest.
Gets me like 7 times out of 10.
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This may be the first time I’ve heard someone defend Teams!
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I found my old iPod that had a bunch (seriously, 500+) of really great sessions from Daytrotter, a defunct website that hosted live cuts from tons of indie bands. Of course, my daughter instantly requested that she get the iPod so she could wipe it and fill it with movie scores and soundtracks. I said sure, I just want to get my music off the iPod and into my computer. How hard could it be?
- Plug in iPod, but it doesn’t show up in Finder
- Open iTunes, but can’t drag and drop the songs from the hard drive.
- Maybe the iPod OS is out of date? It’s been on a shelf for seven years, so sure.
- Download 2GB update on computer. iPod wigs out halfway through and hard resets. Computer refuses to push update
- Go through iPod menu and get force an update
- “One eternity later…”
- Still can’t drag and drop music. Dammit
- Start furiously Googling. Maybe it needs to be in Disk Mode? Restart iPod in disk mode
- Still doesn’t show up as an External HD. Double dammit
- Google “how to mount iPod” through command line interface. I need a new utility through Git Lab? Okay. Fine. Register for Git Lab and pull the repo
- Invalid repository? Well, just fuck me then, I guess
- Okay, bite the bullet and download the sketchy app. What’s the worst that can happen? They steal my identity? I don’t even want to be me, so good luck.
- Start to transfer music. Okay, this is easy.
- What the fuck do you mean this is the trial version and I can only move fifty songs?!
- Well, if I uninstall and reinstall and transfer 50 songs at a time, it will only take 10 cycles. I wasn’t planning on doing much today.
- “You have exceeded your free transfers for the trial license.” Check and mate. Well played
- Screw it. How much does it cost? Spend 15 solid minutes swearing, then reconciling that it’s worth the $40 to get my music and do something nice for the kid. Fork over my info and start the data transfer
- What do you mean “Critically low hard drive space?!” Fine delete my old videos, I didn’t want them anyway
- Finish the download, set all imported songs to a single album so I can relive the music of my 20’s in one glorious playlist.
- Get in the car and open the album on my phone to start rocking the jams. The album is broken up by the 100+ artists into 100+ individual albums. “FUUUUUU”
SCENE
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Fucking Apple, fucking iPods and their draconian DRM bullshit, fuck 256 meg of memory costing an extra £150. Fuck their proprietary connectors too, and their updates that lock you out of things you’ve paid for, and fuck them for normalising the removal of headphone sockets.
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Rockbox is your friend and plays 24-bit FLACs if you want it to too.
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Yeah, I would absolutely recommend. I still keep mine around for Halloween horror “installations”.
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I was pretty surprised when I received unsolicited mixing advice in the current sounds thread, lol.
But happily, people like you around here have reassured me to not care about petty stuff like that and just go by that mantra from Killing in the Name of…
So I’m still optimistic on behalf of the creative spirit of the forum.
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It’s as much about the way that the unsolicited “advice” you received was phrased and given, and then how it turned into insulting you and another member that was the problem (from my perspective). It’s not the fucking “current mixes and how they sound on your studio monitors (please comment with your best advice)” thread then, is it?
If anyone seems too obnoxious, they very quickly get renamed to view 1 hidden reply.
Haven’t been in the mood to deal with it lately.
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Try not to let some weird shit someone said ruin your day!
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Sadly mine has an unfixable hard disc error that means it crashes eventually after a few hours or days of play, though it’s managed a few echoing hallway club ambient loop installations somehow. Those SD card replacements for the internal disc look interesting, but have to be ordered from Canada to Europe and I’m not sure I can be bothered (yet).
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The greater solipsism of thinking the world needs their opinions, really.
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