NinJake

I agree, I don't think anyone will be able to help them besides Google themselves unfortunately.

Yeah, with 50k followers, they should be talking to YT

Shouldn't they be asking Youtube?

They need to contact Google support, there's nothing anyone of us can do about that.

Just headphones aren't the solution. And there is no "single best".
 
If you want the lowest latency, using the onboard audio chip (usually Realtek and that means a modern Realtek like the 1200 series or newer) is recommended.
Suppose you want the best audio experience (but a bit higher latency) with perhaps hard-to-drive headphones/IEM-s (high impedance or low sound-to-noise ratio or both). In that case, a decent DAC AMP unit or a stack (separate AMP and DAC one-on the other) is recommended, and eventually a good dongle DAC with inbuilt AMP.
 
Then you have to decide if you want open-back or closed-back headphones. or IEMs. or both to interchange.
In-ear monitors (IEM-s) sit between open and closed-back headphones when it comes to sound, but they do not cause "gamer hair" since there's no part that would sit on top of the head and push your hair down.
 
Soundwise, you want gear that doesn't limit you as the player and lets you hear all the stuff you're supposed to hear.
And that's for headphones - Sennheiser HD 560S, HD 490 Pro,  Fiio JT1, Beyerdynamic DT 990, DT 900 Pro X, 1990, HarmonycDyne Zeus
For IEMs models like - QKZ x HBB, Truthear Nova, Moondrop Lan, Truthear Crinacle Zero, Simgot EM6L or better.
Check Fresh Reviews for the reviews and comparisons, he does for Apex, Valorant, CoD, and RS6.
 
As for the AMP&DAC, I'd say you'd be fine with an Akliam PD4, Truthear Shio, Moondrop Dawn Pro, or something similar.

Firefox doesn't support HDR at all, which is the main reason why I don't use it.
 
I don't know why you're so fixated on PCI-P3 color space coverage as your indicator of HDR quality. A monitor with 85% coverage and a good local dimming backlight will have better HDR than a monitor with 99% coverage and no local dimming.
 
Decent HDR monitors can be had for $280 nowadays, but it's only one specific model from AOC so far. All the other monitors that market HDR in this price range don't offer any real HDR capabilities.

144p60 HDR. What an experience.

What about speaker something like 2 of these?
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also for this type of speakers do you need an amp that can supply 200W per chanel or how is that... (sorry if its a stupid question im new)

Cool clouds, cool godrays, not in love for the foreground. Seems to me you have some decent rocky outcrops on the right? I feel like perhaps if the composition was adjusted and you boost the shadows you could have a stunner of a photo. Or maybe lean into the clouds more with a longer lens/tighter crop.
 

Ahh this ritual.
Thanks maybe Il try to reset my PC and install all drivers new and do this ritual

Ritual here 😉
https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/how-to-set-up-your-system-with-a-new-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-or/ba-p/589464

did you mean to say shouldn't?

Screw the PSU into the case to make good contact, plug PSU into wall socket but dont switch on, this will make a physical path for static buildup to flow through. Then attach wrist strap (to wrist at one end obvs 😋) to anywhere on the case, this will ground you and the case and keep you static free, but this shouldn't fry any components, Linus did a video with Electroboom recently where they actively tried to destroy components with shocks much stronger than static shocks and found it VERY hard to
 
EDIT: oh true, what @Average Nerd said about exposed ground, always forget other countries dont also have this

Oof. At least they encrypted it, I guess?
 
Also looks like - for the birth dates at least - the encrypted data wasn't salted. The dataset has birth dates in an encrypted state. It includes a separate file (rainbow table) for birthdays which just includes every possible birth date combination and its encrypted value. It's possible to compare the encrypted value from the dataset to the table of birth dates to get the true value.

 
I'm actually surprised that birth dates were encrypted at all.
 
2021 was when an attempt was made to sell data stolen from AT&T. Apparently this data has been confirmed by AT&T to be from 2019 and include data on current and former customers from 2019 and prior.
 
If it was 2019 then the attacker would have generated every possible birth date combination since 1900 (1900 - 2019 = 119 years).
I wonder if that is also the same for the SSNs, since that also includes a separate table for decrypting the values. If SSNs weren't salted and they had the encryption key they could have just generated a table of every possible social security number and their encrypted value.

Oh that's what was extra fun. The passcode is to identify you as the authorized user for the account after other verification methods. However since I was logged in the rep just asked what I wanted to update it to and set it from there for my internet account. I think it's different if you have a wireless line with AT&T but it's still stupid that it was that easy to update it. They are supposed to, from what I've read have you verify other information since the automated system requires your last 4 digits of the SSN and your billing zip but yah, I would say they fail on keeping that part secure as well 🙂
 
You can't even have a recovery phone number if you do not have a wireless number with AT&T, you can only do email which is pretty dumb in itself.

I got the email the other day, they said only my passcode was impacted but we'll see if that's really the case. The email said they would follow up more in the coming days with more information.
As a side note, for anyone else who had their passcode reset as a part of this, you cannot use the online tools to reset your passcode. It will say your information is incorrect so I had to go through customer service to get it changed. The rep I spoke to said it was a system issue they're working on fixing. Fun times 🙂

Summary
-This is Not an April Fools Joke-
 
AT&T, one of the Big Three Cellular Network providers as well as internet to millions of Americans, announced that a dark web database was released containing 7.3M active AT&T users and 65M inactive users. Most concerning is the leak of Social Security numbers and dates of birth. 
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
First AT&T had the major service outage, and now a massive breach of personal data. While the data is speculated to be from 2021, it is unknown how far back the data extends, so customers who switched form AT&T back in 2018 (Hi, hello, its me) could still be affected. Admittedly I was part of a family plan so my SSN should be safe(r).
 
As a reminder, using both a 2FA app like Google Authenticator as well as a Password manager are some of the best ways you can protect yourself in the digital world we now live in, which feels almost inevitable that our data will be at some point compromised. 
 
Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/att-data-breach-leaked-millions-customers-information-online-108697485
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/tech/att-data-leak/index.html
https://gizmodo.com/att-data-breach-hack-73-million-current-old-customers-1851378110

We need more god rays. 🙂

I think that's a really good example of the value of a good foreground, perhaps taken to the extreme, as I think the "foreground" is almost the subject of the photo in that it is the main source of unique contribution, which makes the visual appeal even more unique.
 
 

Lets revive this thread...

The answer here is FLAC. There's no getting around it, FLAC is what anyone should be using for locally stored audio files (ignoring streaming behemoths like Spotify, Apple Music, etc). I have a 512GB microSD card in my smartphone that I put all my music on. I DJ, and I record my mixes in AIFF (only because that's what the software records in) which I then convert to FLAC. The large majority of my source files for DJ'ing are FLAC, while some are still 320kpbs mp3 (depends on what the producer publishes; I get FLAC when I can, some I can only get mp3 but as long as it's 192kbps or better, it's fine). I'm using 227GB for all the music on my phone (my DJ library is about 1.5TB..it's everything I've collected digitally since pretty much high school, re-ripping/replacing lower quality files when I could). There's no need to transcode to a compressed file type when mp3 works just fine if it needs to be compressed. Not to mention compatibility with DJ software/hardware. And if I have FLAC source files why bother converting to a compressed format when storage space is so cheap now? Let's say I did transcode everything to OGG, I'd free up ~50GB? My 512GB microSD is only ~50% full as it is..and that's including all of the photos/videos and other junk on there besides my music. It just doesn't make sense why I'd take the time to do that.

Music compression in general has three uses, one defunct, two questionable in 2024.
Originally it was for the dawn of flash media and portable flash media based music players. When your smartmedia card is 64mb, and an uncompressed CD album is 700mb, you make some sacrifices.
As time went on and flash storage got far cheaper, it makes less sense. You can get 256gb micro sd cards these days for dirt cheap and hold entire uncompressed libraries for less than the cost of one album.
 
Then comes online retailers. MP3’s hit two important features for them, it’s a recognizable format for the consumer and its size means it stores with less space, and requires less download time. For a site selling music, it’s far more economical for them to sell MP3’s as they don’t take up much server space or bandwidth/network capacity.
 
And for streaming, compressed formats are just a bandwidth concern. It’s beneficial for both the supplier and the consumer to reduce network usage. Save mobile data for people with finite data, reduce the effects of limited connectivity. On the suppliers end it’s cheaper to run as well, much like retailers.
 
However this still ties into the same sentiment about downloaded media. Storage is cheap and the internet is fast. Anything less than a 320kbps mp3 in my eyes is not good enough. 320k MP3’s are already tiny, if someone is going lower than that, it’s just distasteful to the consumer. There is an advantage cutting down on average file size by 3/4, but to try and scrape away individual megabytes of storage space and network usage is insane penny pinching.
And for that reason, media compression at this level is unimportant. I don’t care if a 64kbps ogg sounds better than a 128kbps mp3, both of those files sound like utter dog shit.
Though I am an outlier, I don’t have $80 headphones and I don’t stream any music. I have $1000 iems and an amp and a large music library of cd quality flacs at minimum with a bunch of stuff in higher resolution. I couldn’t care about different music compression formats if I tried. A 24kbps ogg doesn’t even play on my hardware because it’s programmed to play a voice recording saying “bruh” on repeat if anything less than a 44.1khz 16 bit flac is played.
 
Its more about the consumer treatment than anything. Any music compression is bad for the consumer because it shows the platform is trying to cost cut so severely that they would impact the quality of the art they present to save fractions of a fractions of a penny.

Managed to solve the issue by reviving through another macbook.  This: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108900

I mean the best practice is to get a job really. Like a it consultancy firm that sends you to many different projects. Gonna get WAAAAAYYYYYYYYY more experience than doing home lab. Also free hardware often.
 
As far as homelab stuff. Buy a couple random old desktops/workstations avoid servers due to extreme noise. Or if you have a room that can be earpiercingly loud get some old random server.
 
Else well build a simulated enviroment yourself.
 
But really just go get a it job you'll simply learn more on the job, get experience AND get paid!
 
Its how I started 5 years ago and I'm doing quite well. Also make sure to be good at bullshitting 😛

Something like the Mackie ProFX v3+ series mixer would allow you to route and have independent control over all your audio routing, and can also have simultaneous headphone/speaker usage without the need of a switcher. You will need a good amount of cables that route each device back to the mixer, and ensure your speakers support analog inputs.