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If you enjoy Linus's videos about storage servers, petabyte project, etc. I reckon you might enjoy this hour long talk about how Amazon operates a storage system a few orders of magnitude larger.

Also here's a better pic of the rig with my pachimari

I've only played rein once so far, but what he's got going for him now is that with the loss of a tank and the orisa rework there's way less shields in the game now. It's more unique. I thought he felt fine.

I’m pretty new to product photography but I’m actually quite happy with how these pics turned out

This program implements a form of Euclid's Algorithm to calculate the greatest common divisor of two numbers in TI BASIC. It works flawlessly on my TI-84+. 1→G 1→P Prompt A,B While G>0 G→P If A>B Then remainder(A,B)→A A→G Else remainder(B,A)→B B→G End Disp G End Disp "Found P" Disp P

My roommate has that mic, it does sound great. That being said, I'm looking for a sound card to use with my existing mic, not a new mic

Hmmm the 2i2 looks good but pricey, the UM2 looks promising price wise. Some places are listing it for about $40. Question: what's that mic input on both of them called? It's bigger and weird shaped and I'd definitely need an adapter from 3.5mm right? Only a little bit above my price point lol...

...plug what? The ModMic has two 3.5mm plugs.

So I've been having trouble with a constant whining sound in the background when using my ModMic plugged into my front panel mic input. This problem is made worse by the fact that it isn't loud enough at 100% volume so I have to turn on boost, which seems to boost the noise more than my voice. I know that people here don't really like the modmic that much but I've tested it plugged into my phone and a borrowed H4N and it sounds fine. I figured this was probably due to EM interference. My immediate solution was to dig this cheap USB sound card out of a bin in my closet. It solved the background noise issue but just sounds bad. My voice comes through loud and without whining but at significantly worse quality than what I can get by plugging into my phone. I'm looking for something better. I just want to stream and record gameplay without my voice sounding like total garbage. I read through this old forum post, but I wanted to check in before buying anything. The products recommended are: Just the word "sybadac." A quick google search tells me this is probably it. The amazon page I linked has a bunch of wildly different products on the same page, the "DAC with EQ" option at $20 seems like a good bet/what I'm looking for. Is "sybdac" something popular/notable enough that I should know what it means? Is this it? Does anyone have experience with the product linked? Creative Soundblaster Play 2. This also seems like it will do well and is only $25. Creative is a brand I've heard of. Will this sound good? A few cheap little no-name USB cards that are essentially the same as what I already have. One from the description of a video linked and another with the comment "This is the most I would spend on fixing the modmic any more is wasted money". I'm skeptical because the card I already have is just like these and it sounds bad. A cursory search implies that everyone is just rebadging audio chips from the same company that made the chip in mine. Also I don't know why spending more than $5 is a waste of money, I'm perfectly happy with the ModMic itself. My question is: Does anyone have experience with any of the products I've found? Does anyone have any other products to suggest? What is "sybdac?" What kind of specifications should I be looking for when shopping for sound inputs that don't sound like a 90's flip phone? Thanks!

I just got confirmation that NAU Surplus is selling Optiplex 780s(? the guy on the phone wasn't exactly sure) for $35/each this week. Definitely going that route.

This is true. In fact it's what I did with my own router at home. My only concern is sourcing appropriate machines in time. I'm going to my university's surplus store today to see if I can pick a few up. That's my plan A, but in the past my university in particular tended to stock higher end systems (last I was there they were selling 1st gen i7 desktops for $200). I worry they'll only have hardware that is overkill

A friend just suggested cutting up the wood with the whiteboard surface on it that they sell in bulk at Home Depot and just drilling standoffs into it so the MOBO would rest on the white board test bench style. It looks hackery and you can draw on it. I might do that.

So here's the situation: I have exactly a week to pull like a dozen routers out of my behind for a 700 person hackathon. I need them to be as cheap as possible, so I'm building them myself. I've priced out the cheapest possible hardware that will run pfsense (pcpartpicker link). The components aren't what important. I'm here because I need a way to house them. The absolute cheapest mATX cases are like #30, which is 1/4 of the price of the overall device! I'd like to try to build or mod my own cases. Because this is a hackathon, I thought it would be cool to go with the home-brew/techy/hacker aesthetic of exposed electronics and whatnot and I had two sort of working ideas: 1. I collect whatever old retro (think beige) computer cases and chop them up to show the inside, add lights, etc. I'm thinking it shouldn't be hard to get a few of these for free from the circles I run with. 2. Maybe laser cut wood or 3D print? Just a basic box with holes in the sides and maybe the hackathon logo cut on to one of the surfaces. The issue with both is that I have no idea what I'm doing and I need to be *fast*. Thoughts? How would you tackle this? Should I just cardboard box it? Am I in the wrong forum section?

Personally, I like the vive because I can set up my lighthouses wherever and forget about them. They just need power, no computer connection, so they don't use up space on my desk or precious USB ports. I just 3M Command Strip velcro them to my dorm walls so it's relatively easy to move the whole setup to my parents house or other places when I want to. I have not tried the oculus touch controllers, but I don't mind the vive controllers at all, and the Vive tracking system is more flexible for larger spaces. If you find yourself somewhere with a large open space, the ability to set up room scale at like shockingly large sizes is really cool. I set up a 4mx3m space in a room at my work at one point, and it was soooo awesome. Also keep in mind that while the vive package is more expensive than the rift, the touch controllers add cost. I have a vive, so obviously I'm biased towards it, but I the only reason I'd consider getting a rift is for the exclusive titles, but: 1. I dislike platform exclusives in general 2. ReVive works pretty well on stuff like Super Hot. Either way, competition is a good thing. I can't wait for the wireless transmitter and audio head strap HTC showed off at CES to come out.

Lol I know the feeling. I virtualized my primary rig, and only found out after the fact that because of a weird change in how Intel handles onboard audio and the SMBus in skylake I won't be able to vanilla pass the front panel headphone jack from my case to my vm. It's just one of those things that you can't have known about before purchase, and while it's more or less fine without, it feels bad man.