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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • First off, do not buy a blue yeti, ever. They are microphones specifically marketed towards streamers with disposable income and are, all told, Not Great.

    Unfortunately, the fact you don’t want a microphone right in front of your mouth, your budget, and your needs are at odds, so you’ll have to compromise on one element. You’re already compromising on the needs, so that’s out, and you have 2 options:

    • a condenser microphone is the search term you’re looking for, but they require being quite close to your mouth if you want to avoid ambient noise. They generally require an external amplificator to connect to a PC, and that’s costly, but I think you could fit both in $100. A condenser mic that claims to not need an external amp is probably not really a condenser mic (though they exist, they’re expensive)

    • the alternative is a shotgun mic. These don’t need to be right in front of your mouth due to wave dynamics engineered to only capture sound in front of them. They’re frequently used on cameras, to capture the sound in front of it but not behind. They’re also really expensive and will definitely need external amplification.

    Unfortunately for you, this exact problem is of particular interest to pretty much only people who have “a Sony a7 is an amateur camera” money, so all solutions are quite expensive.














  • It seems your assessment is correct. You’d be surprised at the speeds you can get on poor wifi when you don’t care about latency. The average speed marching up with your download is a dead giveaway too. The fact that maximum over 5 minutes exceeds it is a bit weird, but it could be explained by some networking equipment in the middle (probably at your ISP if I was to guess) terminating MTUs for whatever reason. A common one is misconfiguring various solutions for capping internet speeds to subscribers, where your local MTU will be set correctly but the outgoing ones will be set to the maximum speed of the link.



  • Alright then I’ll do you one better:

    Google regularly abuses their market share dominance in browsers in order to push for changes to web standards that benefit them, such as their web integrity api (which would have prevented blocking ads). This is monopolistic behavior, and the largest ad company on the planet shouldn’t get to decide web standards.

    As a side note: both firefox and Samsung are paid handsomely (just like apple) to have Google as a default search engine. This also is monopolistic behavior, if you built a better product than them then you couldn’t outspend them to get to the same position.