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Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by da_chicken on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:55PM (#43519066)
This is a pretty common problem with all true workstation level computer systems. It's like taking a rack from a data center and putting it in your office. You've got a dozen or more spindles and fans spinning. I've seen systems with $200,000 worth of RAM in them, but that was back when 256 GB of RAM was $100k. And, yeah, they had 15k SAS drives. If you think servers are expensive, you've not priced workstations.

Every time I've seen higher end workstations, the actual workstation itself was always in a separate room, and there's been some kind of remote KVM solution used. The workstation was always very noisy and generated a lot of heat. It's also just... a lot of money to shove under a desk where people kick it all afternoon.

Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by jdietrich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @07:30PM (#43519709)
A number of manufacturers offer soundproof 19" rack enclosures, but they are heavy, bulky and not especially cheap.

https://www.rackmountsolutions.net/24u-ucoustic-soundproof-s...

Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by geocar on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:15PM (#43519929)
Not exactly sure how that compares, but I bought one of these quite hopefully: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product-range/203414049-netshelter... and "soundproof" means my home office doesn't sound like sitting on a subway train, and more like the inside of an airport.
Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by jiveturkey on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:22PM (#43519961)
I have one of these, they are quite effective.
Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by geocar on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:52PM (#43520139)
Still a long way from what I'd call soundproof.
Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by jiveturkey on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:50AM (#43531542)
Indeed. But the equipment inside has fans and must move air around. The enclosure is most effective at high frequency noise and so what's left is much more tolerable (and reduced). I suppose you'd need to go to liquid cooled to do better? Or are you aware of a more effective enclosure?
Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by geocar on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:35AM (#43544701)
> you'd need to go to liquid cooled to do better?

I'm afraid of trying something really invasive like liquid because I live in Portugal and getting weird stuff takes forever.

> Or are you aware of a more effective enclosure?

No I don't really: I have some heavy blankets hanging which helps a bit. My musician friend told me I should glue some egg cartons to the blankets, so I'm going to try that soon.

Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by nativeit on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:59PM (#43519508)
I do I.T. for a small broadcast studio (it's actually a sports venue, but they have their own production and broadcast studio), and it is indeed still very much like this. We have rack-mounted workstations alongside all the servers and networking, with KVMs to the next room where the production is handled. This was all spec'd and built out in 2019.
Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by MasterScrat on Sunday March 30, 2025 @10:24AM (#43524457)
By KVM, do you mean actual cables for keyboard, video and mouse going from the workstations to the user, or some kind of remote desktop tools?