Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof...
by jdietrich on Saturday March 29, 2025 @07:30PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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> 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
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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
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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?
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.