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Only slightly off topic but I sincerely wish Noctua was everywhere else in my life. Like I’d love for them to make my HVAC system quieter. Or table fans. Or c
by atonse 1y ago
Only slightly off topic but I sincerely wish Noctua was everywhere else in my life.
Like I’d love for them to make my HVAC system quieter.
Or table fans. Or car air conditioners.
Just about every fan in my life would be better if Noctua redesigned it.
They’d be like Dolby, but for making LESS noise.
- samplatt 1y agoMy brother's car/camping fridge's compressor fan died. He replaced it with a Noctua. It's 1/3rd the volume and actually has slightly MORE airlow than the 20c 90mm fan that was ziptied to it from the factory.
- atonse 1y agoAmazing. So even if Noctua themselves just made larger general purpose fans, we can add them to places ourselves.
- sneak 1y agoI bought some custom molded earplugs recently and I got 3 sets - two are completely sealed off and are very nice for when I wish for peace and quiet and don’t need to hear or speak. I also use noise canceling mode on my airpods pro quite often. The advantage is that it works even when I’m in an environment I can’t control, like an airport or waiting room.
- darkamaul 1y agoWe tolerate way too much noise in our daily lives, especially in dense cities. It’s a hidden tax on our health. Constant low-level noise has been linked to stress, sleep disruption, and even cardiovascular issues. What bothers me is that we only regulate the loudest offenders (cars, motorcycles, construction), while the residual of everything else is just accepted as background. But that background adds up. I wish we had stricter regulations not only for peak noise but also for the residual noise emitted by everyday objects. If reducing a few decibels here and there became a design goal across the board, the cumulative effect on quality of life in cities would be enormous.
- wildrhythms 1y agoThis is why I wear earplugs when I commute on the NYC subway which is notoriously loud. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2707461/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2707461/
- port11 1y agoSome years ago I had my first panic attack at work. Walking home was an atrocity; and since then I'm much more aware of how noisy a city can be. Now I have a kid I often walk around. You're even more sensitive to city noises when you're desperately trying to keep your baby asleep! The two big offenders where we live are a) drunk students partying outside; b) motorcycles (which are somehow allowed to be this noisy?). It's a pedestrian-focused city mostly car-free, but motorcycles and young drunkards more than compensate. Another source of annoyance are the beeps and boops that every household appliance thinks they need to have. The microwave's song when it finishes, the water boiler's super loud beep, the washing machine's stupid jingle at start and end of a cycle, etc.
- iknowstuff 1y agoGoing to Shanghai (FFC) and seeing a bus driver flashing headlights instead of honking at a green light laggard was eye opening. All the electric cars and mopeds too of course. Coming back to NYC afterwards was wild. The fucking food stand generators. AC vents. The cars. The buses.
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- Dennip 1y agoYou dont even notice it at first, but when I started wearing airpods pro at work, the NOISE of the aircon etc when you have to take them out is wild.
- lostlogin 1y agoCould someone please fix hard drives. I’ve relegated the Synology to the basement. I can still hear it grinding at night.
- myself248 1y agoIt's probably coupling the vibration into whatever shelf it's sitting on, which then transduces it to the air. Set the unit on some foam, it helps a lot.
- wkjagt 1y agoI found that putting them on something soft helps a lot. It seems to be mostly vibrations that are transferred to whatever it's sitting on.
- rollcat 1y agoTry styrofoam, a couple layers of soft packaging wrap, thick cloth, etc. My other hack is WOL + auto-suspend for my NAS. Wakes up for backup jobs, goes back to sleep when done (and there are no SSH sessions left open). Very hacky but works flawlessly. (Usually.)
- adrian_b 1y agoThere are special brackets for mounting HDDs, where there are rubber rings interposed between the mounting screws and the bracket, in order to prevent the transmission of the HDD vibrations to the chassis, which usually greatly amplifies the HDD noise. With such brackets the noise is usually reduced a lot. There are some computer cases that are advertised as silent cases and which include such brackets by default (e.g. from Fractal Design).
- OneOffAsk 1y agoSomeone did, but they're still slightly more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
- akimbostrawman 1y ago