Onno (VK6FLAB)

It’s not real.

At one point, before we virtualised everything, I had a custom desk built in an L-shape. Instead of a desk and a return, I had the refurbishment team put together a desk with two desks instead. It gave me two sets of drawers, two computer cubby holes and the gap was too small for the horrible keyboard adjustable shelf that kept hitting your knees, so they replaced it with a fixed surface instead.

People laughed.

Colleagues sniggered.

Then they wanted one too.

Now I have a mobile lectern with an iMac clamped to it. Height adjustable, wheels, enough space for keyboard, trackpad and USB hub. I move around my office as the mood or light takes me.

So, when you use 40 or so programming languages, your employer needs to supply a mansion…

I’m okay with that.

Now, where is the boss?

Also, the word you’re looking for is: “headless”, as in, “headless install”

The traditional way is to use a serial console from another device.

I’m glad you defragged it, rather than fragged it…

It’s going to take some time. I’ve been there as have plenty of people who came to me for support when it happened to them.

While right now you’re thinking of it in terms of loss, you can also celebrate the lightness that comes from not having the data anymore.

There’s more…

What was the funniest thing you remember that was in there?

Now consider that you remember it. You don’t need to check, you remember the things that made that memory funny.

So, take a deep breath, add it to the list of stupid things you’ve done to date that didn’t kill you and then go and drink a glass of water and go for a walk.

This too will pass.

I don’t know, but I doubt that the frequency response of a mobile phone microphone is either linear or consistent across sound level.

I don’t even think you could compare two sounds with different frequencies, but I don’t know.

I suspect that calibration of any such thing would require a whole lot of infrastructure, consider for example the angle of the phone in relation to sound and the impact of holding the phone in how it affects vibration and noise damping.

You might be able to use a calibrated sound level meter and pair it via Bluetooth with your phone, but I think that’s going to be as close as you might get.

In the past I’ve tried a wired USB microphone, but the OS isn’t real-time, so the jitter was horrendous. A pi would give you a more consistent result.

Note that there is no calibration of audio hardware, so the level of usefulness of any such software would be strictly limited.

It turns out that some clients don’t show my name together with my account. My name is Onno.

Thank you, that’s not something I knew, the three clients I’ve used show both the account and the name.

Edit: This is weird, my current client (Connect) shows the name, but only for my account, not for any other account.

You’re going to kick yourself in a moment…

What is my name?

Edit: it seems that names are not always visible on Lemmy. If you’re playing at home, my name is Onno.

I just spotted an extraneous slash. I fixed my comment. Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

Take note of my username and then squint at it.

My first networked computer, on an AppleTalk network was called “()/)/)()”

It was an Apple Macintosh IIci.

It had that name for less than five minutes. That’s how long it took the network manager to find me and demand that I rename it to something that didn’t appear at the top of the Chooser, since that’s where the ADMIN NetWare server should be.

He suggested “ob1”, and that’s what it has been and continues to be for the past 32 years. My laptop became ob2.

Servers under my custody are called short words, generally four characters or less unless they’re disposable and they don’t get a name beyond what the installation process creates.

Edit: Oops, one too many slashes. Fixed.

OP said:

Maybe it does not have to be self hosted, but I have a sense the best solutions for this use case are.

I responded with the quickest, simplest, cheapest solution currently available. It provides all requested functionality and didn’t include a requirement that OP indicated was optional.

A Google sheet with a Google form to collect data.

Looks interesting. Has anyone used this?

For me it was Debian and a penguin tie.

That’s very interesting. Nothing like that exists in Australia as far as I know.

You can bring your own hardware and take your chances with support, or you can get a modem from the ISP when you sign up.

Depending on the situation, I’ve done both.