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I’m a reddit refugee who always lurked. Hah I’m trying to be more active on Lemmy so imma take that as a compliment

Man I know, and I tried them. None of them were quite right, they didn’t accomplish what I wanted. Like the sound on the show is just a little different in real life. Part of it I think, is the treble (insert tribble joke)

It really all clicked when I fucked up and broke the speakers so it’s all coming from the subwoofer

Also no I didn’t solve that problem, I’m using an app called blackplayer, every ten hours it fades in and out for like a three second period. That’s on my to-do list to fix, but not a priority because it doesn’t bother me too much

Logitech z313 is what I got, I just checked my order history and it was like $57. I’m going to try to track down a link for the audio file I use. I have the file, but I don’t remember the source

Tinnitus is a constant whine. Other actual noise helps prevent having to constantly be thinking and feeling the whine because the “white noise” has your ear dealing with other things.

It isn’t the reason everyone listens to white noise but people with Tinnitus could help themselves go less crazy if they listen to white noise.

It was a joke.

You’re thinking of the brown NOTE, which has not been proven to actually exist.

It goes something like this:

• White noise is a mixture of all frequencies audible to humans, which sounds quite high pitched. It’s excellent for focus, against tinnitus and just for it not to be too quiet. Helps a lot of people sleep too.

• Pink noise is the same thing except tweaked to sound lower yet still “crisp”. It’s been shown to generally be even more effective for falling asleep than white noise.

• Brown noise is the same deal yet deeper still. It’s been shown to be effective against anxiety and, at least in my own anecdotal experience, against anxiety-induced insomnia.

On top of all these benefits, a combination of all three is what headphones and earbuds use for active noise canceling, an effect you can also achieve to some degree yourself.

It’s a lower frequency noise, some people enjoy it more. As a bad analogy, it’s a bit more like hearing a “waterfall” (brown noise) than “wind” (white noise)

Yes, it’s one of the Alarm Clock options

Not quite, that’s the mythical ‘brown note’.

Obligatory https://youtu.be/6ijI4HjTGkw

Does it include the 2000s corporate landline phone sound? *shudder*

It used to be bad on the battery, but then it became a super big focus and now it’s great.

If you’re the kind of person that plays on their phone to fall asleep, get a 10’ cable so it can be plugged in while you’re doing whatever you do before sleeping.

On one hand, yea, on the other, #worth. They were great overall - Sometimes you gotta take some losses and some wins.

Words have more than one meaning and your use of it is completely fine imo.

White noise can also mean:

meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter

I think literal noise is a good term for it.

Well, if you’re using it to isolate yourself, then I think noise is good for it. Like if you don’t want to hear the neighbors or roommates, noise is good because noise obstructs signals.

And more generally, noise refers to sounds that are not explicitly wanted or requested. Which is also what background is.

It’s a good question. I suppose it couldn’t hurt to instruct a chatbot to write a 20000 word essay on the question of what exactly the best term is, and then pipe that into the “say” command in mac os terminal and use my volume control scripts to make it sort of softly murmur in the background as I go to sleep tonight. I don’t think that would make me a crazy person. At least not right away.

Ambiance. I like that.

No. There is occasional some yelling, both from and at the commissioners, I don’t want anyone to be startled out of relaxation.

I would refer to this as background noise, yes.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

TNG night shift bridge.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Yea, sometimes. There’s usually enough other stuff going on it’s not a problem.

Hahaha yeah fair enough!

If you’re interested in another country, my city of Brisbane, Australia streams all its council meetings on YouTube, and we certainly have some…interesting debates. (I would certainly not hold it up as a good example of well-functioning democracy…)

Please, listen to the City Commission of Fort Scott, Kansas. It is so very dull.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the music from that

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Yeah but then you get a Darius Rucker song and have to start all over.

That reminds me of The Venture Bros. There’s a villain called White Noise who is basically anthropomorphic television static in a humanoid shape.

He was a white supremacist television repair man before his “accident”.

The writing on that show was so goddamn sharp.