Where? I am not seeing any computers worth grabbing, even though I keep hearing people are dumping win 10 computers everywhere.

There are plenty of highways that almost never stop these days, while their peak hours are much louder than this. That was a huge frustration for me, this amount of noise (conversational decibels) is really not much and very hard to relate to by audio from a clip alone.

Think of all the people that live near freeways with international airports next to those. Airplanes coming and going all day, traffic constantly.

That’s why I wanted to see data and get a real distance from the data center, and an actual db reading. I just can’t do anything with this video.

Another example is wind turbines. Near constant noise https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=78QwBM_AD3s

How loud exactly is that? At least I have some sense of the distance. People are concerned about the frequencies of these too, although a Finnish study could find no correlation.

Its the frequencies you can’t here that are what you want to pay attention to.

Lots of people live in loud areas, just look at population centers overlayed with highways noise maps.

A noise is simply not that interesting by itself.

I’ll bury the hatchet: if the noise gets you interested to learn more then I suppose it isn’t pointless.

Yes it was pointless. There was nothing of interest in that video. There was nothing to take away that was useful or new.

And if you have been on the internet for the last few years, you don’t take some dude standing on the porch saying “shits loud” somewhere over there beyond the trees as being anything to make note of.

Come on. We can do better. Data is a worthwhile thing to have.

And let the door hit you on the way out.

You are really not looking for allies in this are you? You had no reason to come out swinging and being an asshole.

Taking a dB measurement in C weighting over some integration period

Yeah, the non filtering of the lower frequencies happens when done correctly, if I recall. I am curious what that actually is, and I am curious what is making those specific frequencies.

At a certain decibel range of ambient noise, humans become even more sensitive to the lower freqs. Being able to use that knowledge while taking measurements of my own is useful to me.

I would be interested to know the sound signature of gas turbines.

People like you are insufferable. He had a device and he found it worth using, I too would like to see that device. What the fuck is wrong with you that you need to say I am deaf and willingly ignorant because you don’t want to know more?

Damn, people like you make it hard to give a shit about bad things. I just wanted more information, data centers are noisy, I know that. I also have a decibel meter and want to know the db (or dba with calibration) and I am interested in the wave and frequencies. Because, you know, I want to know these things. I am curious about how these sounds are generated. The fans? The cooling system? A back up generator? How are the frequencies effecting people in various other industries?

Sorry you have no interest in the world, and a video of someone saying “its loud” pointing to some trees in the distance is all you the capacity you have for knowledge.

Fuck right off.

Not really data though. It could be anything.

Lots of people say lots of things. I was interested in the data. Particularly since he said he was collecting it!

Well that was pointless.

Was there supposed to be something on the “sound readings” meter? Can I see it?

No.

Is a webpage a “tool”?

I keep hearing from US friends that their best tool was getting involved and having Flock banned from their counties and cities.