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A creator troubleshoots OBS audio and camera issues, shows off his smart-home lighting setup in Cyprus, and discusses recent travels to China including the Great Wall. An API outage briefly panics him before he realizes it's an external server problem.
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Auf der 3. Okay, there we go. Now it works. Now it works. Had some, had some issue, had some issue with the camera. OBS is a bit weird sometimes. Uh, it likes to not like it, it sometimes forgets like the cameras or the iPhones. Um, So I don't know, don't know what that issue was. Just had to delete it and add it again, and now it works again. Hell yeah, those are, those are pretty nice. I just got them. Like, um, Cyprus, like, one of the worst things, which sounds a bit, um, a bit like a, like a nice problem to have, uh, but one of the, one of the worst things is actually like delivery. Like everything takes a few weeks. Amazon, Amazon has to import from outside and everything. So like every delivery you do fully intentionally, like whenever you order something, because you know, ah yeah, that's going to take at least a week to get here. Not like in Germany, not like I'm used to next day or same day. Um, but yeah, I, I ordered those a while ago actually because I wanted something. Those are like blue light glasses. Because I wanted like some glasses for like, like in the evening, because obviously I switch like all the lights in the evening typically. I think you're already gone when I do that. I have— see that? That is like a little map on of my— like you see, I have a small apartment. That's how my apartment looks like. Quite small, but a nice garden outside. And you see how there's every single light on that map. Like, that took some time to create that whole thing, like to map it out like exactly. And it's actually like one-to-one, like same, same size of every, uh, of everything and same placement. So you see, for example, private office on the right with like the table and the lights right there. And they have all the lights. So if I click one of them on the map, for example, this small one there You see, it turns on. And I have the evening mode, which is everything red in the whole apartment. Um, I have to close all the, all the blinds and everything, otherwise it looks a bit weird from the outside if everything is red in here. Don't want to attract the wrong people. But no, um, yeah, the cool thing is like from the beginning on, I pretty much set up everything to be like pretty much smart home. Uh, but like all the screens, obviously at night are still like— obviously they all have blue light mode, but they don't— I, I don't like it, to be honest. Like, I don't like if my whole monitor is fully orange. I just prefer getting something like this, and it's really not, not that high quality, but as long as it doesn't hurt, right? Like, some, some really press into your head and it's— it hurts after a while, which is not good. But this, this one seems fine. I mean, it looks, it looks cool as well. I like the way it looks as well. And that's like a lot nicer, and everything looks a lot nicer as well. Like, if I look outside, the world just looks 10 times happier. Um, but yeah, pretty, pretty happy about that. There's a bit of smears on it. Have you visited some of the, of the big, of the bigger cities in, in China? Or like, where, where have you mainly been? More in like the, like the nature, nature part? Because you mentioned like the Great Wall and everything. Um, or have you also visited some of like the super modern cities, um, and tried some of that stuff? Like, obviously some stuff you see are like those drone deliveries where you have like those, those points and the drones come down and you pick it up from there. That's quite cool. Did, did you try something like that? Ah, perfect. For some reason, switching between them suddenly looks terrible. See how it does like this little blink? Typically it should be like a smooth transition. But it just does boop for some reason. There we go, that's how it should look like. No, not, not like that. Okay, I think I know what the issue is. Shangdu is also kind of it. Oh, pandas! Oh, that is super cool. Yeah, that is, that is awesome. I chose the wrong thing. I enjoyed it so much. Oh yeah, yeah, I, I can imagine, I can imagine. That is super cool. Actually, let me add— you cannot hear the music when I talk, right? Let me add the music as well. That's, I think, a bit nicer if the music continues going. No music when I talk. I can make the music a bit quieter. Now it's off. I cannot, I cannot add it again. Oops. Obs is so bugged, man. Only issues with OBS. Okay, now I just have to find out how to make the music a bit quieter when I talk, because I feel like now we're kind of the same. Or is it— is it quite already? I, I can't tell. I have to watch the stream myself. Do I need, do I need a compressor, a limiter, a noise gate, noise suppression, or upward compressor in order to make it less loud? Gain. Okay. And the gain should be set to a negative value. How's that? Is that good? Is like the music quite enough, or is it, is it still— yeah, okay, now the music is gone. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we have a big error. One second. That's always the funniest part about anything technical, is when something fundamental just goes down and doesn't work anymore. This kind of stress, you know, uh, what's the best example there? Um, for example, and this is obviously huge, huge difference, like when Amazon server went down and like at the same time pretty much every single tool on the internet didn't work anymore because pretty much half of the internet is based on Amazon, right? And Amazon's AWS, so Amazon server, Amazon has their own servers and pretty much half the internet uses those servers to power everything. So when Amazon servers go down, pretty much half the internet goes down. Um, stuff like that, uh, that, that is always funny. That, that always, um, that always, uh, adds a bit of, um, like gives you a bit of a panic attack. But once you, once you find out the issue is not your fault, you're always relieved. That is someone else who has to take care of that. Um, yeah, in this case, the, the main tool the biggest, the biggest client uses, uh, just talk, talk to, talk to, uh, to my, my developer pretty much. Uh, the, the primary tool, the primary tool that our primary client uses, uh, their API. So what do I have here the whole time? What is that? Fuck. Okay, there we go. No, it's still there. My God. Okay, uh, be right back. The fuck, it's a bit— I should probably take the time in the morning to wash my face or something. Um, yeah, but basically their API went down. They're like the way for us to access it programmatically, so automatically. Um, that is down and that hasn't been working all night. Um, so yeah. Okay, tell me, tell me, is the— did you tell me already? No. Is the music fine? Like, when I talk now, is the music too loud and I'm too quiet? I should be normal, right? But is the music too loud? Should I make the music a bit quieter, or is it perfect? Awesome. Oh, perfect. Oh God, I shouldn't— I also shouldn't look that much at a monitor. Not, not very good for my eyes. Sometimes they just start burning like Crazy. Maybe that thing helps, but I want— I don't want to use that during, during the day. Blue light during the day is good. Yes, sir. Let's get back to work now. Hehehe. Hell yeah! Day 4. Day 4 of many. Oh damn, I didn't see your message. I hope it hasn't been like 20 minutes or something. Um, yeah, thanks for being here. Uh, thanks for being here again, and yeah, you have a good night. You have a good night. Was nice listening to some, some music again. I, I— it's, it's a different playlist this time, by the way. I— because yesterday and the day before I did the same, same one each time, so I wanted to mix it up. But they are all quite nice. It's, it's even hard to notice when you repeat the same one because they, they all like— it's all lo-fi, right? All sounds kind of the same, but all nice to listen to while doing some work. So yeah, it was, was nice having you. You have a good one. Bye-bye. Sehr cool. Wieso sieht das schon wieder so komisch aus?










