How To Fix Google Nest Audio Crackle Pop Sound Problem
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Due to the cheap Japanese yen, I've been doing a lot of shopping recently. I decided to upgrade my aging Sony Google Assistant speaker to the latest Google Nest Audio.
Nice. Sounds good. Upgrade complete.
Wrong. I'm forever plagued with IT problems. I must've been cursed by some IT witch or something.
Every once in a while the Google Nest speaker would make a short click / crackle / pop sound while playing streaming audio. It happened most often with Spotify. At first I thought it must be a hardware problem with the speaker, but I noticed that it would only do it when playing Spotify or SomaFM. Youtube music and news podcasts never suffered from the dreaded pop.
So maybe it's a firmware problem. Well...damn...should I just return this thing?
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Ubuntu 24.04 Nginx Build Outline
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I re-built my LEMP web-server fresh on Ubuntu 24.04 and learned some things along the way. This is my base build outline mostly created for my own notes.
Polite but Direct Refusal in Japanese
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Japan is a culture of indirect communication. When I first started learning Japanese, my teachers never failed to stress this. The language has countless examples of indirect communication via subtle queues that you just have to discern and somehow figure out. Japanese culture values politeness in speech, so indirect is always considered far more polite than direct, especially when it comes to something like refusal.
For example...
Location Shoot Survival Kit
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As I do more and more Japan TV jobs, I've been compiling a list of things to bring to survive sometimes long shooting schedules. I call this my "Location Shoot Survival Kit."
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