??? Why the hell did my link get turned into a link back to Fedia lmao

SO comments are already CC-BY licensed (granted not -NC licensed, but still), but it doesn’t seem to have helped much.

Archive Options Failing

This one worked for me, useful if wanting to share the story elsewhere:

https://archive.is/20231224184755/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68

This review brings up an interesting point, where they measured that at same-dB the fan sounds better because it has greatly reduced high-frequency noise (the second half of the review focuses a lot on this). I’d be interested in a [quantitative] comparison using something like sone.

Edit: NON-normalized spectrum analysis in Audacity (non-linear) and Spek (linear) using the +20dB audio clips: https://files.catbox.moe/h0hlvk.webp

Same thing but RMS normalized to -20dB: https://files.catbox.moe/38ugao.webp

These (particularly the normalized one) make it seem like the difference isn’t high frequency response (if anything the Metal has more lol), but instead reduced tonality.