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Could, but then I lose portability like with mounting it in my laptop stand.

Everyone here seems to want to solve everything but the actual abstraction of wanting to know a way to calculate a thin liner material to add to the portable box that is not reliant solely on empirical brute force.

If someone else asked, I'd be saying the same things. It is easy to assume people can replace such knowledge with empirical testing and observations, but when the physical efforts become harder, working smarter has value to me.

Pain is due to neck and back. So the root of the problem is the weight of my head, and why I'm stuck in bed in the first place. I have some noise canceling headphones already, but between the weight and positional constraints they cause they are an issue. It isn't a real problem because I usually do not leave the thing on or plugged in. I have been doing so lately because I have needed to test a lot of AI models with Emacs looking for the most capable, with thinking and function calling, and the largest available context, along with others that can be switched in an agentic system and are more capable and potentially specialized with my own fine tuning.

I should just get another larger NVME drive, but purchasing anything right now sounds stupid.

But is there a direct rule of thumb (or more) about the relationship between density, thickness, and frequency?

If I play a sound from a driver on my left, and the noise is from a device on my right. I believe they will not cancel out and I will hear two noises on each side of my head. My head will act like a shadow to the wave front as it propagates right? I suppose one could build a device to play the sound at the drive, but that is a bulky solution.

I was asking about passive damping here, not that I mind the tangent.

I don't think so. The thing is on my laptop bed stand. So it is always in arm's reach and I don't have a controlled environment because I move around within the room. I was thinking more like some kind of specific sound damping material to line the interior of the box for the external HD but the thing is small.

Two things here, the cover could be lined with something thin. Or I could shove it inside the box I made originally for my laptop PSU brick but had to mount the latest one underneath (mess of a cord visible on the other side of the HD). I'd need to do the new PSU plug differently to get the HD all the way into that box. Still all I can do is brute force an empirical damping solution. I can't even ballpark about material properties and sound in this space. It would be a handy abstract skill.

Indirectly too I think. I use wiki much more often as my default search location now. Search engines are garbage and often override or ignore booleans. The results that are garbage are shilled.

Rode a bike to see how far I could go. My longest day was around the Santa Ana mountains between Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. I've ridden all the way around those mountains. My computer went dead at 176 miles but the trip was around 220.

I moved 2k miles across the country one time because of my highschool sweetheart, just to give it a chance. She was not acceptable to my folks for stupid cultist religion reasons.

Not really in the not allowed section, but I had this hotrod camaro that was my little project. I had to move back across country and leave it with a friend. It needed a motor. I worked for a machine shop, built a motor, got a cheap car, tossed the motor in the passenger seat and drove 2k miles. Put the new motor in and sorted out all the kinks on the 2k mile drive back home. I definitely couldn't do something like that as a kid

I have existed totally ad free for a few years now. I use a whitelist DNS filter.

False premise. I default to doing anything within my power for any stranger I can. I only prejudice against those that give me reason. To me, that is part of being an honest person. I can't fix everyone else, but I can fix me. I will probably die homeless on the street on a cold rainy night eventually. But you know what, when the stranger was out in front of my house last week with a broken chain on his bicycle. I fixed it on the spot. Likewise if I see you having trouble beside the bike trail with a flat or issue, I'll stop and help. When my neighbor's water main broke, I was the first person at the street with a wrench to shut off the water even when it couldn't affect me. If I see a homeless person that is hungry I try my best to get them something to eat or a few dollars to help. When I made really good money a long time ago, I gave a random homeless person a hundred bucks around once a month. I haven't made a significant dent in the world. It makes me feel a little better to do everything I can when opportunity presents itself. Anything less is foolishness IMO. You are only ever one bad day away from being in the exact same position as the most destitute and unfortunate person you encounter no matter how good your life appears. The magnitude of events varies but there is such a scenario for everyone alive even if they are too dumb to see how such a thing is possible.

There is a lot of potential for generating on the fly skins and specs. Everyone seems to want to do stupid flashy junk, but a well configured agentic setup could easily get constrained in ways that alter geometry and interactions more dynamically than the broad scope nonsense I keep seeing.

Trump looks strange without hair over the forehead, monochrome, and with a beard right? Image below in another reply. Terrorist is a terrorist. I was too lazy to change the rest, but I took out the main offensive stuff, like what bin Laden was wanted for in this original poster from '99. There is nothing bigoted about it whatsoever; quite the opposite really, to the point I gotta ask what you're going on about here? The man just hurt millions of families, and the poorest Americans likely leading to the deaths of tens of thousands in a conservative estimate. Bin Laden killed FAR FAR fewer Americans and others abroad.