u/Richardcavell

Hi. I’m a part of Blackpool Improv Group, which has 5 players. We intend to perform at venues that will need voice amplification.

Ideally we’d have a wireless headset/lavalier mic for each of us, but that is prohibitively expensive and ensures that every cough is amplified and sent to the audience. We could perform with handheld wired mics, but then we’ll have cables to step over and occupies one of your hands.

What have people here found works for them?

I’m on Windows 11. I previously used Edge on iPad, which I have since deleted. I am signed in to my Microsoft account. Everything is fully updated. I have repaired Edge using Windows Settings.

Every time I modify my favorites bar, old items reappear. They won’t stay deleted.

I have followed everything on the Internet that I can find plus everything that CoPilot can think of. I’m so close to giving up and switching browsers. Does anyone have a foolproof method of stopping this?

I have a strong interest in firearms. But the most experience I have in firing them is in computer games. I live in the UK.

If it’s possible, I’d like to visit a gun range while on holiday in another country and ask to borrow or rent certain iconic firearms, just so that I can have the experience of firing them. I speak English, so the USA seems like a good starting point. Where in the US can a tourist rent and fire weapons with minimal red tape?

Hi. I'm playing L4D1. When I first started playing, every time I kill a zombie their body would freeze, go pitch-black and be filled with shimmering short white lines that were roughly vertical before disappearing. Now something has changed - when I shoot a zombie there's blood and gibs and missing limbs and so on.

I haven't changed any command line options etc.

What explains why the zombies were initially disappearing with a shimmer effect? How do I get it back?

Hi everyone. I have a mid-range gaming PC with a 1 terabyte internal SSD. I'm using Veeam Free Agent for Windows. I want to do daily backups and keep as many past days as possible. I own an external 1 terabyte hard disk. A full filesystem backup (rounded up) comes to about 200 gigabytes, and daily incremental backup files come to about 20 gigabytes (rounded up) each. How many days should I aim to keep? What settings do I need in the Advanced section to make sure my hard disk always has space? I want this to be set-and-forget.

Hi everyone. My name is Richard Cavell. I have a reddit.com username and password, and that logs me into u/Richardcavell. I have recently transferred all my passwords to a new password manager.

A few days ago I logged into reddit by clicking on my password manager. My password manager decided to log into reddit using Google instead of using my Reddit password (I have no idea why). I am now posting as u/Live-Hospital9198/. What the hell? How do I stop this?

Does anyone know any way of buying a single (one-machine, one-person) license to use Veeam?

I rather like the software, and I want to do more than one backup job on my machine. I'm happy to pay for the privilege, but I don't need a pack of 5. Also, I don't have a business email address no matter how many times Veeam asks me for one.

I am a standup and improv comedian. I usually perform in really poor lighting (such as pubs), with a handheld microphone amplified through a mixing desk into two speakers at the front of the stage that face the audience. I want to record these performances (both video and audio).

I have tried recording video on my Samsung Galaxy phone from the audience area. The audio (recorded by my phone after coming out of the speakers and travelling through the air, mixed with audience chatter) is completely unintelligible. I must have a better system of recording audio.

Also, the images are grainy. What I really want is a proper video camera that can handle low light conditions. But if a decent camera would be too expensive, I could learn to live with the poor images.

Do I need to buy an audio recording device that takes XLR/phono input and give it to the audio mixing operator before my performance? Do I wear a lapel mic and connect it to a recording device that I keep in my pocket? Do I buy a cheap video camera that is rated for low light?

Recording the audio/video separately and syncing them later is no problem. I know how to do that.

I'm happy to spend £500.

Richard

I am a standup and improv comedian. I usually perform in really poor lighting (such as pubs), with a handheld microphone amplified through a mixing desk into two speakers at the front of the stage that face the audience. I want to record these performances (both video and audio).

I have tried recording video on my Samsung Galaxy phone from the audience area. The audio (recorded by my phone after coming out of the speakers and travelling through the air, mixed with audience chatter) is completely unintelligible. I must have a better system of recording audio.

Also, the images are grainy. What I really want is a proper video camera that can handle low light conditions. But if a decent camera would be too expensive, I could learn to live with the poor images.

Do I need to buy an audio recording device that takes XLR/phono input and give it to the audio mixing operator before my performance? Do I wear a lapel mic and connect it to a recording device that I keep in my pocket? Do I buy a cheap video camera that is rated for low light?

Recording the audio/video separately and syncing them later is no problem. I know how to do that.

I'm happy to spend £500.

Richard

I have a Windows 11 machine. I want to create a database which contains records sorted by date. For each date, I will have a text file, and a video that could be 1 or 2 gigabytes. The resulting file will be in the order of a terabyte. I am the only person who will ever use this database. Which free or cheap software do I need to create and use this database?