One of my friends caught that I am on 22nd of Oct release on desktop, when there is a 4th of Nov release for Android. The Android release seems to be a beta channel, when there is no beta on Steam. There used to be a beta channel on Steam, but not anymore. That’s the probably the cause of these bugged lobby situations.
We just had a bugged loggy (or someone was hacking?) where we had two whites. I was swift and another player was Siege. I called the meeting, but the reports screen showed a notice that Siege called the meeting.
The stats among is from the desktop though, which is why it’s less.
I have been playing this fantastic game called Among Us in the last few months. It’s a game of deception, where there are two parties working on two tasks.
Crewmates, who are in charge of completing tasks on the spaceship. Finish all tasks, and you win.
Impostors, those who fake to be crewmates, but are actually sabotaging actual crewmates’ progress, or attempt killing them. When impostors lead crewmates by one member, they win.
I started watching IPL today, and I noticed that Hotstar feed is introducing an ambient background “fan noise”. The idea seems to be that it gives viewers a real match experience.
For some context, matches are happening in UAE, and it’s just the players at the stadium. Fans are not allowed for COVID-19 reasons.
However, the background noise was doing more damage than goodness. Especially as a hard of hearing person, I couldn’t hear any commentary. I found similar comments from other Hotstar users:
Hotstar should give an option to mute the background crowd noise on #IPL2020 matches.
I'd pay extra for it.
I was actually looking forward to this IPL without the crowds ð ð
@hotstar_helps guys i cannot hear any commentary with all the crowd noise. Its quite ridiculous that the fake noise is screwing the commentary volume. ðĪĶðŧââïļ
Some of my colleagues use Krisp at work. It’s a noise-cancelling app that’s commonly used with Zoom, Hangouts and other communication apps. I was curious to see if it might work with streaming services, and it does!
Krisp’s available as a desktop app, as well as in the form of a browser extension.
I tried the browser extension, but it didn’t work, as it appears Krisp needs the tab to introduce a “microphone stream” to enable noise-cancellation. Hotstar doesn’t require microphone access, which in turn means that noise cancellation cannot work.
Basically, the extension works with any web page that is using a microphone stream. All you need to do is to turn on the “Mute Noise” toggle and Krisp will start working on all the tabs that are currently using a microphone.
And, the desktop app (Windows in my case) works well! I use Windows 10, and I ran into some issues in marking it as the primary output device on Sound settings. Marking it as the primary output device didn’t save properly.
Update: It’s available now! In my test with Mullvad app, it doesn’t work. Mullvad’s DNS takes precedence. But it works flawless with Wireguard app instead. So, that’s what I am using, with Mullvad-generated config.
You must know that I am eagerly waiting for encrypted DNS on iOS 14. Last night, I came across NextDNS devs’ comment on reddit that their test build is pending Apple’s approval!
NextDNS test build running encrypted DNS system-wide on iOS 14, without configuring a VPN tunnel
With that news, I updated my iPad to iOS 14 public beta 2. This is my first time running a beta build. Going by Twitter, this beta is stable.
I also reached out to NextDNS devs on their Intercom, to know more about this build. They let me know that it’d be announced on their reddit, when Apple approves it.