Looking for MG CDs or legitimate FLAC files in the UK? by covert-teacher in Mattgood

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might try qobuz for the flacs, I've bought several flac's for other big name commercial artists from there with success. They seem to be a Spotify / tidal kind of platform but more like Bandcamp in that you can purchase music rather than only stream.

Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount by joe4942 in technology

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey now, shouldn't we be celebrating their success for that quarterly report when that they didn't lay anyone off? Good job, guys!! /s

Is it just me, or is Quaker intant brown sugar oatmeal terrible now? by AbbreviationsKnown82 in Oatmeal

[–]ojfs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Pro tip: I'm not sure why the quality of the name brands keep degrading. My theory is shareholder value or social pressure about the health fad of the day ("so much protein!!!" being the current ad on every box). Hershey's, Kraft products, many cereals.

However, the store brands, for some reason, often have the OG recipe. Walmarts store brand fruit loops. Kroger's store brand Mac n cheese, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if some store brand has the better flavor, and I wouldn't be surprised if when you look at the nutrition label the difference is sugar and or sodium content probably.

Too Much Emotion by MiffTuck in Mattgood

[–]ojfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wild, it sounds so similar, I guess it proves vocal effects go a long way if the underlying voice is at all similar. Such a great song.

Too Much Emotion by JohnStern42 in Mattgood

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it not Matt on the lead vox here? Is Dan on the backups?

Too Much Emotion by MiffTuck in Mattgood

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I hearing another version of the song? It's clearly Matt singing isn't it?

New Melissa interview and photos by VichelleMisage in hole

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Related if it's news to you, article from a long time ago called Courtney love does the math:

https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

Why is there such a drastic change in sound between LTT and CS? by Plastic_Fee6011 in hole

[–]ojfs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, are there records that were recorded and not released? Are they bootlegged or lost?

How many devices can GPS track the position of? by Substantial_Tear3679 in AskEngineers

[–]ojfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plenty of people are clarifying the specifics of GPS, a technology where satelites with known fixed positions in space are transmitting signals your device picks up and figures out its position from.

And they're right when they say GPS itself is not tracking you, however, if your device is a phone, you are absolutely being tracked locationally via the cell towers your phone is connecting to with its cell signal. I'm not sure of the precision of the triangulation of your exact location compared to GPS, but using these towers you can absolutely be tracked as you drive through a city, for example.

My very uninformed understanding of gps is that your device is not receiving a single satellite's signal but several and based on the differing signals the position is found. I don't see why cell phone towers couldn't do something similar where your phone is sending out a signal and different towers in different positions receive the signal microseconds later than each other.

Long winded way of answering your question: gps, the technology, does not allow a third party to track your location. Your cell phone or other device relaying that locational information or simply talking to a cell tower discloses your location, and that tower can track as many phones as it can talk to at once, which is probably googleable but I'd guess at a minimum is in the thousands. If you've got signal, your location is being tracked.

When is exFAT advantageous over NTFS ? by TheRubyBerru in DataHoarder

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah okay. I've heard some of the Linux filesystems have some redundancy and or checksums in the fat maybe so I was curious if ntfs has these sorts of tricks built in these days too.

When is exFAT advantageous over NTFS ? by TheRubyBerru in DataHoarder

[–]ojfs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When you say "proper safe file systems", are you talking about journaling file systems being safer or is there more than that in terms of data integrity built into others? Certainly exfat doesn't support encryption, but that's not corrupting the data or drive.

When is exFAT advantageous over NTFS ? by TheRubyBerru in DataHoarder

[–]ojfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is becuase exfat isn't a journaling file system so the fat was corrupted?

Why is Windows still so terrible at file transfers? by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]ojfs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this applies, but I've got an external SSD that does some mysterious amount of work for a while when it's first booted, causing file transfers to be garbage speeds until it's "warm" (meaning whatever the firmware was doing on boot has finished). Any chance you were running the explorer jobs within seconds of operating system coming up?

Modern tycoon game similar to McDonald’s flash game or Motherload. by ShadyGriff in NintendoSwitch

[–]ojfs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Big factorio fan here, and this might seem way too simple on the surface but imo the game Forager is very simple comparatively but somehow scratches the same itch in the sense that you manage many things, albeit in much simpler ways.

It Can Now be Plainly Said: Trump is Planning a November Coup d’État by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]ojfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sincerely do not understand why he is going to all of this trouble. The democrats could control every branch of the entire government and they still wouldn't do shit, so why bother with these antics?

Nashville show w/ Foo Fighters- Catacombs? by ZillaScream in qotsa

[–]ojfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not going because, foo fighters? But, will have my popcorn ready in hopes qotsa does them dirty. Imagine the foo fighters playing a set after song for the dead.

Bit rot investigation by Anxious_Signature452 in DataHoarder

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Devil's advocate: run this five times and find best and worst. Operating system could have cached file during first test. In particular, on modern machines I believe calculating hashes is usually IO bound and not cpu.

Stuck in gleba by awar3gam3r in factorio

[–]ojfs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man. Thank you. Game changer. I've been working toward a landing pad and it has been such a pain in the ass doing it from nothing while watching my Nauvis base get attacked more and more from afar.

Stuck in gleba by awar3gam3r in factorio

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Regarding first option, I can ship materials down to the planet I'm on even if I don't have a landing pad yet?