Ginger Penguin

So is the thinking we won't compete in the first one and I should leave all CPU resources on City Run until the 12th?

Are we doing all NFS subprojects? It doesn't look like there's anything mandated but any strategic advantage with concentrating on any of them?

Hey, a bit of a serious question here and it's probably not in the right spot so sorry about that. I want to have as few identifying pieces of information here as possible but I recently became aware that my ex had been having all my emails forwarded to them by use of a filter in Gmail. I have removed the filter, changed all associated passwords and the password to my password manager just in case so I'm fairly sure I've put a stop to it though it's obviously still scary. We've been broken up for about 2 years now and there were a whole lot of stalking and harassment issues from around that time that I dealt with then. I do intend to report this to the relevant authorities but I would 1. like to have as much information as possible to give them upfront in the hope that the more they have to work with, the more they're actually likely to look into it and 2. to know whether or not this is a remnant from previously or if this is something new that I need to be worried about and if I should be keeping more vigilant in other areas of my life. The information I'm hoping to receive is when this filter was put in place. Even if they can't say exactly, I would imagine they'd have logs they'd be able to give me about when the first time my account forwarded an email to them. It's frustrating that this isn't something I can check as they don't show up in sent anywhere. I've tried looking in the support pages but you can only seem to send Google an email about a few products and they palm you off to the community forums. They do mention you can report account hijacking but they don't say how and that page only mentions it for Drive and the office suite like Docs and Sheets etc for some reason. Any help in the right direction would be really appreciated. Thank you!

Hi all! Bought some used speakers and one of them is missing two of the four screws that hold down the speaker wire but on opposite sides (one on top, one on bottom). A picture for reference is below. I had no intention of biwiring them anyway so I'm just trying to work out the best way to wire these with a single cable? I was thinking of looping the cable around the bare posts and back through the screw tightly enough which should serve for at least a temporary solution?

Hi all, I currently have a 5.1 setup from Yamaha that was very basic but I'm honestly very happy with it for the most part. I've been wanting to swap out the receiver for a while, though. Mostly the lack of Dolby Vision passthrough has been the gripe but it's felt silly to spend 2-5x as much as I spent on the whole system to get a receiver with all the bells and whistles I might want in the future like a bunch of extra channels for height etc. I saw that a Pioneer VSX-394 receiver is on sale here for under $500AUD. It supports Dolby Vision, Atmos and DTS:X, has Bluetooth so I'd be able to play music using my home theatre easily which I'd love. It also seems to support that room analysis thing I've seen many YouTube videos do which my Yamaha one certainly doesn't. The only feature it's lacking that I could see myself using in the near future is HDMI 2.1 if I wanted to hook up my PC to it to do some couch gaming but I'd need a PC upgrade for that anyway (only HDMI 2.0 on my 2080 Super) so probably not a big deal given we're hitting the $1000 mark at least for that. Would I be getting any benefit from this new receiver in the audio department just by having it able to decode Atmos and DTS:X even though I'm only going to be using it with a 5.1 system? It says it supports Dolby Atmos Height Virtualizer & DTS Virtual:X as well. While I've always been wary of those kinds of upmixing-type marketing technologies, maybe they would actually be a benefit? Or, given that I'm planning on renting for at least the next 2 years so wouldn't be able to put in proper height speakers until 2026 at the earliest, should I just keep what I've got until then and upgrade to the fully-featured unit rather than going through this middle step? Thanks in advance for the advice!

Hi all, I've been running the current iteration of my server for just over a year now and I realised that I had been running a little low on space lately (I thought 30TB usable would be more than enough, oh well) so was clearing out projects older than 6 months when I noticed that the space used for one of my datasets (Projects Recent) was about 5TB larger reported in TrueNAS vs in Windows. I expected a little bit of variation but as you can see from my other two datasets, they match well enough so any idea where my missing 5TB has got to? Cheers!

I seem to recall it was in there but very quickly and swept under the bed so to speak. They had a few sponsored videos I'd already seen that week and had checked them out which is how I first came across the subscription issue. So when I saw the sponsor disclaimer for the LTT video I was listening out for any mention of it. It really did feel like it was worded in such a way so that it would be very easy to miss as you must have done and I assume a lot of other people would have too.

Just saw this comment on the Reddit thread in regards to EightSleep that reminded me of the company Luke was having a go at on the WAN Show a while back. I don't think he named them but yeah it does make it a bit worse given they'd had first-hand experience and grievances with the product and company:

Yeah, it really is a very poor showing when they've been openly against this kind of business model in the past and very much rightly so! Given that, I don't know what they can do at this point beyond saying 'We won't work with these guys again. Sorry we didn't realise you would feel this way.' because it's a bit mind-boggling to think that nobody would have brought up how bad this would look. YouTube and Floatplane comments seem to be full of people feeling the exact same way. Are they going to do this again but with a different sponsor who does the same thing?

Oh I realised that I changed my forum username after I filled in the form! I've put it in again and my BOINC username is the same as my forum name now. I hope that doesn't make things incredibly confusing.

Yeah, this was probably the first time I clicked on an ad in a very long time because it actually seemed like an interesting product that, while I'm currently single, when I have been partnered, has been a huge issue. I figured it wouldn't be cheap but could be a worthwhile investment for a one-time upfront cost but $3000 plus an ongoing subscription for nothing that I can see that can't be run locally.

Ah yes and they doubled their output in the last hour and will probably overtake at the next update if they keep that level of work up. I hadn't realised they were quite so close to us there.

Yeah, it seems if we want to take silver overall, Planet3D needs to lose a place or two. Any benefit to moving CPUs off Numbers and over to Einstein?

Thinking into the future a bit, once the Sprint ends, would we be better served shifting CPU resources to Einstein or back to Yoyo for the final leg? It seems pretty unlikely that we'd be able to get any higher than where we are for yoyo though we could be overtaken. But there seems a lot more room to jump up the tally with Einstein.

Actually I just got that fixed! I was editing the preferences for Home rather than Generic.