Minor complaints thread (18 Viewers)

[nuke terrorist]

and TippFM

Only started listening to that in last few weeks (pre riot) because of callers they regularly allowed say ignorant crap on week day mornings.
"Thanks letting me say stuff RTE wouldn't allow". This seemed calculated to gain listeners.
If this is happening around the country we are in trouble.

 

[Deadmanposting]

radio in the car - mainly dublin city FM and nova (even though i kinda hate nova).
radio in the shed - mainly 8radio. which is too samey; they need more specialisation of their output.

I try to listen to 8Radio, but they seem to be strictly on a playlist and veer off it rarely

I like listening to music nerds. WFMU is full of those types. And I know Iggy and Huey on 6Music have some interns or assistants or whatever curate most of their shows, but I love the variety.

I kind of never listen to terrestrial radio, stream almost everything.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I promise I'm gonna to try to stay off the noisy neighbour topic

Love to all

 

[magicbastarder]

I try to listen to 8Radio, but they seem to be strictly on a playlist and veer off it rarely

I like listening to music nerds. WFMU is full of those types. And I know Iggy and Huey on 6Music have some interns or assistants or whatever curate most of their shows, but I love the variety.

I kind of never listen to terrestrial radio, stream almost everything.

i only really listen to 8radio in the evenings, and it doesn't seem playlisted then.
has been mainly the blindboy podcast for when i've been painting.

 

[Deadmanposting]

i only really listen to 8radio in the evenings, and it doesn't seem playlisted then.
has been mainly the blindboy podcast for when i've been painting.

I keep blindboy for long drives or trail runs or hikes
No distractions and can really vibe on it

 

[magicbastarder]

"As our Irish hub is not a shop, we regret to inform you that it is not possible to take this to the hub and it does need to be collected by a courier."
it's about 3km from my house. now i have to wait till next week to have it collected.

that's the gear4music return i had to arrange. they haven't been able to replicate the issue with the mixer, and i asked about collecting it - 'sure, call to the warehouse at any time between 10am and 4pm, no need to prearrange'. wtf?

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I keep blindboy for long drives or trail runs or hikes
No distractions and can really vibe on it

I'm not sure if a guy who wears a plastic bag over his head is the best representative to have for mental health.

 

[magicbastarder]

i am a late convert to blindboy, only started listening in the last few weeks. really enjoying it.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I'm not sure if a guy who wears a plastic bag over his head is the best representative to have for mental health.

I suspect the bag comes off for recording
So that's when I listen

 

[ernesto]

I'm not sure if a guy who wears a plastic bag over his head is the best representative to have for mental health.

On the contrary

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Must be hard enough to get those plastic bags now.
He probably buys them in bulk online.

 

[magicbastarder]

they're from JCs in swords (since bought out by dunnes) and i think he's got a large stash of them/

 

[dudley]

Pretty sure I read they're replicas now, and made from satin or something, so they're both comfortable and quiet.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Pretty sure I read they're replicas now, and made from satin or something, so they're both comfortable and quiet.

beat me to it ;-)

they are probably the solid gold toilet equivalent of plastic bags now.

 

[ann post]

We are all wearing the plastics on the inside already

 

[magicbastarder]

not sure if a disk in my computer is failing, or if it's something more fundamental like the motherboard. i have an SSD and two spindle disks in it and the speed of both spindle disks seems to have fallen dramatically, one more than the other. but very intermittently they seem to recover.
this is not exactly stellar:


4kb in bad sectors on that disk too - but i've never heard of a failing disk affecting the speed of a different disk?

 

[rettucs]

not sure if a disk in my computer is failing, or if it's something more fundamental like the motherboard. i have an SSD and two spindle disks in it and the speed of both spindle disks seems to have fallen dramatically, one more than the other. but very intermittently they seem to recover.
this is not exactly stellar:
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4kb in bad sectors on that disk too - but i've never heard of a failing disk affecting the speed of a different disk?

Hard to know. is it an old disk? Badly fragmented? That could affect read speeds. Are the disks separate? Or part of a RAID? A bad device can cause all sorts of side-effects, often unpredictably.

 

[magicbastarder]

this is far beyond fragmentation; i use ICE Mirror to make mirrors of my photos and other directories between them, and that seems to be working at normal speed right now (i'm confirming i have an up to date mirror in case one disk is on the way out).
they're just two separate drives, no RAID, on SATA connection. the computer has been moved a couple of times with the rewiring and painting, but i suspect if a connection inside got jogged somehow, there'd be radio silence rather than this intermittent issue.

 

[magicbastarder]

am beginning to wonder if it's windows explorer - this is the first time i've tried accessing those disks since the computer was patched last week. ice mirror works at normal speed.

 

[rettucs]

is it a work computer? just get a new one!