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My Sony body usually gets used with a wide FOV at medium apertures, lately the EF-S 18-135, or with a 24/2.8, which goes a long way to make my life easy with it. It's also used more for video than photos.

Nearly all the lenses I have are EF lenses. Most of my collection has been offered to me because a doctor friend has bought an RF equivalent. I just use EF adapters on all three of the mirrorless bodies in the house. The Canon EF-RF adapters cost like $75 and work perfectly; most of my lenses...

I'm obviously not the target user for such a thing, but it does give me hope that they're offering a variety of different SKUs. Maybe the more expensive "Pro" models won't be SMR nonsense. The Seagate 15mm 5TB drives are fine-ish as backup targets and they have been reliable in my experience. I...

I thought Apple's deal was having multiple binaries in the same file such that whichever architecture could run its software without having to worry about compatibility? IIRC That's how it handled the 68000 to PPC and PPC to x86 transitions. My partner has been messing with the A770-equipped PC...

There's some indication that nVidia is planning a partnership with MediaTek to make laptop and desktop class CPUs that might compete with Qualcomm / Intel / AMD. I'm not sure if we're talking about ARM or x86, but Mediatek's ARM SoCs are notable for being highly competitive with Qualcomm's for...

The first thing that you need to figure out is what sort of RAID your server is using. Synology RAID is functionally Linux LVM and the disk set from a Synology box can be attached to a Linux PC and repaired. But you say the RAID is on a server, and that could be a lot of different things. If the...

Weren't you running your whole IT infrastructure off VMware workstation back in the day? Maybe 15 years ago?

Probably, if your motherboard at least has one PS/2 port. There are definitely people who have 7 working on 5000-series CPUs.

Broadcom is at this point well known for trashing every tiny bit of goodwill it had by killing ESXi and perpetual VMware licenses, but it has taken the tiny step of making VMware Workstation and Fusion free for individual use. I assume that means they're never going to update it again and it's a...

I sincerely doubt that will be the problem. More than likely, the issue you'll run in to is that the driver installation packages for your motherboard will refuse to run as straight up executables. That'll be the AMD Radeon-whatever driver for the CPU's integrated graphics; Ryzen Master, the...

My Google News feed told me that about the time I went to bed last night but there's no specs, so all we know right now is that some lucky stiffs with $7500 to spare will have a really nice Xmas present.

Don't panic. "Not supported" does NOT mean things won't work, only that AMD isn't going to do the work to help anyone. Since there's no difference between drivers on 10 and 11, you may have to manually edit a .INF for have to extract files out of the the Ryzen Master install package. This has...

Windows RT was actually used on low-power Surface tablets. I got familiar with them because a lot of POS systems tied to Microsoft Dynamics and used them for ordering and credit card processing. They were weird little guys but to their credit, they could play any media file you threw at them and...

Windows 10 and 11 had ARM versions, although I suspect you'd have a hard time buying it that way. Standard product keys work if you happen upon a copy, though. If your memory is long enough, Windows 8 and 8.1 ALSO had ARM releases, but that was called Windows RT.

You can probably set up something like a Google Alert.

Rather than look at Apple (once again, LM, can you at least not hold down the shift key when you type that?), we're very close to seeing mainstream ARM for Windows. Qualcomm says they have something that's competitive with Intel laptop CPUs that can get double the battery life and half the per...

The standard line for AMD for a long time has been that its integrated graphics tend to be substantially better than whatever Intel happened to drop in a diaper. It was entirely valid for a long time: AMD integrated graphics was double or triple what Intel offered for the same money. That's not...

Right now I am not all that concerned about it until I decide I really want that $3000 camera lens. Camera-related news still shows up on mainstream sites like Engadget and Ars Technica. Maybe I'll start paying more attention to PetaPixel or Youtube Photography guy Jared Polin, who are both...

I still wanna know why we need an NPU. Much as I love letting ChatGPT write 90% of a script for me, but it's not like I'm running a local LLM to do that. They are a sucker's game, with the nVidia x50 and sub x500RX hardware largely unchanged year over year. We still have Xeons, Threadrippers...

I saw that, but overall, I'm not sure how helpful CanonRumors has been since the last guy left anyway.

I suspect that the day we get APUs that are actually somewhat competitive with current-gen consoles, we'll be able to say they're good enough for most people. That isn't the case yet, but supposedly AMD Strix Point, scheduled for release in 2025, be able to deliver 4070-like performance on an...

It strikes me that we might all wind up using eGPUs if the future is four-slot 600W graphics hardware. Just build the water cooling and 6kg of finned copper radiator directly in to the device and call it a day.

Plus side on the S23FE is that you'll get another three years of OS updates on it. There's no compelling reason to switch it for anything else if you're happy with the battery life.

Leakers seem to think that the RTX 5090 and/or 5080 will be announced this June, with availability in Q3 2024. The stated reasoning for this is increasing competition from AMD for AI hardware necessitating a speedy launch of next-gen nVidia chips more generally. So if you really want to get the...

Apparently, the A35 is the replacement for the A55 in the US Market. The A35 has a $100 lower MSRP in exchange for a one generation older Exynos SoC, mildly downgraded camera sensors, a plastic frame and less RAM across models. It's probably closer to what Moto is doing and it'll probably wind...

The trend is definitely entering the space heater range. I roll my eyes every time Intel releases a new desktop CPU. Apparently i9s have been running on unbounded power consumption, even on E-cores where their contribution to overall performance is literally meaningless. High end nVidia is in...

You can ALREADY just create a local account and use any account belonging to the Administrator group to decrypt the PC. You don't have to do anything with Windows Hello at all for that. It's just that future versions of Windows are going to nag you about not being in a Microsoft-approved...

The leaked specs seem to suggest Intel and AMD are both trying to offer things in what nVidia calls midrange, rather than making furnace-grade GPUs that exceed reality and all possible budgets; Battlemage is supposedly going to top out at that 300W sweet spot. I swapped a former student my...

Windows Hello is available on all Windows 10 and 11 computers. It is a form of extensible authentication that can use a PIN or a card/NFC reader or a biometric sensor. If I happen to conduct an e-commerce transaction from MS Edge, it'll try to fill card details it imported from some other...

Microsoft has users create a Microsoft Account with an email address and a password. Microsoft has a separate security system called Windows Hello, which can be tied to a local OR a Microsoft account and can use secondary authentication methods like facial recognition, fingerprint reader or...

It's not so much that it must be connected to the internet forever, but it has to be connected for the Microsoft account to be set up. Current standards also default to encrypting the primary drive with Bitlocker and creation of a PIN that is emphatically not the password associated with the...

They're going to start bitching for local accounts that already exist. How long until people with non-federated on premises domain accounts get the same treatment?

Apparently, Windows 11's next big update is going to start pressuring users on local accounts to switch to Microsoft accounts. This is a whole new level of aggravation, and something that's not going to get better in Windows 12.

Apparently not until 2025.

It looks like vanilla 4070s are getting down to reasonable prices. I know that's because of dwindling supply, but I still see it as good news. The A750 and A770 are likewise seeing meaningful discounts; they're about $50 cheaper. Supposedly Battlemage will hit 2nd half of 2024 and nVidia is...

Edge and Media Player aren't the one I hate, but yes, I've seen OneDrive come back in spite of Group Policies and removing the binaries and registry entries for it. Microsoft is VERY thorough in re-adding it in spite of any precaution to keep it off computers. I manually used the ADK to build...

Tiny 11 Builder has been updated to support all Windows 11 releases. It's basically a long Powershell script that pulls out a list of bullshit Windows Store applications, but it also gives your Windows 11 install an Edge, Media Player and OneDrive-ectomy. The script is very easy to read and...

It's a FUN example; it was a form of identity that worked perfectly anywhere someone might reasonably encounter a European ID card in the US. I think it actually got less scrutiny than oddball US State IDs, where someone might actually look for all the details on the card. When my friend...

My best friend's older sister is a naturalized citizen of Germany, and so my friend was given on an older National ID card to my friend to use for 18 - not-quite 21 shenanigans. Hilariously, that meant we could go to The Aviary in Chicago but got the cops called for trying to use it to walk in...

I had to service three Windows XP systems earlier in the week. They talk to commercial embroidery systems that don't have software that operates anything newer and won't virtualize worth a shit because of a USB security dongle, so they've just had their second whole system transfer. As...

AMD released desktop and notebook Ryzen 8000-series Pro CPUs this week. They look basically the same as the 8x00G models but AMD says they have NeuralPUs for AI workloads. I'm not sure if that's a pile of marketing or something real and useful, but it is a move forward. This might make the next...

My partner's Microsoft account is the one she made for Xbox when she was a little girl, and it's tied to just under two decades of product purchases and game achievements. Unfortunately, it's also tied to 2FA info that belongs to her dad, since six year olds generally don't have private email...

Apropos of nothing, I love it when major media sources have to report reddit and twitter users as sources for breaking news, including their hilariously inappropriate user names. We live in a dystopian media hellscape where we have to take Elon Musk's stinky poo garbage site seriously, but it's...

Aren't the 670p drives QLC NAND? Maybe not the best choice for a primary drive.

My favorite high endurance 2.5" drives are Intel S4510s, followed by Samsung 860 Pros. The 860 Pros are more or less impossible to find new, but the Intel drives are pretty easy to come by, which is one of the reason I like them as much as I do.

DRAM prices can fluctuate in a similar fashion to other memory types. No manufacturer wants their goods at their lowest prices and you must remember other times that we've seen peaks and troughs in that pricing.

SSD prices fell to historical lows last year. I'm REALLY happy I have a stack of Intel 8TB u.2 drives right now because the supply for those evaporated in late February and I know I can't afford the current generation models.

His eye socket was shattered in a fall down some stairs a couple years ago, where he was also diagnosed with dementia, along with substantial weight loss probably due to depression. He chose to retire during the pandemic and had been working on a text of personal interest, which involved travel...

Also, the phone number he provided to his Microsoft account is apparently a land line. The only progress I've made with this is that he finally did come up with the email address he signed up to use on his computer. An address he no longer has access to. I'm at the point where I've tried...

A Windows 11 horror story: I'm looking at a Dell XPS 9320 (11" 13th gen intel, just over a year old). Its owner is in early onset dementia. He can't remember his Microsoft PIN or password and his appearance has changed so substantially over the last year that he can't use his Windows Hello...