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Long photo-related but mostly off-topic rant to follow My partner just moved from an iPhone 14 Pro Max to an iPhone 15 Plus, because while she is happy to get USB-C to match every other goddamned thing in the house (jokingly, the same charger as her vape), the Pro Max doesn't come in pink, and...

I'm sure I have dozens of Sandisk cards that are between 64 and 256GB. They're more reliable than Samsung or Lexar and a lot cheaper than Angelbird.

Anything that sells refurb / secondhand cards carries a little bit of risk, but it beats wasting $100 extra to get a new in box item that isn't worth $150 in the first place.

I can't even tell what's being advertised by that.

I've had very few negative experiences with second hand video cards. I know for a fact that all of the GTX1080s I passed to people during the pandemic that were definitely used as crypto mining cards are still fine to this day. It's not all horror stories. You might look on ebay for cards...

I do not need to explain how WD sucks. You all already know. Every time I buy a SanDisk SD card, I die a little in my soul, although ironically the SD cards are the one thing with which I haven't had a bad time.

It's explicitly stuff that doesn't map well to anything else, so the OS just gives up and says "put it in that other category." If you are looking at things closely with ADB commands or a real file manager (e.g. Solid Explorer), you can get a better idea of what's going on, but that one report...

In nVidia-land, xx50 and xx50TI cards don't need additional power. A GTX 1050 can definitely do 4k60 and probably costs $100 or less as a refurb card. I know you're allergic to system pulls, but this is a case where using one absolutely makes sense, and no one sane was using cards that crappy to...

Apparently, second-hand RTX 3080TIs are now a very reasonable $400 - $500. If you don't mind the power draw, that's about as reasonable as anything I can see from nVidia. The 4070TI only just barely better for $300+ more, which says nVidia is still insane, even after another round of price cuts.

I think my Plex needs would definitely melt it, but so far it's good for Wii and Playstation 2 games, no problem. PS3 games are huge files and are probably pushing it for this hardware, but an RPi4 chokes and dies on 25 year old Nintendo games at 1080p so the improvement is substantial. My...

I got this absolute garbage PC for about $120. It is ABSOLUTELY garbage, make no mistake, but it's am amazing upgrade from an RPi 4 for running Batocera and various game emulators.

Circumstances being what they were, I didn't really have a choice but to get the car fixed. A cabin full of car exhaust is a great way to get rid of excess brain cells, and December in the Midwest is not really a time to try driving with windows down.

I got it fixed same day. I tried to give them the bill for it and that started a whole stupid conflict.

Since I can be somewhat excited about two things on the same day... For those who haven't seen it, "Our Flag Means Death" is about what we can definitely say is a Foppish Dandy who takes over a pirate ship from the vicious and world-weary Blackbeard. Everyone on the ship is a complete idiot...

A few years ago, I had my car in for a new set of tires. It was the last appointment of a work day for the tire place, but I had an appointment. All the bays were full when I got there, so a couple of the morons decided to go out in the parking lot and manually lift my car with jacks to do the...

I just checked using the freebie, but Safer-Networking applications have been obnoxious on Windows 10 since it came out. I believe Windows Defender was even marking Anti-Beacon as unwanted software for a minute, probably because Anti-Beacon disables the telemetry stuff Microsoft insists on using.

Do you have the paid version of Spybot or just the freebie? Firefox isn't being doing anything differently from normal on a freshly installed Windows 10 + Spybot (with Anti-beacon) for me. It did take 40 minutes for signature updates to download, though.

That's how I see it. I wind up getting and testing a lot of Android stuff; the people I work with all have poor taste and judgment in their mobile technology. The only place I can recall Google having specific device limits was Google Play Music, but that's been replaced by Youtube Music, which...

If it works with Apple computers, your printer already works with Internet Printing Protocol and should be supported going forward. There are a small number of printers that use the Windows graphical layout engine (GDI) to to handle printing and my guess is that those will be the ones that are...

Microsoft announced over the weekend that they're FINALLY moving to Internet Printing Protocol, the system that every single other OS uses to handle printing. Android, MacOS, BSD and Linux straight up use CUPS, which works with more or less everything. Since Macs use it, just about everything...

Most hosting providers have automated using Let's Encrypt Certificates, which are signed and available for free.

I see 33 on my account right now.

Apparently, Samyang also makes a 35-150/2-2.8, albeit only for FE-mount. Seems like it might be a more broadly adopted option if that's the case.

The video game ruining assholes of that name do their video game ruining in that very place. I am in fact sure that this is the process by which Bethesda makes games, only very slowly and with some kind of extra metrics awarding the most bugs and/or child molestations. For what it's worth, I...

Bethesda has always been the Fallout-Ruining Bugfest Nightmare Reason to Hate All Gamepads and Consoles to me but Nadia has spent about 6% of her entire waking life in Bethesda games. She actually pointed out that she has even more time than her Xbox numbers since she also played on her dad's...

My partner played about 10 hours of Starfield on her Xbox whateverX and gave up on it. She is currently playing Diablo 4, having reserved this day in advance for 24 entire hours of Bethesda nonsense. She is a person with a total of over 8000 in game hours between Skyrim and Fallout 3, New Vegas...

Abit made very interesting boards, but it wasn't well known for reliability. ECS was, and in my mind still is, the poster child for vomit grade PC components (Yes, they were THAT bad). But ECS also kept making more and more boards after other OEMs moved on, and I remember a lot of shops wound up...

Over the weekend, I had a NUC crap out in someone's office. I drove over and swapped it for an identical one and then went back about my day. Windows 11 was just fine and dandy, actually. No problems with Windows 11. These people have perpetual Office 2019 licenses on their systems, but they...

If you're just looking for an image host, Imgur.com is nice if you want to see metrics on what you're posting. If you don't care and just want a place to drop some random picture, there's prnt.sc.

I think this is pretty obvious but can't you just go in to power options and set "Do nothing when lid is closed and system is plugged in" under your power profile? You'd just have to open it to turn it on the first time. My stack of back to school laptops this year are Lenovo Ideapad 1 R3...

Yes, RAM support on AMD was definitely weird in that era. If I remember right, you could have compatibility issues over some chipsets supporting or not supporting double-density DDR, and that led to systems of wildly different capability. My experience with those particular AMD chipsets was...

Dear god I hated that SiS chipset. Via was always the better behaved option IMO.

I can set up a Wordpress for you in about 10 minutes. I suspect Handy could as well.

I take my camera out with me all the time. I try to clear it beforehand, if I'm going someplace in public. Concerts are iffy but because my partner knows people, sometimes do-able. Nightclubs generally aren't a problem. I usually just take a 24-70 and RF 35mm and keep them in a padded...

New lights definitely work as advertised. MUCH brighter. I'm not having people flash their brights at me, so they must not be TOO bright, but normal operating headlights are brighter than my old brights were. I'm going to say that's well worth the $60 I spent.

I don't have access to a garage of my own and I've never thought of a car as anything but an annoying, costly tool, but after checking the wisdom of youtube, this is something I can definitely do myself. Or rather, I will do, if Amazon ever brings me my package.

I'm mostly just thinking of it as an extremely flexible daily use lens. My walking around lens is almost always my 24-70/2.8. I know a lot of people love their 24-105/4 but IMO that doesn't feel like enough of a gain at the tele end to make up for the slower aperture. Going from 35 up past...

Not at all. But the platform supports astonishing amounts of RAM and I/O. I could even turn off hyperthreading entirely and still have an extremely nice VM host. That system might be a nice overall upgrade for me.

The Z7 was the nicest body Nikon had at the time. The Z6 was out by then, but IIRC it was seen as a step down. Nikon DOES have the Tamron 35-150/2-2.8 and that is definitely another dream lens. They make that lens for Sony as well, but I have higher hopes to see an RF native version. That might...

I did some poking around and apparently weak headlights are a very common complaint with my car in particular. The housings do not look bad and they are clean, but my bulbs are original to my car. I'm going to try well-reviewed-by-other-Element-owners front and rear LEDs since my roommate is...

So far as I can tell, my car just has a swappable front bulb that I can reach just by popping the hood. I've put in rear lights before but the fronts are original to the car and have never burned out or been broken. The lights look OK to me, but I'm usually not the person driving my car at 3:30AM.

Since I'll be damned if I ask my father a single thing about carsanything: I drive around in a 2011 Honda Element. To my mind, it's a perfect car. Two doors. Plenty of room for stuff. The seats are at exactly waist height. Doesn't look like a van or a station wagon. My partner swears up and...

My single experience with a Nikon z7 was a resounding meh, but I'm not interested in wildlife photography or lenses that look like antitank weapons, which seems to be the largest source of Nikon's appeal.

This is somewhat relevant to my interests. Only 4x U.2s but it comes with a tri-mode HBA and supports 12x 3.5" drives. Skylake Xeons run anywhere from 6 to 28 hyperthreaded cores, are priced reasonably and registered DDR4 isn't crazy expensive any longer.

That is indeed a very weird camera. 60MP BSI sensor but only one SD slot? I could see the 500g body as a bonus for the poor guys who wind up carrying multiple bodies to handle all the lenses they need but even then I'd want a second card on general principle. I've been shooting video at the...

OpenCL is probably somewhat slower than using CUDA to do CUDA stuff.

The other mainstream machine learning language is OpenCL, which has pretty pathetic support compared to CUDA. There's a dim possibility that Intel and/or AMD could leapfrog nVidia and CUDA, maybe with some new and hyper-specialized compute units or extra instructions, but given where nVidia's...

It's hard to say because an awful lot of stuff wants to work with CUDA, which is an nVidia-only deal. It seems to be a generally better graphics card all around though.

Apparently, the XT 7600 and 7700 take nVidia hardware to the shed at their respective price points. This is actually fantastic news. An XT 7700 with performance on par with an RTX 4070 that also has 16GB RAM AND costs $150 less is what we are all looking for for a next Gen update, I think.

I couldn't find any serious performance advantage to 11 and there's really nothing in the UI that makes feel like switching anything I actually care about it, but I've been keeping up and trying new things just to see it change. It's fine, just like every other Windows.