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Gesundheit.

I do have a bond for private work.

I think it's just Radeon DNA. I'm not sure what part of that is the deoxyribonucleaic acid part, but I'm not a marketing guy.

As with all things Sigma, it's bulky AF. It's forgivable for an everyday walking around 24-70/2.8 but the long lens is an extra-special complication.

It seems that we'll be seeing RDNA 4 and at least the higher-end Zen 5 X3D devices in January. AMD released its plans for CES today and it sounds like everything they have for next year is on that list. Edit: forgot the important linky part.

Funny thing about having the middle of my body turn purple was that I at least got some jokes out of it. I'm not gonna repeat any of them but stuff was looking pretty weird there for a couple weeks. Affordable, worthwhile insurance does not exist for me. My employer is exempt from offering...

I am glad that you will be OK. Broken ribs are awful, but there's next to nothing to be done. You just have to wait until they don't hurt any more. I do hope you get something out of this asshole but I've never been that lucky. I have been hit by a car 11 times in my life. Not my car, me, the...

I'm actually pretty excited that there's a new RF 70-200 because there will now be a meaningful market for used 70-200s, possibly even some that cost less than $1500. The telescoping 70-200 may be less durable than an internal zoom body, but it's also substantially smaller and lighter and of...

You were complaining about the occupation of a PCI slot.

I had to look at a picture of another Brocade to see. This thing had a (custom?) 3D printed cover fitted over the unoccupied ports. The occupied ports appear to have MTRJ transceivers in them, a fiber connector I've never actually seen in use before.

Both Intel and AMD have essentially moved reasonable graphics into the CPU. You can get a Ryzen 7500f and save ~$20 vs getting a faster 7600X with graphics, or use something like a 5700G with the AM4 system that's probably your backup to a backup PC right now and either way you'll get...

It looks like the ports 5 - 8 are blocked off with some kind of plastic cover. It didn't just pop off, so I'm assuming it's there for a reason.

I got my 7250. It only has four SFP+ ports on it, but that's more 10Gb ports than I have 10Gb NICs. My AOC cables are on a literal slow boat from China. "Arrival expected before December 6th." I ordered them two weeks ago. This is the price I pay to save $50 on cables. It does power on and seems...

I think Intel didn't see a benefit to having a high end desktop platform and so it's dead. Gamers don't need I/O and anyone whose needs are more serious can probably be bullied into contemporary Xeon or Threadripper, LM's complaints about core frequencies aside. I can live with 48 PCIe lanes...

The issue for the moment is that RTX 4080+ stocks have been depleted in normal retail, but very fast (for everything but CUDA and ray tracing) RX 7800+ hardware is readily available and finally in the realm of sane pricing, where I'd argue it should've been all along. An awful lot of gamers are...

I don't think it's crapping out. It seems fine in games as far as I can tell. Even if I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4k (AFAIK, this is still the gold standard for gaming stress testing and in fact it's the only contemporary game I have installed), it's able to keep up at playable framerates. It...

I make a new tape set approximately quarterly. Raw camera data stays on its card of origin, to Crashplan and on old SMR drives I have, since I have approximately infinity of them. Finished video projects go "where they need to", which usually means NextCloud or Google Photos and possibly...

Given that contemporary Intel iGPUs are made of the same Xe cores as the dGPUs, I think it's safe for this upcoming generation at least. Scuttling Battlemage would also be killing software support for an important part of its CPUs and that does NOT make sense. Intel may be looking to get bought...

You can ignore the requests for payment info if you are getting free software. Many people too young to have any sort of payment info do this. I'm also a fan of the fdroid (FOSS) app store and Amazon also runs a reputable store for Android software. Some application developers, such as Firefox...

I'm happy with Gboard because most Android keyboards don't offer dictionary import. If I didn't like Gboard, I'd far rather investigate an open source option before paying $25 for something many of the FOSS keyboards also provide by default.

There are a crap-ton of open-source keyboards out there that I'd be prepared to trust over somebody's $25 Android luxury whale option.

I've definitely put it through its paces with 100% GPU and RAM utilization. Maybe the problem only happens when I'm using hardware encoders? It doesn't seem to happen when I fire up a game though. I'm willing to chalk it up to something stupid about its software stack. I can swap in my A770...

I usually acquire a bunch of drives at once. I test them for around a day before I do anything else.

I often test three or four drives in one go.

I usually run Seatools long generic drive tests through 5 - 10 cycles when I first get a new mechanical drive. Seatools is kind of nice for letting these tests run in parallel, which is one of the reasons I like using it that way.

I do see a difference from the RX6900 and other video card I have: Every once in a while, it'll stop updating video playback if I have the card doing something resource intensive, by which I mean video editing. The audio still happens, but Youtube/VLC/Kodi just gets stuck on a particular frame...

Funny thing about LTO is that older tapes are WAY cheaper. I'd love to have those 20+TB tapes but I'm pretty happy but I'm OK paying $10/tape and just using more of them.

There's Swiftkey, which has nothing in particular to recommend it other than not being Gboard and is the reason Microsoft killed Swype after it acquired it, and dozens of deeply stupid emoji keyboards. I suspect Swiftkey is giving the same telemetry to Microsoft that Gboard gives to Google...

I think they're trying to steal some thunder from Intel.

We will continue the discussion of LM's contributions to both American imperialism and The Bourbon Review shortly but we have a launch date for Zen5 X3D, November 7th, as well as mention of ~10% price cuts on non-3D Zen 5s real soon now.

Immich is self-hosted media catalog that includes optional components for recognizing faces and locations. It can run on a Synology NAS. Sounds right up your alley. As far as removing equipment, almost all my data is on tapes that are kept both locally and at my parents' home. If I had to...

LM was definitely the Doogie Howitzer of convenient political target removals. While his early career largely revolved around single-targets that were avowed enemies of the Carter Administration and in support of British rule in southeast Africa, he quickly moved on to large-scale political...

Very carefully and with substantial restraint.

This is of course exactly what the point man for a deep state Globalist kill team operator would have us believe, that the civilian employee of a company that is related to other companies would have nothing to do with the goings-on of late-70s Rhodesia and collapse of leftist popular...

This is Indiana so that's a statistically probable guess.

Someone just asked me if I could "download a new screen" for their broken laptop.

I'd definitely isolate storage from services, but my home systems tend to be the leftovers from past workstations like my Threadripper. and in that case I most often have computers that have both a lot of CPU cores AND tons of available IO, because that's what I prioritize in my workstation systems.

For the most part, "Server" means running either Windows Server or some Linux, *BSD or Solaris-derived operating system. I guess Hackintoshes as well, but most people don't think of MacOS that way. Windows Server is technically expensive, but not really because key resellers are a thing. The...

It seems to me that motherboard OEMs aren't particularly motivated to break out PCIe lanes. My x670e has some of that, in only having one PCIe 5 m.2, but I don't see why we couldn't get MUCH more flexible x4 PCI 3 slots instead of borderline useless x1 PCIe 5 lanes. I suppose that's another form...

As I understand it, it's a giant joke for them and for their fans. But they're working stiffs who go out and tour in their... orc costumes? In 2019, I accidentally wound up seeing Hu at a show in Las Vegas. I just happened to be out wandering around with my camera and some dude offered me a...

The GOAT of keyboards was Swype with Dragon Naturallyspeaking, which had shortcuts for adding punctuation so that you could type proper sentences without stopping your flow. It also had the ability to back up your personal dictionary online and a very easy tool for adding new words as well as...

I firmly believe LM works for a three letter agency, something that definitely involves words like attaché. I think I'm on a roughly four year replacement cycle. Storage is what changes the most for me, mostly by what storage is cheapest and when.

I don't have a hard number. I like the idea of having a capable system and my professional life means I can accumulate hardware regardless.

From what she told me, they're all working class dudes from MA and they're a lot of fun.

We're spending money on computer parts. It's not like any of it going to appreciate like a Rolex or Antique Steinway.

"Archaic." It's like dd with his shitty 14900k. 😂

My all time favorite catch was wandering in to a random place off Bourbon Street to catch ~90something year old Andy Bey crooning. He's not a big name and he never really was, but my mother was a fan and I've known who he was since I was a kid. My partner has gotten to meet Wynton Marsalis and...

I swapped my Ryzen 5900X, 32GB RAM and motherboard for a Sapphire RX 6900XT. 1. This thing needs its own ZIP code 2. It'll run Resolve really well 3. Normal PSU connectors 4. It is surprisingly quiet. 5. The guy I got it from was only looking for $350. Even given the low regard AMD cards have...

There are some benchmarks and the rumored pricing basically suggests we'll see the X3Ds at roughly "one step up" pricing vs the the Xs, so a ~$600 9900X3D. I'm curious but not that interested.

Apparently, we're getting an updated DIMM standard, CUDIMMs, with Arrow Lake and probably eventually on AM5. The idea is that these modules will have their own clocking chips per module so they will always run at their rated speed. This should solve the 4-slot problem on desktop platforms and...