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I had a package of fiber optic cables USPS'd to me from Schaumberg, IL last week. It was last scanned in Arizona and I do not understand why or how that happened.

Chromebooks mostly have either Celeron N-something, Ryzen 3s for the rare AMD models, or Mediatek Kompanio, Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 or Kyro ARM-based SoCs. High end Chromebooks can have full-on laptop CPUs in them, but those are famously bad at being Chromebooks since they drop all pretense of...

I am actually not sure what direction I would go if I wanted a dedicated video camera. I still want to know what Nikon is going to do with Red.

I think it's entirely appropriate for Computers. Who among us doesn't use some or other Google product as part of our computing every day? Re: search as a public utility, I agree that it probably should be, but we in the USA have a political party that can't be trusted with the concept of...

Google's status as a monopoly in search and advertising technologies are being tested in US Federal court starting today. At issue in the first of these trials is the idea that Google both sets the market rates for ad search terms and acts as a buyer on behalf of customers that advertise through...

Newegg gave me a $10 gift card for hitting the back button while I was on its checkout screen today. I had a shopping cart with a dozen Chromebooks, because neither Walmart nor Amazon can deliver the model I was going to buy before the end of the week. Newegg is the same price and they're...

Dude, you do not want to own anything with a Core m CPU. Those are ultra low voltage devices and they're beyond pathetic. Like "SoCs in Tracphones laugh at them"-grade bad.

There are definitely plenty of devices that are still 1GbE only. The 8 bay Synology I've had since the Obama administration, I'm willing to forgive the lack of fast connectivity. Less so something just being introduced to the market.

My favorite thing at the moment are $600 NAS devices that still only have 1GbE interfaces. Getting the "Video Editing" versions of the same product is what you need to see a 10GbE port.

The Tab S10 is said to not have the smallest 10" option, which will instead be released as the Tab S10FE. I have an S8 and an S9+ (the 12" model) as well as an older S6 around the house. I actually think the 12" model is a little too big for my liking, so I currently use the S8 for tablet...

That's the "or the like" part, LM.

I usually suggest Boost Mobile to people looking to cut their mobile bill. Boost is a Tmobile MVNO that has a $25 for everything plan with IIRC a 30GB throttled cap. Being an MVNO means you won't get priority on cell towers vs a direct Tmo customer, but if "The Big One" hits CA or you are busy...

1kg is a pretty normal weight for a Sigma zoom. It's within the range of normal weight for something I'd hand-hold or balance on the body. It's not the 3kg 120-300 that has to have a tripod mount. I know it's not parfocal, so you don't keep focus while you're zooming, but I'm not a pro video...

You can absolutely download the media without an account, but the links to do so change periodically. The easiest way to GET one of those links is by signing in to Office.com, but the links remain usable for months and officecdn.microsoft.com does not enforce any authentication in and of itself.

Not with the old-ass Sony APS-C body I have, but if I had an A7r4 or the like, I'd be all over that thing.

Sigma apparently just launched a 28-105/2.8 for Sony that costs half what the RF mount Canon version does, $1500 MSRP. It's big and heavy, but that's implied just by having the name Sigma on it. It's in One True Lens territory for an awfully lot of use cases.

I can't say that my Yongnuo flashes have been anything but reliable. I switch them out with the Canons freely.

I have a (VERY) small studio space in what used to be an unused office or possibly utility room. It's about 8'x12' with about 2' of that space devoted to some furniture and props I like. The room has zero natural light, so to even walk in, I have to turn on a LED lamp. I do use flash when it's...

Samsung dropped the SD card after the S20-series, I personally don't care about the 3.5mm audio jack, but that's been gone a similar amount of time. The Galaxy A5x series still has the SD slot but the newest model from that line wasn't released in the US, relegating us to the less exciting A3x...

Extra camera coverage. My phone is water resistant. I can use it in fresh water so long as I don't dunk it. The action cams are kind of obnoxious for just turning off when I'm shooting for no reason I can tell, so hopefully reliability enhancements as well. Plus phone gimbals are very...

That's a bargain if it comes with the Snapdragon 1 gen 3, which it should if it ships in the US.

I've bought stand-alone key packs where I only had to activate the key, not sign in with Microsoft beforehand.

The reason was incompatibility with some VBA macros. If you had the typical "middle manager 100k column spreadsheet that is their entire career" setup, having one macro that doesn't return the same result it did in the 32 bit version, that was too much of a problem for IT to deal with, so the...

It's also vastly cheaper than buying another mirrorless camera body and IMO graded output actually looks better than I get off an action camera (e.g. GoPro).

I don't know if Outlook works. I assume that it doesn't work any worse than any other version of Outlook, but I refuse to support it and I don't install it if I'm given a choice in the matter. Office 2007 used to be my path of least resistance for home users that whined about not having Word...

MotionCam works extremely well for people with high end Android devices. It allows your phone camera to output video in editing-friendly codecs like ProRes. A big reason why I never messed with my phones before in terms of their capabilities as cameras is that they don't work the same way as my...

Office 2007 lost access to its "powered by Bing" clipart library today. It is no longer fully functional. Office 2007 was also the last version of Office that worked without any activation nonsense. Pour one out for the last version of Office that wasn't completely stupid.

I have a pair of ancient Norco 24 bay SAS chassis. They were originally meant to have a PC in them, but at this point they are drives-only enclosures. Each of them currently has one backplane that doesn't work and given how long I've had these things, I expect that more will break down as well...

The problem with the HC4 is that it's not going to have fast LAN access. You can get a USB to 2.5GbE NIC and that's a start, or sacrifice an m.2 port for 10GbE by an adapter that costs 150% of the board cost. I'm also under the impression that LM wouldn't be terribly comfortable setting up a...

They just had to have the prestige hardware out for the Olympics and now they're not worried about the rest.

I charge people so doing favors where I can isn't a burden.

Depending on what I'm doing, maybe I am and maybe I'm not.

45drives is offering an 8 3.5" Bay SAS chassis for $600. It supports an ITX motherboard and FlexATX PSU. https://store.45homelab.com/presale/hl8 I have a line on another Lenovo SR630v1. Dual 500W platinum PSUs, 4xu.2, 8xSAS, 2x10GbE + 4xGbE and 80(!) 2GHz threads for $400, and I can use the...

In the Windows 11 thread, I mentioned that I create a folder on windows computers called c:\bin, which is where I stow primarily stand-alone or portable tools that don't really go anywhere else. There are a few exceptions to this; some things get can get copied elsewhere, but here's a quick...

I'm 99% sure it's the same guy as last time. I won't have him belittling my Yazidi faith!

Well now I am sad that I don't get to argue with the evangelical Hindu any more.

I just noticed that Amazon has a new thing called Rufus (which means "Red-Haired" as in "beat him like a red-headed stepchild"), which for some reason is its answer to Gemini or Grok or Copilot. I'm not sure WHY Amazon needs an AI assistant, but it officially has one, and it's different from...

LM, does your goofy NAS have a free m.2 slot?

There's a company called GeekWorm that makes a KVM over IP, which apparently does support remote power control. Only problem is that it's kind of expensive for a device that doesn't even come with the Raspberry Pi it needs to operate.

OK, here's my quick guide to making Windows 11 suck less. I worked this out during a class session with some guys who just wanted a functionally better generic installer. 1. Use the Schneegans.de Autounattend.xml generator. The link is to the setup I used. This sets the classic context menu...

Isn't previous state functionally the same thing for you?

Does it not obey its firmware configuration? Is this a major concern? Surely it's on a UPS, right?

That is a very weird problem to not catch prior to release. I still haven't pulled the trigger on my upgrade yet. I know the X3D products won't do anything for me but there have already been slight price cuts on 9000 series Ryzen in a few places.

78. LUXURY!

Check out the Youtube channels NASCompares and ServeTheHome; they both have a large number of reviews for modest systems that can handle 10Gb connectivity + a good number of SATA ports. 15W should be attainable even with an Intel CPU, albeit probably not with 10GbE running.

One of my students put me on to WindHawk, a customization interface for Windows 11. This tool has many modules for things like restoring the Windows 7 Explorer View or the Windows Vista taskbar, and in some cases can apply different visual styles to third party applications as well. I tried it...

That explains Florida and Arizona. Some day soon those people will be longing for the livable winter warmth of Michigan and Minnesota, though.

I got used to high temperatures years and years ago. My partner has as well, though it took her every bit of four years to get there. That may just be one of the special powers we subatomic particles have.

I probably won't see indoor temperatures under 80F until mid-October but that has less to do with the computers (My workstation, two other desktops and the file server) and more to do with being on the top floor of a very well insulated building with unfortunately poor airflow due to window...

I don't use 2.5GbE anywhere. I have a 1GbE switch and three systems with 40Gb NICs