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I don't know when Lightroom was updated but now you can just mask an element in a photo and make it go away. No photoshop required. And then apply that edit to every photo. I took some concert photos where there was a rag sitting on stage the entire time and in every frame. It was a one-second...

That's not actually a reinstall situation. There's a tool called mbr2gpt you can use if you are still on MBR disks. Otherwise, you just have to pop in your firmware and track down whichever of the 40 different things the TPM emulator dingus is called and enable it. Windows doesn't actually care...

Microsoft has apparently restarted its Insider Update channel for Windows 10. Makes me think there's a big subset of customers who have gone ahead and said "not no, but hell no" to a Windows 11 migration.

I went ahead and made a game thread in the pub just to keep this to bitching about nvidia and intel like normal.

Just to keep the stuff out of the video card thread. Marvel's Midnight Suns is free on Epic Right now, if you are a person who played and like the Firaxis X-Com games. I always check Epic and Amazon Games every week became none of my other friends remember to do that and get mad when they miss...

My partner has re-purchased Skyrim on every platform, every time it has been released. Same thing with the Bethesda Fallout games. I mentioned this somewhere else, but doing the math from her reported play-times across Playstation, Xbox, Switch and PC, she's spent a meaningful portion of her...

That's on the specific sellers, a bit like blaming Ebay or Craigslist for sellers there. G2A is weirdly big enough to offer buyer protection, which is often not the case from other ventures that sell grey-market Microsoft keys. I've never bought a game through it though, which I understand to...

As usual, my caveat is that I really don't care how well games work. Do they mostly work? That's close enough for me. Developers will sort it eventually. Intel GPUs probably are vastly better on Windows than Linux, driverwise, just for the usual reasons around the size of the market and the...

In fact, if knowing about G2A.com saves you $150+, I ask that you go to your local club and leave $20 on the rail for whichever tatted goth borderline personality disorder-having princess most tickles your fancy. This is the way.

nVidia is going to have the high end. It has been conceded by everyone else. nVidia will also charge a small fortune for everything it makes and it has definitely decided to do so. Cost is not an issue, but even then, you aren't buying the giant 3-slot GPUs, so you must have a limit as well. My...

The kind where I absolutely do not care if Microsoft ever makes a dollar again. Give that money to somebody you like, like strippers.

Intel provided a ton of info on Xe2 yesterday, including a bunch of architectural changes that should improve compatibility, but more official clues about what Battlemage will be offering, with the mid-range SKU, the B580, being approximately what an A770, but priced at $200, can do right now...

Buy Windows from g2a.com. It'll be around $20. You can even get a perpetual Office license at the same time. The licenses that are being sold are either meant to be sold in international markets (China, India) or they're being sold out of someone's Action Pack sub and either way Microsoft cannot...

Apparently Lunar Lake notebooks will ship with entirely integrated RAM, either 16 or 32GB, and don't quite live up to the performance of AMD's AI 300 mobile NPUs.

By reputation, Ryzen 7000 is a massive PITA to keep cool. Its heat spreader is thought to be too thick and may act as an insulator. AMD Expo is likewise kind of half baked compared to XMP for Intel and based on my relatively limited experiences with AM5, it's pretty common to see systems revert...

Microsoft itself made a thing called PC Manager. I would think that something called PC Manager is something they would just put in Windows, but no, it's a stand-alone thing you can get through the Windows Store. It does a lot of things we might've had CCleaner do before it became terrible, but...

LM is gonna be even madder about the Canon R1 since the rumors are now saying it's a 24MP quad-pixel AF. Not even 30MP. It's barely a spec bump over the R3.

At least one of my cats would probably try to eat it.

Here is a fun thing that I just discovered: Samba supports Windows Previous Versions. This can be really interesting when combined with your zfs or btrfs snapshots. I'd never even considered whether or not Previous Versions worked or not, but there it is, and not terribly difficult to set up...

This little guy looks super cool for those of us who actually shoot video. Cheap, too.

Matrox still makes video cards. I bought a couple during the pandemic when they were some of the cheapest options to get a graphics card, but their main use is video wall setups now. They're pathetic for gaming/3D needs. The easiest way to get them is on eBay, second hand.

My father travelled his whole life and now he doesn't want to go anywhere he can't drive in less than a couple hours. He's also a guy who doesn't want any help for anything he knows how to do himself, and he's a guy who has learned how to do more or less anything that has to do with home...

It really sucks trying to buy a gift for someone well off enough to just buy whatever they want the instant it crosses their mind.

What it sounds like to me is that anyone with a better than iGPU setup will want their graphics hardware to handle all that stuff, but for APUs, SoCs and Intel's weirdo Big.little nonsense, NPUs make a lot of sense.

I think somebody at Canon has looked at what it's doing and decided that there are sweet spots at 24 and 45MP and those are good enough for most purposes. I definitely don't get a whole lot out of the extra pixels from the R7 vs the R6. At least not most of the time. We still don't have R5ii...

Apparently, NPUs are meant to consume less power than GPUs, and to fall into the arena of weird background stuff that a traditional CPU wouldn't be good at doing, which mostly fall into the category of real time processing of video (e.g. augmented reality) or sensor data. I don't think most...

I think desktops are supposed to shove NPU stuff onto the GPU, so I suppose it's a question of what the GPU can do? I genuinely don't know if I care or not. Are we going to start to run localized LLMs Real Soon Now? I'm assuming anyone with decent graphics card probably has hardware that blows...

AMD officially announced Ryzen 9000 over the weekend, claims that the NPU in its next processors is 10% faster than the one in Snapdragon X Elite and supposedly has 10 - 20% better IPC than Ryzen 7000. It also made a commitment to Socket AM5 until at least 2027.

The A770 has been a great bargain IMO, but I got one cheap as well. I think you have to have at least some interest in it outside gaming needs to see it as worthwhile hardware. $200something is a crazy good deal for one.

Quality!

Brother is my go to for printers under almost all circumstances. I even like its multifunction inkjets and believe me that I do not say that lightly. The printer repair people I know don't like them but from talking to them it sounds like HP printers are just more profitable for them. I like...

GoG is wonderful. Highest marks. The actual good guy of digital storefronts.

Amazon and Google at least use custom hardware. Amazon runs a ton of systems on ARM based servers. Google users DC power instead messing with switching PSUs, but I think they're still running x86 mostly. I've seen CPU and GPU compute racks, even in the relatively small colo where my stuff...

The USA was about to impose a 25% tariff on certain high tech parts, most notably GPUs, starting in a couple weeks. They decided to wait a year. Hopefully we all have our 5090s by then. Also hopefully nvidia will finally implement hardware codecs for HEVC 10-bit like every ARM SoC and Intel...

Give my plastic all day every day. It's practical. LG sold a few phones with leather backs as well. I don't like leather. It holds smells and I think that's gross, but if someone needs a more premium option, it's an easy alternative. Just miss me with that glass shit.

There's always Fuji?

This actually hurts my heart. At least your upload speed isn't garbage. DSL where I live is usually rate limited to 5Mbps up.

sed, The Democrats should've at least at held a primary to have some meaningful policy discourse. The GenZ I run with mostly can't stand Biden as an out of touch papaw and I'll admit that he's been entirely too tolerant of Lekud's actions in Palestine. "Active participant in genocide" is not a...

I don't actually care. The EU has mandated user serviceable batteries. That doesn't happen on phones that are glass on all sides and I'll be happy to see those abominations die. The EU is of course the only regulator in the world that actually cares about consumer or end user experience.

Since the outer doors on my apartment building lock and I hate dealing with that, I have most things delivered to a business where I have keys that's down the street. Maybe 5% of my deliveries happen outside business hours but the location is unambiguous and generally secure. If the package...

Prime has benefits I don't get to use, like discounts at Whole Foods, but I love my fast shipping and consider that worthwhile enough on its own. If somebody tells me GrubHub is the reason my prime bill has to go up, that's a different story. For now I'm glad to have it.

I use food delivery services to get meals to far flung friends, actually. Given my friends are younger and not established in their lives, sending someone a couple cartons of Chinese food on a move-in day or during finals week is usually highly appreciated. A couple years ago, I used Boomerang...

It's basically a front-end to chocolatey/WinGet plus a lot of powershell registry and group policy tricks. One interesting thing about it compared to Chocolatey, though, is that it runs some installers in contexts other than the computer administrator account when people have observed issues...

Amazon Prime members get Grubhub+ as a standard benefit now. I have never ordered prepared food delivery to my house. Groceries sometimes, but never food. But I do find myself sending food to other people from time to time. Also, I pay $150/month for 2.5Gbps down/50Mbps up on Comcast Business...

I just have a box of cables. For a while, every time I bought a specific model of Lenovo Ideapad, it would come with a brand new HDMI cable and also a generic 32GB USB 3 thumb drive. I wound up buying dozens of that one model of Ideapad, so for the time being I just have dozens of new HDMI...

If you want high refresh to work, you need to make sure everything in the signal chain supports it. It's a real dummy moment when you find someone with a $1000 Samsung G9 and an RTX 4080 who can't be megafancy because they're using a 10 year old HDMI cable. Freesync is an AMD technology that...

You can just ignore it or turn off the widgets. I'm not sure what Copilot is supposed to do either. Or why I should want to pay for Gemini or a subscription tier of Alexa, for that matter.

MacOS is a commercial Unix. Partition assignments can be much more flexible but OS recovery can also be more obnoxious. For example you can connect one Mac to another and just treat that second system as a disk drive, but the pain point is that in many cases you need a Mac to fix a Mac, and...

Signal65.com has a whitepaper about Qualcomm Elite SoCs. Short version: They're hot. They spank a 12th gen Intel low voltage CPU and trade fairly well with M3 Apple Silicon with the caveat that Apple is generally faster per core but the ARM SoCs tend to have more cores.