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One of my students brought this to my attention: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil This is a powershell script you can run as easily as irm https://christitus.com/win | iex as administrator. The command brings up a long list of installable software, but also notably includes some...

There was a leak of Google Documentation over the weekend that seems to thoroughly describe how its Search functions work right now. It's an interesting read. The site is run by some kind of SEO goon, but the information is still valuable since Google is in the process of making its search...

Some years ago, when I moved from Comcast consumer service to Comcast Business service, I had to be put through Retentions. Her response was "Hm. Well, I've never seen this before but I have to read this to you." At least she got a laugh out of it. Most communities around mine have some kind...

At this point, I have a phone set aside for photography functions. It has a 1TB card and I use it with a USB-C to HDMI capture device so that I can display my viewfinder to a model and/or shoot video and photos at the same time and so I can swap it back and forth with my camera to get pictures...

The problem with that particular bug is that Windows doesn't quite come equipped with tools to fix it. It should; we can in theory re-size partitions in Disk Management, but doing so depends on how OEMs decided to create partition layouts and resizing partitions is a big hairy problem, as is the...

For me, the justification for microSD is the ability to switch the personality of the device. I had a card full of media, mostly music, that I kept on hand for entertainment and I'd keep an empty one in my phone when I was traveling to swap back and forth with my camera so that I could sync data...

Love lives are something we all have to figure out on our own but I will say that I put part-time job hours into dating apps for years and that me vastly more harm than good, and I'm different enough from other people who live where I do that going to a bar wasn't going to work either. Whether...

I am perfectly willing to buy used drives, but nothing I store only exists in only one place for more than maybe a single day.

I usually try the offline updater before I take that step, because I most assuredly have it on a flash drive if not running on something-or-other on whatever LAN I happen to be using. It's been months since I've had to nuke a SoftwareDistribution folder. This might be a case where there are...

sed, I make enough money that I don't have to worry about expenses but I feel where you're coming from. I have no desire at all to own a home, but my rent has increased by about 30% in the last three years, and I always justify the two bedroom place where I live by offering to share my space...

I see now that this is the second generation version. The original one had dozens of little 40mm fans.

DIY Perks also did a really cool video using a Baguette pan for building high CRI string LEDs to make a light panel bright enough to make an artificial sunlit window. I'd worry about the long term lifespan of that many 40mm fans though. All any 40mm fan has done for me is suck and die.

You have to choose between the quality of the screen and your desire for an SD slot. Samsung devices have superlative screens even on their crappy phones. Sony does not have that, especially in terms of overall screen brightness. Not that you'll be able to tell, because no mainstream brick and...

The phone you probably want is a Samsung A53 or A54. The A35 does not have a card slot, but the A34 did. You can also buy buy one of Sony's premium Experia models, but those only get two years of software updates at most and have inferior screens to Samsung's. Sony's newest flagship model, the...

That is a failure on your part, because it most assuredly does.

https://download.wsusoffline.net/ After it's downloaded and set up, they're there in the installation folder. It should be self explanatory.

It's exactly what it says on the label: It downloads the individual Windows updates for a given platform and stores them locally, so that they can be executed individually on the client instead of trusting Windows automatic updates to do whatever it's going to do. There's a downloader executable...

I keep mine on max battery saving mode, so it only charges to 80%. This has been an option on Galaxy S models at least as far back as the S20.

My partner convinced one of the people she works for that she needed a pair of 32" Ultrasharp displays. She legitimately does do graphics work, print layouts etc. Does that need a 4k display? Kinda doubtful, but we got 'em. The TV is where PC games get played.

Research says it's because I have three displays plugged in to it. There are rules about when the hardware will even attempt to power down the video card, but since there are two 4k displays and a 4k TV connected to that thing, it's just not going to happen without some kind of update to...

One thing I am noticing about the A770 is that it is using around 40W just idling. I thought maybe it might be because that system is also my Plex Server and therefore has transcode jobs but no, I killed Plex and all the Adobe stuff on that system and the GPU still running kind of warm. On the...

It's hard to call a brand new CPU obsolete just because another company is doing something different. Intel knows that its package is the definition of x86 compatible and we have no idea how it compares in real world usage to Qualcomm, especially with the Prism compatibility layer that more or...

The Galaxy Tab S9 has a keyboard cover if you want it and can be had with 11, 12.5 and ~15" screens and a Snapdragon 1 gen 2 SoC. It can run DeX just fine and there is a lot of value in the S pen if for example you like the idea of having a drawing tablet permanently handy. I've said before that...

dd, I am completely serious when I say that a premium 2 in 1 Chromebook might be just the thing for you. I'm familiar with the Samsung Chromebook Go as a 4G internet-connected device, but I have to imagine that we'll be seeing some new devices with the Snapdragon Elite SoCs soon as well. I...

Up to now, there have been pricing barriers to entry on AM5 CPUs; there hasn't been a credible budget CPU, AM5 motherboards were mostly premium SKUs and DDR5 is of course still kind of expensive. I am excited to see that I can finally get a mainstream desktop out the door for around $600. The...

Not sure if anyone cares, but I'm seeing Ryzen 7500f CPUs on AliExpress for $125, with entry level motherboards around the $100 mark. I was planning to build someone an AM4 system this week, but if the only extra cost is ddr4 vs ddr5, I might as well go AM5. Took long enough.

Geekbench is a synthetic workload, so we'll have to wait for products to get in people's hands before we really know if the performance claims are real or just a pile of marketing.

Most people think phone cameras are the #1 reason to buy a premium phone, but it really does cost money to get a high quality display + a high end SoC. There are places that tear down and estimate manufacturing costs; flagship Samsung S-series Ultra phones have somewhere around $650 worth of...

Microsoft had a big event today where it announced a bunch of new BS, including new Windows 11 features and AI nonsense and a crap ton of Snapdragon Elite X ARM-based Windows notebooks. Geekbench scores for the new Qualcomm SoCs make them compare favorably with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H on the low...

Apple doesn't make phones with a worthwhile operating system.

Sony has indicated that it has no plans to release the Experia 1 IV, its current flagship device, for the US Market; International versions won't have support for three common 5G bands used in the USA. Sony phones are almost impossible to find at retail already and no US Carrier resells them. If...

For ~$650, you can get a new 8TB u.2 Intel drive with TLC NAND, although I think the overlap between people looking for 8TB u.2 drives and people willing to accept a 6TB SMR drive in a 15mm 2.5" package is probably pretty small.

Apple's architecture doesn't differentiate between system RAM and GPU RAM. The GPU just takes what it needs from the overall pool of what's available. The more RAM you have, the better all of that is going to work.

SMR drives have a place, especially as second-line backups and data hoarder media vaults. Hopefully, that $250 MSRP will get discounted to something realistic pretty quickly.

I would rather have invested $1500, which is what that RAM cost in February.

Are you still hoping to see something more than 45MP? Looking for Quad-Pixel AF? Other than missing the digital shoe and the lens level correction some of the newer bodies have, the R5 still seems like a dream body to me.

The RAM is for my colo systems. I have a total of 3 SR630s and they're going to have 1TB RAM each.

SSDs follow DRAM pricing patterns. We just happen to be on the high side of the seesaw at the moment. (He said, having just coughed up $3k for 3TB of ECC DDR4).

That's 50% better than the 1dx mk3! Canon definitely has different priorities from Sony and Nikon but with the R3 as sport-centric as it is, I was thinking the R1 would be a more well-rounded device. It may still be. Worst case scenario is that Canon makes a camera you won't buy. C'est la vie.

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.