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Everything in my house is 802.11ac aka Wifi 5. Apparently the Wifi 7 standard was ratified a couple weeks ago. My partner wants me to replace all my gear now because "It's outdated." I tried to explain to her that there's nothing in the house right now that can USE Wifi 7 and anyway it's not...

Buy a straight-up SAS controller please. People can't even get a USB to fully implemented RS232 adapters that work every time. If you have to dedicate a $100 ebay special desktop to running the SAS controller, so be it, but you definitely don't want to lose precious hours of your life trying to...

What do you tell the folks who can't afford $4k lenses at that point? Go be poor someplace else?

I've seen completely random shorts between chassis and mainboard reset a CMOS battery. Your symptoms sound like a drained CMOS battery, especially the time change. You definitely do have a little coin battery on your device somewhere, but some systems are pretty good at hiding them.

I think they'll exist for a while yet, if only because everybody else in the world is used to dealing with the idea that the physical SIM is the only thing they need to change their phone's identity. I'm sure every security agency and mobile carrier in the world wants them gone though...

Is this your LG? my guess is that you have a short somewhere. If you have any guesses as to the cause, you could try covering those areas with electrical tape.

$30/month unlimited everything? There is no better plan, at least not inclusive of data. On the other hand, my phones at least DO need a SIM. It might be because of the unusual nature of my phone plan, but I've been told I don't get to have an eSIM. I actually had a SIM physically fail last...

I am still on a Sprint employee plan. It has carried over to Tmo but if I need anything from the carrier, I can't go to a store for help. I have to call one specific person who can authorize sending me a new SIM or whatever. I think she's literally the only person I can talk to, because I've had...

I have zero social media. That's not an issue, but as things are, my phone has gotten its last OS update. Security updates end this year as well. That's the biggest problem. The battery is just mildly annoying. I used to end the day with around 45% of a charge remaining. Now it's more like 20%...

They're gonna be SAS. Almost ever SAS adapter you'll run across will be an LSI-something-or-ther whether it says Dell or HP or Lenovo on it. SAS host bus adapters are usually 8-lane cards and obviously it's better if you can find a 12Gbps SAS card than a 3 or 6Gbps version. A lot of cheap SAS...

More or less every "serious" lens Canon is making right now weighs in at well over that $2000 price point. Sure, there are some relatively affordable RF primes and that weird 3D stereo lens, but most everything (although not the 35mm and 50mm; the usual cheapies) that's /1.8 or faster? $2100...

Problem Steps Recorder and Wordpad are deprecated and supposedly will be removed in future Windows 11 updates. I use Problem Steps recorder a lot and really want it on computers I use. Further, deprecated tools don't stop working just because Microsoft stops including them. Windows Easy...

It works well for me, and I think it's incredibly useful to have the ability to change the entire personality of my phone to suit my needs. The contenders for me right now are the A54 ($450), the Xperia 1 v ($1000-ish) or whichever S24 offers a 1TB option (probably $1200+ on an Ultra body)...

Didn't Canonrumors get bought out a couple years ago? New guy may have some different priorities. And so might Canon, with all the cheapy-cheap telephoto options.

The #1 reason for the card slot is switching cards so I can back files up from my camera. I can copy over the .CR3s with a non-Canon 3rd party application using Wifi, but I'd rather just swap the cards since it's much faster to do that. Secondary reason is that I have a card full of...

I wasn't paid enough to make that my problem. I did the job I was paid to do. I copied the contents of one tape to a thumb drive after I recovered it and made sure that files opened. They didn't ask me to do anything else.

The divide isn't coastal. It's urban vs rural. Our natural resources are all out in the flyover places and all our economic might is concentrated in our big cities. We can't have one without the other. For the union to fracture, we would have to figure out how to restructure debts and ownership...

The S20 product line was the last Samsung S-series to have an SD slot and it also has more RAM than comparable newer S-series phones have, but my battery life isn't so great any longer and it's PROBABLY time to replace the phone. Looking at what's out there, I'm not a huge fan of Motorola...

Early last year, someone asked me to recover data off a TR3 that was written in 1999. Travan was a consumer format that was available in roughly the same time period as CD-R and their CDs were unreadable. I had a HELL of a time finding a copy of BackupExec 7.2 to handle the restore, but it...

The issue in the US in this point is not Trump. The ongoing nonsense isn't going to stop with him, even if he is not reelected. The position of the republican party at this point is that the will of the people is not as important as their rule over the people, and they're fully willing to...

The thing you are looking for is called LTO. You need to understand that you will need to buy multiple drives and that you will also want to preserve both a working PC and the relevant software to work the drive(s) you've chosen. LTO 5 is highly affordable for 1.5TB/tape and secondhand drives...

I'm sure it is, but there are plenty of BS features on GPUs that only a minority will use. Doesn't mean there's an excuse for not supporting it if every decent mobile device can do it without issue or complaint.

I'm just not willing to spend $500+ on crippled hardware. If Intel and pretty much every contemporary mobile SoC can handle 10 bit 422 HEVC in hardware, why the hell can't nVidia?

There's a certain level of aggravation in the low-cost slow aperture RF telephotos but $2000 seems reasonable for THAT much zoom range. The guys getting mad that it isn't able to keep up with $kidney-priced pro telephotos they want are perfectly free to go buy them. I had good enough weather to...

This might be of interested to LM. 4x10GBps SFP+, 1x2.5GbpsBaseT, 2x 2.5 SATA, 2x nVME, SFF 8087, USB C on a contemporary 8 core Celeron CPU. That's an awful lot of I/O for a small, dedicated server. Edit: Amazon Link.

There is no new manufacturing process. I think we're just doing more RAM and wider memory buses for this round.

nVidia is about to announce new RTX Super hardware at CES. AMD may have new cards coming as well. The 4070Ti Super has 16GB RAM and a not-crippled 256-bit memory bus for $800 MSRP and there are price cuts expected for the current 4080, 4070Ti and 4070 and probably on the AMD side as well. I...

Haven't gotten one yet. I'm probably waiting until spring to go visit my rack at this point.

You can use a media adapter to get your cables all on one standard and you'll probably have to manually assign the port speed on the switch rather than have it auto-negotiate. 10GbbaseT is kind of notorious for high power draw compared to 1Gb or 2.5Gb. Media adapters can be REALLY picky about...

I'm sure I CAN. The obnoxious issue is that the $800 cards don't do something the entry level Intel cards can.

You run the 2.5s to a 2.5Gb switch and SFP them to the bigger guy.

This guy give your 8x 10Gb SFP+ ports that'll negotiate down to 2.5Gb if you just want to deal with what you have now. For 100% more money, you can get one that has a brand name on it. The Trendnet DOES support management functions, so if you wanted to have one VLAN for your internet...

According to PugetBench, it seems that Resolve Studio works best on a 24GB Radeon 7900XTX, which is kind of interesting because its closest price competitor is the 4070 Ti, which is considered by most metrics a mid-tier card. This generation of GPUs is insane. I want an Arc for hardware codec...

You could also potentially apply for a student visa. My older brother found a WFH job with a decent salary, moved to Prague and started taking classes at Charles University. He completed a BS, MS and PhD over the course of 13 years and since he now has a functional psychology practice, I believe...

FWIW I use Mellanox QDR Infiniband adapters between my main desktop and file server. The ~8m twinax cable running between them was the most expensive component. As Handruin said, that interface is fast enough that the network connection between the systems isn't the bottleneck, but rather the...

I'm under the impression that anything with *Star in its name is carrying the IBM/Hitachi legacy forward, but I still prefer not to deal with WD. My relationship to WD has been marred since the days when drives were measured in the 10s of megabytes.

True story: Las Vegas in theory has an Amtrak stop. The "stop" is a bus that takes you to goddamned Arizona to get on or off a train that runs to transit hubs in San Francisco and Denver/Chicago. It's also off Freemont Street, the "old strip" which isn't particularly easy to get to or close to...

My issue with Toshiba drives in general is that its warranty service is trash. Kind of the opposite of WD, where the drives are born trash and die trash, but at least they make it easy to replace their garbage-hardware. Toshiba drives are a black hole where you send something out and never get...

Buffalo NASes run Linux and it's REALLY likely that it's just using LVM. You have two big challenges. The first is that you have to figure out the interleave order of your drives. Once that's been determined, it's mostly just a matter of patience as whatever software package you use to attempt...

I have 18 tabs open looking at different products right now, LM. I am looking. Do you have a 4x or larger slot you aren't using?

Here is a PCIe 3.0 x1 card to supply 7 USB 3.0 ports and here is one that supports 5Gbps USB 3.2. If you're dead set on getting external access to a high speed interface, you might need to look at a thunderbolt adapter + dock instead.

At a guess, Via and Renasas didn't care to build a reference board or offer a newer chipset? For USB 3.x, I think ASmedia is the most common chipset.

Do you have a 10Gbps USB 3.x device that you're worried about? PCIe 2.0 will give you 8Gbps, which is plenty for everything but a new SSD or card reader. Here's this guy. He's in Belgium, but that's 1x 10Gbps type A port on a PCIe 3.0 1x card with an ASMedia 3142 controller. My experience is...

My partner convinced the Event Management people she works for to hire her to do art design work. They bought her a prebuilt at her request, although in all likelihood she's going to do everything on her M1 Macbook. She just wants a gaming PC and this is an excuse to get her hands on one...

If you bought it in 2019, it's almost certainly still under warranty. I'm sure you could get it replaced.

I'm just not enough of a fan of the P-core E-core nonsense to look at Intel. I understand why it makes sense for gamers. I am not that.

There ARE such cards. Startech and Inateck are brands I've known to make them for years, with many less expensive cards from weirdo Chinese brands promising much better specs and features for around half the price. USB hubs are fine for a lot of things. The places where they fall down are...

Rail works great on the east coast of the US because there's a major city every 40 miles or so from Boston to Washington DC. In that corridor, there's already plenty of good and useful rail service. Having rail service from Ontario to Vancouver likewise makes sense because some crazy huge...

Yeah. I'll probably wash an NVMe drive sooner or later regardless. I'm going to start pulling my oldest 4TB S4510s. I remember paying $1200 apiece for those guys and I'm just replacing them with new (unused) ones. The new ones are under $300 apiece. I'm thankful for how much prices have come...

This is actually good to know, when on some future day I wash an NVMe drive instead of just a crappy USB one.