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Laundry and dishes are the absolute worst and they're both never-ending. I do believe my fob is actually waterproof though.

As an aside, I also wash the lock fob for my car with regularity and it ALSO seems to hold up to that level of contact with water without issue.

Cloud makes more sense than rolling out a private datacenter for companies that have scores or hundreds of employees. I agree at that scale. I can't remotely justify those costs when a shop is small enough that hosting costs could pay salaries that would meaningfully impact the head count of the...

Maybe start with cleaning contacts and see what happens?

Fingers crossed for an R6v3 when I get around to updating, although I suppose a feature like that will probably be reserved for the more expensive SKUs for at least the next couple generations. The 1DXmk3 is also a low-MP sports shooter and was fairly recently Canon's flagship, so there is...

Given how frequently I was the wad of USB drives I keep in my right front pocket, it's actually possible that it's fine if the drive is commercially produced as an external drive in the first place. I keep them all on lanyards but there's a good reason to have each of them and I had enough of a...

I have a TrueNAS back-end for the primary storage I have at my datacenter. It's easier to apportion file services for that than try to resize virtual drives. Since my native systems are all on the same 10Gbps switch, it's really hard to complain about performance with the TrueNAS VM mostly...

Not having to worry about banding on electronic shutter under cheap lights would make me a lot happier given my shooting needs, but I'm not buying a $6000 Sony just to get it. Maybe the R6 mk 3 or a Canon R1 will have it.

Toyota seems to be testing a hydrogen powered van that needs minimal changes to the rest of the vehicle's components, which might be of interest to some. I don't have a family and I don't feel the need to occupy any more space or use any more energy than I already do. I have a decent landlord...

Of course I can't charge a vehicle where I live. I rent. You can more or less assume that flyover states with ubiquitous single-party rule by the party of racism and incest are probably not going to do very much to help out anyone what ain't rollin' coal. Unfortunately, unless there's a vast...

Pretty much every time Tesla's real numbers of any subject are called into question, it's found that they're lying in a way that very obviously benefits the company, like VW's hype about its Diesel Engines levels of untruth. There is no world where I would trust its numbers about anything. It...

I suppose that it doesn't matter in commercial vehicles, but is anyone else bothered by the idea of buying any sort of car that will have its life limited to the charging capacity of its battery? I understand that a lot of electric cars are functionally boat anchors after five years simply...

QuickPath is the tech analogous to AMD Hypertransport. In my defense, I'm pretty sure it's also the interconnect for Intel Iris XE APUs.

It's a fun movie that leans heavily on the Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel character and her family . Ms. Marvel had a TV mini-series explaining the character and it was clearly intended for younger viewers; the actress playing the character actually writes the comics about her as well, but as the...

My partner worked an actual high society event and in mid-size music venues. Lighting in nightclubs and 300 seat theaters is never going to be good, even with f/1.8 lenses and bodies that manage 12k ISO in an acceptable fashion. She seems to love the RF 24mm on her R7. ~35mm is definitely a...

I swapped the 6650XT in my Ryzen 5900 system for an Intel A770. My partner brought home just under 700GB of photos from her five weeks in New York, Nashville and Boston and I'm really looking forward to seeing how much of a difference Quickpath makes for Lightroom AI Denoise. Most of them are...

The 7950X has faster cores and it's cheaper. It's the one I'd buy too. The two CPUs are a push on content creation benchmarks so IMO the deciding factors are the $100 lower price vs the 50W lower power draw.

... as long as your external I/O ambitions can be satisfied with a Thunderbolt port and you don't care about internal storage even a tiny bit.

Good to see you over here again Coug. I would've bet you'd go in for something a bit more medieval. Something hammer-y.

Intel seems to have dropped HEDT as a concept. My understanding is that too many users were buying Enthusiast CPUs and running them on workstation boards with big-boy I/O, so now you either get bragging rights CPU cores or lots of modest cores + decent I/O. And then there's the power draw. Intel...

I remember dark grey Mac portable in the early 90s but never actual black. I saw the drop in bandwidth but increased RAM. I figured they did that more to provide some extra capacity for a video framebuffer moreso than hedging against the bandwidth drop. It's probably both. Both Xeon and...

Neither of my AMD desktops has an ASMedia Controller listed in Device Manager nor any unknown devices.

The sales started in the middle of October. I've noticed that RAM, consumer SSDs and Zen 4 CPUs are exceptionally cheap right now. I'd like to see a current-gen GPU go on sale for a reasonable amount of money but I suspect there's a whole world of people who want nothing more than a $500 RTX 4070.

I don't have anything other that keyboard and trackball running through USB on anything. Sometimes I plug in a card reader, but only for as long as I need to read a card. This is also not anything I've noticed on either my workstation (Gigabyte TRX40) or spare PC (Some or other Gigabyte X570)...

It's not. I just saw three tech articles on the different sites that put the color front and center over anything else.

Finally and at last, computers are available in a new computer, which has apparently only recently been discovered. Prior to today, Apple laptops have been available in silver, white and briefly in grey and translucent candy colors. Today, after decades of research, Apple has finally developed a...

In what sense?

At this point, it is an examination of how people choose to buy computers, Ryzens included.

I think my Gimbal is rated for 2kg, which I know means I'm not running anything longer than a 24-70 on it with the bodies that I have. Actually, my partner is better than I am at running the Gimbal anyway. She can actually kind of run in the steadycam gait and I am NOT that coordinated. I've...

For those who were wondering, CougTek did get back to me today by e-mail. Hopefully, he'll pop in and give everyone a status update but if he doesn't, at least we can know he's OK up in the great frozen north.

Most people don't have any idea what they have. Home users usually buy for a price point, but even that can be a bad idea because home users will do idiotic things like buy computers from the Home Shopping Network or go out of their way to find the one and only 17" notebook that still has an...

Home users mostly use them as web/Facebook/word processing terminals at this point. This is a big reason why I don't have a problem advocating for ChromeOS devices. Even people who say things like "I use it for pictures" really mean that they're looking through photos they already have, rather...

I have a Surui ball head. x40something. My gimbal also works for that but not with a lens that big. Height adjustment is a common need in many places where I shoot. In an auditorium or stage setting, I may be up too high to want a camera another 60" higher, or I may just prefer to shoot up at...

I live in an apartment. I'm not that worried what happens to the blacktop. 😉 Coug shares his real name with a well known Quebecois musician but I think I see him on LinkedIn, something I'm not going to actually look at. As I recall, he joined some sort of IT firm after trying to get by on tech...

The Steam Hardware survey suggests that AMD is running on about 1/3 of gaming PCs as of September. Since Steam is practically the monoculture of PC gaming, it's a highly representative sample.

This is the Sigma but I was glad to find a place to try it out, given the rain and moisture we've had. I knew it was heavy (with my camera, about 8lbs) but I was thankful to have ledges and rails to shoot from after about my 10th shot. What I'm doing in that circumstance is close to sports...

300mm@2.8 is fucking perfect for getting gorgeous portraits of dancers on stage from 70 feet away, if nothing else.

I like to chuck mechanical drives off my 3rd floor balcony into the parking lot. They have to make the trip one way or other and usually some/most of the PCB doesn't survive the fall intact anyway. I can email Coug if you guys want.

I have Spotify because one of my customers pays for his employees to have it on a group plan. Although I do like how responsive the app is compared to Amazon Music, which is something I do pay to keep.

Actually, there's a standard for even higher density SSDs, called 3.S or 3.L, for when you really want a single 100TB+ drive right now. I'm sure Linus Tech Tips will be along in about a month making a video about how they built a new 32PB storage server with 64 of them that some memory...

There are also 30TB+ SSDs if you have any spare kidneys sitting around.

In my case, I detest gamepads and the model of relying on a manufacturer to provide legacy compatibility. Millions of Nintendo fans will be happy to sit and explain how aggravating is that Nintendo won't sell them old titles they've already bought on one platform or support them on newer...

A lot of gamers do incremental upgrades and have a mix of older and newer parts in their systems. 8GB RAM on a video card is absolutely normal if you just got one but up until recently, it's been considered the high end of such things. The issue here is that the games that are being ported...

There's a massive complaint at the moment about how intensive the hardware requirements for new some games are, but the biggest source of this seems to be games titles that initially target the Playstation 5. Alan Wake 2 minimum spec is an RTX 2060 and Core i5 7600 and recommended is RTX 3070...

I paid for a year of Dr. Amy's graduate school.

Windows S mode is a reduced functionality mode of operation where only Apps installed from the Microsoft Store or already included in the system image can be used. It is most often found on less expensive notebooks or on managed systems belonging to a school or similar institution. The normal...

I have a chance to get a Sigma Sport 120-300/2.8 for $600. It's second hand and I don't exactly need it but that's such a good deal that I'm not sure I can pass it up. I've been looking at either the RF 28-70/2 or 70-200/2.8 for a while now but 120-300s are in the same usually unreachably...

Try to find a used Shield if you can, or a MiTV or the relatively new ONN AndroidTV box. A lot of other boxes are too suspect to be considered.

Once again, MAC is an acronym for media access control. 😋 Everyone has plenty-strong CPUs for local processing if you need it, but basically the only people who care are doing engineering and content creation workloads. Even gamers don't particularly get bottlenecked by their processor unless...

If you're not doing much local processing, an ARM CPU is definitely fine. New Intel 14th gen CPUs are actually exceeding the thermal loads of the brand-new Zen 4 Threadrippers, which is so far beyond ridiculous that those things don't even merit attention as a mainstream product IMO. Intel is in...