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You might want to check GoG.com. I know bought my favorites of the Ultimate games (4 - 6) for something like $5.

I know a lot of people sitting on Ryzen 3 systems with GTX1660s and waiting for SOME kind of reasonable replacement to come about. I'm telling them to look at the A750 or A770, but most of them are saying that it's not enough of an upgrade vs what they have They want something from AMD or...

4070 is released. It's a little faster than a 3080 and it's the closest thing to a reasonably priced Ada card but it's STILL $600. nVidia is dreaming if it thinks people are clamoring for a 4060 that's still hanging around the $500 price point, but that looks to be the case.

Sometimes you need a crappy Gigabyte Power supply and also 24 cans of refried beans I guess.

Newegg has a Taco Bell section.

It's a frequent subject of discussion on the makemkv forums. I have a Pioneer drive that works for that purpose, but the only 4k BDs I've ripped myself are the Lord of the Rings movies. The only other disc I've done since 2020 is the BD release of "Einstein on the Beach" since there was an...

The outer door on my building locks with a key code and there's one for the parking lot as well. The closest thing I have to an enemy in the building is the judgmental Dominican lady who keeps calling my roommate a hoe for daring to show off her tattoos.

I had a home invader today. I unlock the door to my apartment if my roommate borrows my car, since my housekey is on the same keyring as my car key. She had a job interview this morning, so she's off doing that, and I was sitting at the desk in my bedroom, working. My downstairs neighbor's two...

I don't trust external hard drives for anything but temporary needs. I have found 2.5" drives to be more reliable for those needs, but the largest mechanical 2.5" drives are 5TB and I believe those are SMR. I know there's a cost for a small NAS, but I'd probably look at a 2 or 4 bay NAS for long...

For reference, it's possible to buy an LTO5 SAS drive for $100 - $200 and 1.5TB tapes can be had for $10 each in bulk. The costs become similar to buying a high capacity single hard drive, but tape is more affordable as need for capacity increases.

There is currently a gold standard for optical drives, which are actually older BD-RW drives or units that support flashing back to older firmware, since most newer drives refuse to make bit-perfect copies of 4k BDs. "White book" CDs usually didn't have the screwy structural issues that are used...

As the superuser for a whole bunch of Google Workspaces, that may or may not be the appropriate answer. But Nearby Share can be a fantastic for copying over a 300MB PDF or to to share a bunch of photos without needing to know someone's contact details. I've discovered that many, many, MANY...

Nearby Share has finally been implemented for Windows. No more sending everything to Google Drive first. Hooray!

It's a longstanding tradition and sometimes a matter of law in many European cities that the tallest building is the city's cathedral. This is something of a joke, but also still very true in most places that aren't big enough to have skyscrapers.

They're letting you live in a building taller than the highest spire of the biggest church these days? That doesn't sound very European.

My view of Lake Michigan would be really cool if some asshole didn't put another apartment building between me and the water. ;)

Older LTO drives are not terribly expensive and the tapes are very reasonably priced. I *have* heard of big providers losing end user data, but never for big customers. There are definitely some famous cases as well: Myspace, LiveJournal and Yahoo are all fantastic examples of enterprises that...

It absolutely is, especially for people used to mobile devices. This is also why I absolutely hate OneDrive on Windows.

People do not understand storage.

Bad guys compromised WD's cloud storage services and WD doesn't know what they took yet.

Cosplay is an enjoyable hobby for a lot of people, especially those with a background in fabric arts, makeup or crafting. It can also be a way to stand out for people trying to raise their profile on social media, and there's a path to success as an e-girl or adult model that starts with a...

I do a lot of things that add up to a full time job, which is more or less how my professional life has always worked.

Astro is something I'd love to do but the Chicago area is the most light-polluted place on Earth. There's a pink-purple haze everywhere within probably 100 miles of the city, even on the darkest nights. I saw a pro yesterday taking cosplay photos who had three R5s strapped to his body and my...

I don't even want ONE phone. I don't think anyone should buy iOS devices. They bought me a company mobile phone some years ago. I just never turned it on and it was eventually taken to replace another phone when it was broken. My company does not have my cell phone number. They have the number...

My company would subsidize only if I accepted an iphone.

It was a T-mobile MVNO that offered an unlimited* data plan for $30/month if paid annually. I'm currently on a Sprint employee plan, but there are more and more caveats to that plan and what I can do with it, as well as some new fees that raised the price for my phone plan above $30/month I've...

Samsung says S22s get Exynos in all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and whatever Russian satellites. The S23 does have a Qualcomm SoC in Euroland, though. Are you sure you didn't get an imported US phone? There is some demand for those, as they're widely known to be the superior option. I...

It's not that hard to stitch a pano shot. I had the opportunity to take some photos from the 20th floor of an apartment building in Tampa. I used about 60 shots to get a nighttime view of the bay. I guess it's neat to do it in camera, or if it can be done for a single subject, but I wouldn't...

They're supposed to be a compromise between the U (ultra low voltage) and H (High performance) mobile CPUs. but the NUC is technically a desktop. They couldn't stuff the high performance mobile CPUs in a device that could literally be made out of heat sink? I'd rather have m.2 + 2.5" drive...

From everything I read about it, US S-series Samsungs have locked eSIM capability. It's not model specific. Snapdragon = no eSIM. I hope that's gotten better since the S20, but that's the explanation I was given. I believe that the Snapdragon SoCs have better support for US LTE and 5G bands...

Be happy there's a second drive option at all. The P series CPU is kind of a fail, too.

The 135/2 was giving a can't communicate with camera error that I couldn't clear. I took it to my local camera shop. They're looking at it. I like the Sigma 50/1.4 better than the Canon EF 1.2. That thing is pillow soft wide open. The Sigma is a favorite of mibe for almost all uses. The Canon...

I get to go to a professional basketball game tonight. We're getting waved through security by an executive for the team and we're allowed access to courtside before the game. I've been told that we can bring cameras, which are normally banned by the facility, and use them during practice AND...

The problem goes away if I shoot mechanical, but so does my ability to capture more than 10 frames in a second. If I use electronic first curtain or fully electronic, it's a progressively larger problem. Apparently Sony cameras don't have an issue with this. I don't know if that's because they...

Hilariously, a lot of phones in the USA with carrier specific models have eSim functionality blocked in the OS. This is particularly aggravating with Samsung because it makes phones with Snapdragon (good) or Exynos (not-so-good) SoCs. The Snapdragon models are only sold in the USA and Korea, and...

1/250 is pretty normal if I'm trying to freeze motion in bad light, which is usually the goal for a burst shot. I'm trying to get a stage dive in mid-air, glitter off the top of a snare drum, long hair flying around etc. Even 1/200 will probably result in a blurry mess for some of that stuff.

Tmobile uses a normal SIM that you could swap with any other normal carrier. If you buy from a carrier, it'll be carrier-locked until you complain enough to make them unlock it, and only if you aren't on a hardware purchase contract.

Stage lighting these days is usually but not always LED-based, but I'm finding that not all lights are ACTUALLY constant, even when the production people tell me they're using such and such LEDs that are 1KHz or 2KHz or whatever, and you have to remember that stage lights are often also moving...

The issues with hardware compatibility are largely gone since Sprint's CDMA network was retired and LTE and 5G carriers are essentially compatible other than specific outlier bands each carrier in the USA uses. OEMs don't have to make models with different transceivers any longer, so I'd fully...

Tmo will support the A-whatever. And it'll be a good phone with a great screen. Everything will be one step down from S-series at about half the price.

It's not from the objects moving too fast, but the lighting.

Rolling shutter is the bane of my concert shooting as well,

Back in April 2020, my apartment building had a fire in one of the units. I was on my elliptical when it happened, and I could just BARELY hear the alarm from that came from the other half of the building. The alarms on my side didn't go off. My place is a few blocks from the closest fire...

My roommate is on the other side of your position, jtr, which is also why I say "roommate" or "quasi-SO" rather than some term of greater endearment. She wants to remain independent in her life after learning the lesson that people take advantage if someone can provide, and that's something I've...

Apparently, nVidia has improved its hardware encoder to the point that anything Maxwell or newer (and not an -MX) can now encode five inputs simultaneously with NVenc. Before, the encoder could only handle three streams at once. No support any of the stuff I care about, but it's probably...

The California Zephyr (Chicago - San Francisco) is apparently the absolute jewel of functional Amtrak runs, although I've been told that doing it without getting a sleeper berth is a bad call. When my friend lived in Reno, she'd take the Reno - Denver leg to meet up in a place much cheaper for...

I have a friend in LA who is an employed as a TV comedy writer and my roommate knows a bunch of people who work for the Upright Citizens Brigade. One of the specific appeals of LA would be a guided tour of the various comedy clubs. I also have some San Fernando area contacts who would model for...

Isn't LaGuardia the second tier option for NYC anyway? Like flying in to Midway in Chicago or John Wayne in LA? I'm mildly annoyed that I've never been any farther into California than Lake Tahoe. I have friends in Southern California but between those people and the folks I know who are FROM...

Allegiant has regularly scheduled flights from Tampa, Clearwater and Orlando to South Bend International Airport, which is a hilarious name for an airport with three runways and nine gates. I'm perfectly happy going through O'Hare but taking off from SBN is a 15 minute walk to the train + a...

There's a lot wrong with Michigan, but the drive up the Eastern shore of the lake (roughly I-136 to US 31) is absolutely gorgeous and other than two weeks around the end of September, a clear and easy trip with scads of cheap vacation rentals and places to get interesting photos. I like to drive...