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I'm a little bit surprised you'd chose a 27" screen. I've had 32" monitors for 15 years at this point.

There's a bit of a curve in this because there is no One True Display that has both extremely high refresh AND high color accuracy. You usually get one or other the other. Samsung hauls out weird high end displays that kinda-sorta do both for big trade shows, but then they use nonstandard ultra...

dd, give Puss in Boots 3 a shot. Not kidding. I saw it in the theater AFTER I'd pirated it. It's enjoyable for both kids and adults. I'm obviously a pretty hardcore Marvel person. I go to midnight showings and I also usually go as part of a group to see them as well. We average a theater...

This is another one of those "long memory" things, but Canon used to package a gallery and light editing cool with cameras in the Win98/NT4 days that didn't put things under Pictures in My Documents. It was a big source of irritation for me because the only other software I regularly saw doing...

Honestly even 75Hz is subjectively noticeable.

I have a hard time taking Linus Sebastian seriously. I know he has smart people working for him but he's also the muppet version of gamer stereotypes, and very often his non gamer content boils down to "watch what happens when we spend the GDP of Burkina Faso on hardware." But I have been...

Ant-Man Quantumania is maybe the most 3D trippy thing Marvel has done since the first Doctor Strange movie If you are a fan of substances, take substances. It's also doing a whole space opera story rather than a comedy heist like the other entries in the series.

I can only respect the corporate grudge. Fatwa on all the bastards. It makes sense that would be an issue with DPP, but I've never considered using it. I remember some precursor Canon camera software that wanted to keep had data somewhere under Program Files YEARS after user directories were...

I've had absolutely zero problems with Sigma Art or Sport lenses. In fact, I found that I like Sigma's 50/1.4 better than the melted-butter soft Canon EF 50/1.2 and the Sigma Sport EF 70-200/2.8 more than the Canon L version (FREELY admitting the RF L version is lust-worthy though). I know and...

Mostly I work with Farmer's agents and independents, but the sites are names you'd recognize if you've ever worked with an independent insurance agent.

Virtual CPUs are only ever about 60% as fast as real ones but if I had to guess I'd say you're getting more headroom in your thermal budget to hit higher clocks if you aren't using them.

The thing I dislike about Sony is screwy the control interface is. Sometimes touch works and sometimes not. Canon cameras more or less work along the same intuitive lines as operating a mobile device, and it's pretty straightforward to operate it with the hard controls or the display. Sony...

We lost the Chicago area Fry's years ago. We still have two Microcenters though. They're well worth visiting, especially for the novelty of being able to see computer cases prior to purchase, but the value is somewhat questionable since both Chicago and Westmont, Illinois have rather local high...

I already had EF lenses from the 5D I had been using. Granted that most of them are Sigma rather than Canon, but the only thing Sigma really gives me to complain about is weight. Their optics are excellent. That predisposed me to stick with Canon, even if I'd need an adapter to use them on...

The sad thing is that some insurance agents I do for work just last week got instructions that they are to only visit certain insurers' sites with IE mode Edge. I tried to explain why this was a terrible idea in 2023 and yesterday I forwarded them the same news article about it going away. But...

The horror has finally come to an end.

It worked for cheapskate Dell and HP consumer desktops that were still shipping with HDDs in 2019. Kind of.

It should also be mentioned that nearly all internet security cameras that don't run through ONVIF route data through Chinese servers, since the common infrastructure APIs for that stuff are controlled by Chinese companies. Very few security camera systems talk to smart home systems directly...

You can either build a local IoT controller with an RPi or buy a device like a Hubitat Elevation. Or use a VM, I guess. Down side to building your own is that the USB transceivers for different protocols cost more than a Hubitat does. I have Google, Amazon AND Apple voice assistants in my...

Y'all need to be glad you ain't got workstation hardware. I almost never power off my Threadripper voluntarily but between the RAM, the Infiniband and u.2 HBAs, fresh boots are actually a little bit terrifying. There's probably a 3 minute period where my monitors are just black.

IMO RAID0 for capacity is the most valid reason to RAID0 anything at this point. The usage you are describing pretty closely mirrors how I handle things as well. Has anyone ever turned off the weird RAID0-with-an-Optane drive and found that SSD performance is absolutely trash thereafter? I've...

Yes, the RF 35/1.8. I bought it because it was well reviewed and 1.8 is normally fast enough for my needs. Even the quasi-macro is pretty handy to have for shots of objects. Nadia's theory is that it's meant to take pictures of food, which is as good as any. I just don't get why the AF is wonky...

The A6000 can't cut it in a nightclub, even with a Sigma 18-35/1.8 shooting wide open. It was still fun to play with and a nice upgrade from my Lumix GF2 as a small body and it was perfectly fine outdoors even at twilight. It just didn't handle the rapidly changing lighting conditions as well as...

Raid 5 will always be slower for writes than raid 0. You need Windows Server to get Raid 5/6 from Storage Spaces although you can it from fancy HBAs if the original owner paid the license fee for that capability.

M series bodies were so frustrating. It would've been just fine if Canon supported it, but even four years ago, it was on its way out in terms of lens releases. The appeal of the small body and lens is pretty clear but I wound up telling people to look at MFT if they really wanted small. Hard...

I think it's an excuse to ditch the R, which is an oddball option that will still be stinking up retail for a while yet, but the R7 is a better deal for the same money almost across the board. I'm glad they finally brought out an EF-S body alternative though. The M50 was an increasingly terrible...

The place my family lived in as a teen was like that. It was added on to so much that it wound up with multiple electrical panels and in a couple cases, something was on a breaker in a less-than-obvious panel. It had a downstairs finished basement that had been turned into a private apartment...

Just had to drive an hour to resolve a trouble call for an on premises server system, the document management system used by a paperless insurance agency. "It's been making a terrible beeping noise all morning! Also all our computers are down for some reason. Are those two things somehow...

You're between a rock and a hard place on latency, because it's sometimes true that lower latency RAM will be subjectively faster for actual applications in use vs. the higher throughputs, although it most favors gaming rather than content creation, which usually benefits from extra bandwidth...

Speaking of color processing, since almost no one makes presets for Capture One, I use a commercial application to take either Lightroom Presets or LUTs used by Resolve and Luminar, among others, to Styles that C1 can use. As a bonus, I get to apply the same color processing for video the same...

Based on everything I've read, you can take the XMP timings as fully applicable EXPO timings you can set by hand.

I I think Canon has really pulled ahead on autofocus, at least comparing an A7r4 to an R6 or R7. The R6 is particularly strong in low light; I use one in a, uh, nightclub all the time. Canon reproduces skin colors in a pleasing fashion. Sony's colors skew to slightly bluish and washed out...

I haven't had an opportunity to build one yet, though I have built a few 13th gen Intel systems with DDR5. I know the RAM struggle is real but given your use case, I'm sure I'd err on the side of capacity over performance, which might mean a move to that 1:2 timing that sounds unappealing...

What sort of heat compound are you using? What sort of HSF? The 7000 series are pretty well known for having an overly thick heat spreader of their own, which makes getting good contact with a proper HSF tricky. The components on a motherboard probably tolerate the heat a lot better than you...

I was in Chicago yesterday due to a rare occurrence of decent, sunny weather in February. My roommate and I were walking around with cameras. She likes to collect old video games and vintage clothes ("vintage" for her definitely means things people were wearing when I was about 10), so we were...

My friends take off their clothes for money, Lunar. I've had an association with a strip club that was technically one of my first jobs, and that trust has held and been applied to years of people who have worked there since. My dearest friends now are or were dancers. Some of them have other...

Some people pay me and some people don't. I've sat down and taught people lighting and photo processing (please shoot in raw. Yes, even on your phone). Also, digital marketing, storage organization and even just an explanation for how to use the most relevant platforms for the kind of content on...

I believe you can get a driver for a decent chunk of USB NICs if you really want to play with it. re: SMBv1, you might consider setting up NFS as an alternative. Free clients exist for even DOS-based versions of Windows.

I use a pair of QDR Infiniband adapters between my two big systems. At the time I bought them, the 7m twinax cable was the most expensive part, but these days even that is genuinely reasonable. Even an Infiniband switch is reasonable compared to 10GbE hardware.

LTO numbers are always WILDLY optimistic, like every file type we use now doesn't already have compression applied. The claim for LTO9 us 45TB but the actual capacity is 18TB. In my experience, you might as well not bother to compress anything getting sent to tape.

Cinebench is a pure CPU benchmark that offers an apples to apples comparison across platforms. Most anything else you'd care to name will be impacted by architectural differences like memory bandwidth. AMD 7000 vs 13th gen Intel is kind of the same broad story. Intel can usually claim it has...

There's about $1000 in budgetary slack involved. Will the desktop Ryzen with a desktop GPU by THAT small? Nope, but an mITX build is within the realm of reason and it'll STILL be $500 cheaper, even in a premium chassis like a Cooler Master NR200P (which will also work with at least some uATX...

Apparently, the $2000 12 core Mac Mini Pro with an M2 Pro and 32GB RAM is in some ways superior to the Mac Studio, but it also tops out at 32GB, which isn't exactly a ton of RAM these days. I looked into it a bit and it's core-for-core about as powerful as a Ryzen 5900 (Apple is a little faster)...

I'm 99% sure SLC is just used for high speed NAND cache now.

Are you snapshotting in addition to running dual parity or just relying on dual parity? I'm assuming you are, but that eats into the capacity of a pool depending on how much your data changes. Plain old RAID6 or RAID6-like arrays run in to the same statistical certainty of a read error at...

If you REALLY don't care, they made little 1x to 4x Physical adapters that just put your slot on the end of a ribbon cable. You can also get USB 3 to 4 1xPCIe slots, which sounds weird but found a lot of use among the mining community. Remember that PCIe will operate fine with fewer lanes so...

They're supposed to be TLC NAND but it wouldn't surprise me of they are actually QLC with a TLC or MLC cache. They're also only good for .3 DWPD, which is half what the truly MLC 860 Pro supported, even in the same capacity, or against the .75 DWPD TLC in Intel P4500s. That suggests there is...

Not always. There are vendors willing to warranty them for five years from date of purchase, if that's a concern. I've noticed that a couple resellers are offering variable length warranties for the same model of drive, which suggest that they're aware of that issue as well. I get datacenter...

I mean don't go hastily buying WD drives. But you should be able to find HGST He8s with a 5 year warranty for under $100. Datacenter used second hand drives can be an absolute bargain though.

One of my friends developed what might be a life-long heart condition after having long covid. I've also heard of otherwise healthy people becoming Type 2 diabetics. If only we hadn't had the most spiteful and incompetent people in charge of public health at the start of the pandemic. As it is...