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No, but maybe living in the woods without power. LOL

Now a completely different UPS shut down and took out everything with it, even the clock. :( The TV and YAMHAH are not connecting and energy outlet is not triggering itself. At least the main STB is on Lithium 12V.

A few years ago one branch of the company had an on-site infrastructure failure and destruction of hardware so nobody could access systems. Then they removed most of IT staff and all equipment from the region. Now everything (both computing and storage) is on the global Amazon which supports...

The cheapie 180-600 Nikkor is shipping soon. I'm getting a 200-600 S*ny for July and hope to do some testing in the Augustus timeframe. I'm not expecting the edges and corners of such a cheap Nikkor lens to be very good. We'll see if it passses the giraffe tests.

I have no idea what is WizTree, but am pretty sure it is not necessary to take photos or store images. Maybe it is necessary for online submissions, but when the internet shuts down or changes to something else, all that will be gone. Archival prints will survive longer than all the digital...

Don't they use the carbon fibre bikes in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, La Vuelta a España, etc.?

There were no toilets. :( 1. is for me.

Apparently they are finding pieces of the submarine. RIP :cry:

The people are squeezed into a relatively small area in Denmarken so power distribution is less of a concern over distances than in many parts of the states. In live in an underground area yet there are still power outages, perhaps from farther away. Sometimes transformers fail in various...

Some of the participants were wealthy. They were just going on vacation, not involved with the design or operation of the sub. Many reports are indicating that it was a cheap POS of a sub.

Aren't the servers supported at the datacenter where generators will kick in after some seconds? Or are they small companies that have old stuff in the backrooms?

My question about the super/ultra caps is if they work well, why is nobody selling such a UPS? Most UPS >500W use 24V and some 36V if that makes any difference.

It depends on where you live, but I experience a lot of short outages and then several that last a few hours. It's a PITA when your NASes are dirty from uncontrolled shutoffs and it is necessary to scrub them or whatever. I have a larger battery supply (~588Whr) in the main NAS simply because...

I'm cautioulsy optimistic, but history has shown that failed businesses are rarely saved in current form.

There must have been a massive screw-up in design, construction, and/or operation. Surely there will be investigation. Subs are not my favorite place. I'd be freaking out past 500". Fortunately I never worked with the NAvy.

I did not know that batteries declined so much. Would you would replace personal UPS batteries every two years if they were at your residence?

My last set is from September 2017. I have many other UPS with batteries from 2019 that are probably getting weak also. :( Merc must spend a small fortune with all his hardware on UPSes and no generator.

A full set of new batteries are between $210-$350. I opted for the mid range and made the counter guy check the voltages of each one. ;) Do you folks replace leaded batteries on a fixed schedule or wait for them to blow?

James Cameron went down to 11km (6.8 mi) over ten years ago in a solo sub. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-returns-science-sub He must have been using better quality equipment than the poor bastards in that sub that...

Main UPS (#8) shut down when there was an electrical glitch. My batteries are very warm, swollen, and lumpy. :(

Why not get one of these?

I've only updated the MSI for the 5700G and 5950x. You have to use the specific port in the rear.

All of my Ryzen 2,3,4 boards flash bios with a thumb drive and no CPU installed. Not sure about Asus brand though you can download the manuals.

Isn't that what Intel does all the time on the management engines? And Windows is constantly spying on you and updating all kinds of crap.

I would be using S*ny if the subjects are close enough for wides, normals or short teles, e.g, humans and domestic species. There are so many similar fast E mount lenses under 135mm that it is nuts.

I'm really debating, but may opt to use the Sony 200-600 in a boat since I cannot easily change lenses. Maybe if the R7 did not have that crappy, slow sensor and shutter shock, I'd have more confidence in it on the 100-500. There are plenty of really good Nikkor Z primes like the 400/2.8 TC...

It was sucking in Windows XP. :(

Thinking about all the slow crap there used be, Intel, AMD and Apple are not the worst CPUs. I used a mini-laptoc with Transmeta CPU IIRC. It was so slow, as if going backwards in time. Somehow it did not naturally run Windows, but used a kind of simulator. 🤯

I don't think there is so much of the cheap stuff supporting the good stuff like 10-15 years ago before the Iphone ruined everything. Each line will have to be profitable by itself. Going into 2H23 Canon is behind the curve on the good stuff. Nikon and S*ny each have two cameras that are...

I never used those socketed CPUs. I don't think they had very much RAM capacity. My first computer was maxed out at 384MB RAM. The CPU was on a vertically mounted thing with heavy heatsink and no fans.

I was using Abit back the 20th century. BIOS were primitive back then with few options. However, all my internal organs were present and working fully back then. :D

I'm pretty sure that Canon's marketing did the research studies a couple of years ago to find the right products. I also think that having the R100 at $600 w/lens and the R50 at $800 w/lens many will be steered towards the latter. Now I hope Canon has enough of the croppers and gets to work on...

My last board is MSI X670E because it was the only one <$600 with 4x M.2 and all the other stuff including the bifurctating PCIe. My computer is completely maxed out. The only issue is that the two M.2 slots on the CPU lanes are double sided, but the two M.2 slots on the chipset are single...

It's daft not to have a touch screen in a consumer body like that, but so is most of everything now related to photography. Mediocrity is an aspiration and everyone is a weakling (especially in Canon). Hardly anyone prioritizes high image quality anymore.

It's probably mfg. cost going up and sales volume going down. Other than gamers or a few others, who builds a desktop computer anymore? The majority of individually owned "computers" are cell phones, laptops, or tablets.

R100, wow.

Is the VRAM really so expensive, or are the extra cores the cost driver? The architecture is massively parallel on multiple levels, but probably the higher GPUs are low in yields. Will the software need more RAM in few years or is the display resolution the obsoleting factor.

My understanding is the AI utilizes the Tense Cores. Some of the MAC folks are irritable because their very expensive Studios are suboptimal on the same tasks, lacking the better cores.

I am clueless about the RAM. I suppose it is caused by manufacturing the 3D effect. They don't need many MB just to display the flat image the humans see on the screen.

But isn't there a correlation between AMD and the nVIDia cards for the levels of 4070, 4070TB, 4080, 4090, etc? Is there a calculation to compare them or is only empirical testing possible? Why is 8GB an "only" situation? It seems like plenty, but I only played two games so far.

If Intel is so much better, then wouldn't nVIDia lose sales and reduce the price? I have not used the AMD GPU since XP, so I don't know about the cost or performance. What AMD GPU is similar to the 4070Ti for the AI Denoise? Is it cheaper or do they keep similar prices?

So for $400 what would you buy for a new Windows computer, AMD, Intel, or nVIDia?

What are talking about? Did something happen?

The 10W Celerion Jasper Lakes 11th gen CPU is quite underpowered, but it's a good trend. The older QNAP M.2 SSD NAS has only four NVMes and 2.5GbE. I would not be using those cheap DRAMless QLC SSDs, but that's me. Why not just put SSDs inside your computer case? You'd get more bandwidth even...

Both 100-300/2.8 and 200-500/4 can be used for multiple purposes, including various sports. The 200-500 is basically the new 200-400/4. You used to see them on TV at sports and other events. It would be nice to have the flip-in 1.4x, but the new zoom at 500mm will probably be nearly as good...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/ Is this really a problem?

An RF 200-500/4 is in the works. It's rather a bummer because the lens has no internal 1.4x TC and of course there will be no further 500/4 lenses.

They went down the tubes a while ago. MAC users get Thunderbowls SSDs and Win/Lindux users have real NAS or storage servers

Pentium had a calculation error. This reminds me of the 8th gen after the BIOS update sucked 10% of the CPU. Then Windows suckerd more. I think Intel removed the defect before my 11th gen.

I was looking at the Dell Alienwaresand they are using the JEDERC RAM settings of 4800. Maybe the speed doesn't matter with the INtel.