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Were you able to replace the batteries with standard ones?

Yes, that's what I thought. And then those inverters can fail catastrophically. The old transformers don't have that issue at 60Hz though copper is expensive. I get 4-5 years of battery life from AGM lead-acid, which is acceptable as I do have outages. Are there any reasonably sized/priced...

The battery life of the A53 is fine when new and I'm usually charging to 80%. I did not know there was a frequency control. Phones are the only "computers" that keep getting more expensive. I don't know what paying twice as much would do for it. They force you to pay for all kinds of crap you...

IIRC Cyberpower used to be considered a 2nd rate Asian alternative to APC, Tripplite, Liebert, etc. but I have no recent experiences. I do recall a period of time when there were compatibility issue with the newer UPS and the high efficiency computer PSUs. IIRC the newer UPS used higher...

I don't have anything that fancy and they sure are more expensive than a dozen years ago. There is an upright model that is less costly.

What are you using for controllers?

I may very well end up buying a third A53, but figured that it is worth looking at other options. The cost is over $500 at the phone store with activation and tax. The Motorola Edge 2022 is ~$50 more. I'm not sure how much performance differs or matters. The Samsung supposedly uses...

That falls under not obvious. :D That phone has not been mistreated at all. It has a nice case and I charge it to 80% most of the time. I doubt that it is worth messing with an old phone that is stuck with Android Level 8. I have many travels in the next 5+ months and didn't really want to...

I have more than that on a UPS with 24Vx24Ah, though of course not all are powered on at one time. 3x NAS=400TB, 3950x and 5950x systems, Intel NUC Tigers lake, monitor, small 40' TV and basic 5.1 receiver, networking, etc.

I don't understand the deprived MVNO, but why would any change at the phone server occur both in the office (2nd) and at home? Aren't the cell radios closer together than home to 2nd or 5th section offices (6-14 miles)? There is no obvious way to disassemble the phone.

Get a power conditioning box and then a UPS or alternatively a good double-conversion UPS to handle routine spikes, sags, and surges. I prefer UPS with internal and external batteries for extended runtime. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to stop direct or near-direct lightning...

Actually, it is the MOTO E5 plus. The battery is at 93% life as charge has been limited to 80% most of the time. The problem is that it loses the 4G LET cell signal and goes to E or nothing. It doesn't make sense because my new phone is getting a strong 5G signal when placed nearby. When I...

Don't you have an R6 or can you buy the R7 kit? Alternatively rent an R7 and work that cost into your business model. The only reason I want an R7 is that the 90D has some vibration issues at 700 or 840 mm (actual). So does the R7, but apparently at 15FPS EFCS is generally OK.

Would you be comfortable with two of the exact same phone? Obviously there are some advantages to that.

I tried that a couple of years ago with the 4510 or something. It was dead in like 3 weeks. I'm not sure if it was the M.2 adapter or what, but $1000 lost and I was done with that experiment.

There were no technical issues, but it's gone. Isn't Samsung the one that sold phones that were burning up to point that the airlines did not allow them on the planes? I had an LG part 4 something and it just died one day. They seem to be out of the phone business now.

That is only a 65W CPU, so I have no idea why a massive heatsink with two fans would not cool it sufficiently unless there are mechanical heat transfer issues or the CPU is being operated improperly. The manufacturer (AMD) sells the CPU with a smaller cooling solution (Prisma Wraith). The...

My new phone from May is no more and I ordered another one as there was urgency. Now, my other phone is dying out. 😧 It doesn't seem like like a good idea to buy another of the exact same phone in case there is some inherent defect to the design. What are thoughts about that or maybe the...

I have the 3950x on the D14 and the 5950x on the D15 and they seem fine to me, but I have that same concern. There is an interesting read here. https://noctua.at/en/noctua-standardised-performance-rating

Supposedly up to 29% of a core improvement? 13% is IPC and the rest is speed. Then the all-core performance is even better since the package can handle higher power and is also more efficient. We'll have to the see how this tests at various sites. I'm concerned about heat and don't want to...

Yes of course they are better due to the enterprise needs. I also suspect that the capability of using a lot more power due to the connectors and dissipation from metal enclosures makes a difference. Sustained writes are always a problem for me. The trend lately is for many SSDs to be slower...

I'd stripe 2-3 of them. Does the TLC flash achieve anywhere near the PCIe 4 interface speed after the buffer is exhausted in a few seconds? I've found the current drives are crapping out well below 2000MB/sec. sustained writes, basically not better than the old MLC 970 Pro. I think...

The Samsung 990 Pro is coming. Unfortunately the 4TB will not be out until 2023. :mad:

The forum did something to my post. :( From what I found online the 3D stuff makes the core speeds quite a bit slower. Maybe the Ryzen 4 will have a more coordinated cache system and the extra caches are not as necessary? Why do the games need so much cache anyways; is there no opportunity to...

Does the 3D version do anything expect games AS I WAS READING FROM THE ? Does the avx-512 DO?

The 5950x at least made the 570x system with that sluggish CPU 3950x more viable. I'd expect at least similar improvement, but hope for more. I'd rather go with Intel nowadays, if not for the horrors of Win 11. If the performance per core of i9 13th gen is really good I wonder if those...

There are still no R7s are to be had unless you want to buy it with a a cheesy RF-s zoom. It's going to be simply stupid to spend more than half of the new body cost to rent one this fall and winter. The R7 is not a very good camera in any case, but Canon is still stuck on 45MP FF exactly 5...

We are renting a D500 this fall, but next year they may not be available. Unfortunately nothing remotely replaces it in DX for AF with 500mm lenses. The last high grade system Pentax made was the LX around 1980. They did not transition well to AF and later digital. :(

But to what, MAC or Windows 11 and Intel?

Ryzen 4 is just around the corner. What are the thoughts?

Is it possible to remove encryption after installation? What happens when you swap drives around, use Acronis, Macrium, etc.? I'm not liking this at all.

The 4070 seems like a practical choice with plenty of performance at 300W.

I was all on the Seagates by the time 6TB was maximum. I don't recall if they were first or just more available. They were quite warm also and needed some airflow. Those were the final non-He 3.5" drives I ever bought.

Those old Hibachis just kept on going. :) I recently retired an olden WD Black 4TB, which was their fastest 3.5" HD at the time. It still worked perfectly, but is just too small. Modern drives are slower for whatever reason, but the He drives are just so much cooler.

Back in the '10s many photographers used the Drobo USB DAS units. Now the MACs are using 2-4 external NVMe in RAID 0 connected with TB. It's just normal for them to have for example 4x4TB SSD in software RAID 0 containing all their data. Apparently a NAS is too archaic and clashes with the...

They have a bad reputation for lack of service and most of the market was quite low end, e.g., the type of people that used mismatched size/speed non-raid drives. Today those types are typically using dual drive RAID 1 upright book style devices with 2x16TB drives or something like that. Then...

Does anyone care about gaming on a PC anymore? The kids have the PlayStations and I thought most else was about the cryptolithic miners or other types of processing. By the 2030s there will be no PCs just dumb terminals accessing the clouds. I just want to process images locally while it is...

The R7 has a crappy design where the shutter vibrates the camera and blurs the image. The ES mode is not so good either since the sensor readout is quite slow, even compared to the R5. :( That may be because it is derived from the old sensor in the M6 and 90D. I suppose the R7 will be most...

I was far south in July and used up to ISO 6400 on the R5. Between all the software of Topaz, DXO, Neat Image, etc. I'm still not satisfied that the IQ is up to par without losing fine details in the feathers or fur. Although results are usable with some masking and manual intervention, 3200...

But it still contains the same general idea that has been espoused for years. We really need to see the performance/watt for the 3000 series compared to the 4000 series. All it takes is a graph or few rather than rambling prose or U-Tube video. Then the buyer can make a reasonable decision...

I would not waste a PCI slot in such an old system just for the boot drive. An 860 EVO or 870 EVO should be fine.

So you prefer to fake it in processing rather than take fine photographs to begin with. That's nothing to be proud or jealous about. :(

I have to use 11 at work, so there is no option to install any 3rd party programs that have not been approved.

How can you ungroup the programs running on the taskbar? It's ridiculously a pain to try to see a postage stamp sized image of the windows you want within one program instead of clicking from A to B separate items. Normally I use group only when the taskbar is full.

I've seen a few electric trains in Eastern cities and of course in Europe. However I thought most US locojotives were burning fuels. I built a µATX system last year with the AMD 5700G. It doesn't have the APU AFAIK, but a Radon graphics chip. It's only a 65W CPU all in, so the Wraith cooler...

A 300W card will generally have three fans and be over a foot long, so the ariflow is spread out and it isn't all that noisy. I don't know about trains, but the APU in commercial aircraft is way louder than a video card. ;)

The M1 Max with 32 GPU cores is the lower end. The M1 Ultra chip has up to 64 GPU cores so that would be like a 3070Ti?

I think I looked at those a while ago, but they are a Best Buy brand and not in stock or orderable. :(

I thought they were all Nvidia? Do you have a link to store that has them?

So you let some bot access your work and choose which ones it thinks are best? :rolleyes: