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All the units I've looked at are just a straight attachment for a drive, but I don't see that as a problem for a 2.5" SSD; you can buy a little case to put it in when you aren't using it.

At this point, the first question to ask Mac people is why they came to you instead of taking their shit to Apple. Either it's too old for Apple to look at or they have something weird going on that deserves additional explanation.

I found myself missing the fast aperture a lot more than I thought I would, but I will say that conditions aboard a cruise ship generally led to some absolutely killer golden hour lighting, above and belowdecks both. I was able to get photos uploaded to Google Photos from my devices within 8...

The main reason to have a Mac around for servicing computer is that a Mac is explicitly the only way to EASILY and LEGALLY download MacOS. Unfortunately, You're only legally able to grab MacOS versions that you've claimed, so older releases that are widely compatible with Macs one might have to...

Maybe you could look at a u.2 to USB bridge? That would open up your options somewhat.

Hackintoshes are very hacky and miss out on some of the stuff that makes MacOS interesting. Airdrop might not work, for example. I'd say Macs aren't particularly interesting either, but I primarily interact with them from a terminal window and have no need of the mobile integration tools, so I'm...

I spent $40 on a subscription to CuriousityStream, in part because it includes the cost of Nebula, a sort of creator-driven extension of Youtube. Nebula operates on the lure of creators who already make content people like. CuriosityStream is just a huge collection of curated documentaries...

Actually, I didn't know it could identify leaves. My plant identification stops at knowing what poison ivy, oak and sumac look like. It's absolutely KILLER for quickly importing all the recipes mom wrote out on index cards in 1972 though.

I am really surprised how many people don't know about Google Lens. One of my customers was going to buy a $500 dedicated book scanner to handle OCR. Lens can pick up text from a photo, even handwritten text, and put it all on your clipboard. Just paste it in to a Google Doc or something, with...

I did a fun little experiment with my students today. We set up a small RAIDZ1 on a Linux system using 3x2TB drives, copied some data to it and then installed OpenZFS on Windows, plugged in our drives and imported the existing zpool. It's not perfect, because it mounted read-only, but we're also...

For real, I've almost always been a trackball person, starting with the Microsoft Intellipoint then the Logitech Trackman and Trackman Marble+ and now the M570. I buy a new one about every 30 months (old ones get moved over to less frequently used computers); I use the wheel as a button a lot...

Settled on a 24 - 105/4 and my R6. I don't see myself needing anything where I need the extra speed over the extra focal range.

Honeywell Footed mouse! It's the future of pointing devices!

True story: a former co-worker of mine has been involved in ongoing national news because he dropped his wife's grandchild out of an open window while on a cruise. He was found criminally negligent but I believe his family is still trying to pursue a civil suit against the cruise line. But in...

I'm to pack for a surprise offshore trip next week. I'm taking my RF 35mm for sure; it's small and inexpensive. But 24 - 70? 24 - 105/4? 24 - 240? 28-70? :D I'd have to rent a 24 - 105 or the insane 28-70, but my Sigma 24-70 is enormous. I've never been on a cruise. I'm going on a cruise.

The song is actually a lament from older man watching a beautiful young woman walk by. She's oblivious and unaffected by his gaze. It's a rather universal experience for men of a certain age, I suspect. One of my great-great aunts was a classical pianist. She taught my mother to play, and my...

My quasi-SO is an Adobe adherent. She's been going to school for graphic design on and off for some time, and she has the $10/month everything for students package. And here's the thing: in the last 18 months, I've become aware of some of the crazy, crazy advancements that have been added to...

The Girl from Ipanema is an absolute all-time banger. It's the movie trope for elevator music, but it's also the one of the most frequently recorded songs in history. I'd never REALLY listened to it, and as a middle aged person whose social life authentically involves attractive women young...

I have a Canon R6 and an R7 right now, with the R7 intended for "secondary" tasks, which is usually either video with a wide lens or (I hope; it's too cold to be outside where I live to do much with human subjects) long shots with my 70-200, while my R6 is for pure photo work, usually off a...

That is indeed a glorious crop off a 600mm lens, and it's spectacularly free of noise for such a short shutter time. "Fast" for me is almost always 1/500 second and "far" for me is almost always less than 12m. Are you doing anything special in processing these images or is this straight out of...

I set up a customer's new offices on Sunday and I couldn't believe the internet speed for the price they were getting. I've been on the same Comcast service plan for something like five years. Last time I talked to them, the main thing I heard was that I had to accept an extra subscription to...

Most AMD motherboards have a designated USB port for doing firmware updates even when entirely unpopulated by CPU. For years, I've kept a lowest-cost CPU for any platform I support on hand for doing BIOS flashes. AM4 has been particularly bad about this, especially since AMD kept redefining...

ANDROID supports multiple user accounts, as in it is part of the AOSP baseline. I've only ever seen it enabled on tablets and phones running LineageOS. My Tab S8 and old-ass nVidia Shield tablet both have it, for example. Functionally, it doesn't look like there's MUCH difference between Samsung...

There's a crypto mining process that fills drives and then doesn't do anything more with the data. My datacenter doesn't charge for power, so it's popular with miners. I think that's why stuff is so frequently abandoned, too.

Sometimes the answer is nothing. I've been getting drives from my datacenter guys for a while to say satisfy my need for better than SMR high capacity drives and many of the ones I've received have had very low numbers of total bytes written and/or power on hours. I can usually buy 5 used...

Iirc, multiple user profiles is a tablet thing. You should be able to do eSIMs on your S20 though. Mine just got Android 13, which definitely does support that. I have an unlimited use Office 2007 volume license that dates from before activation became an issue, which started with Vista and...

Diskprices.com is really nifty and sorts results to include whether or not the drives are new, used or refurbished.

The hardware warranty in no way depends on the state of software on the PC. We won that fight in like 1998. When I ship an in-warranty laptop for service, I remove the drive before I ship it anyway; I've heard of people getting their laptop factory reset too many times to trust anything else.

I happen to know that there ARE older products Microsoft absolutely refuses to reactivate. Neither Small Business Server 2003 nor 2008 work any more. I was even trying to re-activate SBS2003 on its original hardware.

You CAN use Rufus to prepare an install image that drops the MS account requirements. Most of the integrations for the account boil down to redirecting folders to Onedrive (no, thank you) and having a place to put the default-on Bitlocker recovery key.

That is what a mirror set is for. Maybe something like this?

The R6 is the dark room with no control over lighting champion. I partway wonder if I should return it for an R6mk2 instead, but unfortunately, I won't get many opportunities to shoot outdoors in good light for several months unless I manage a couple weekend getaways to the south or west. I...

Have you thought about syncing everything to a cloud service or are you places where bandwidth is a distinct issue?

I'll say that I have enough faith in Topaz DeNoise to use 6400 ISO on the R7. We're having awful weather here. It might be a while before I do anything interesting with it.

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed or cares, but Google Play Games has a beta for enjoying your Android games on Windows.

I finally got my goddamned R7. It feels cheap compared to the RP I had and I don't like having the power control on the right-hand side. From just chasing my cats and roommates around the house with it, it definitely doesn't keep up for low light; ISO 6400 looks to be about as high as I can push...

I FINALLY got the shipment notification for my R7.

What makes you think that I am anything other than sincere in my faith in the seven Angels entrusted by God to stand as stewards of the Earth and Mankind? What makes you think that your Krishna, faint echo of he who did not bow even to almighty God, is the greater source of truth? Melek Taus...

We can have a perfectly pleasant discussion. We don't have to involve Parky until he contributes something of value. I'd like to assert that the ancient and inspirational message of the Peacock Angel on his shining throne of pearl is a vastly more enlightened one, as is evidenced by all of...

jtr, I do believe it is the right and responsibility of parents to instruct their children and it is their first duty to explore ethics and morality so their children can function with other human beings. There are not many people who teach the basics of these things in an absolutely incorrect...

There are purportedly real benefits in holding out for higher bandwidth RAM on AMD's architecture. I have DDR4 3600 CL18 RAM in my workstation and I've never used anything else with it. I believe DDR5-7200 is the highest speed RAM currently approved by JEDEC, so that's probably the stuff you're...

Parky, can you offer even one objective reason to support your sentiment that your faith is the singular true one in all of human history that is not itself reliant on your holy texts or dissertation from an adherent? I will just as certainly reject the Koran, Bible or Adi Granth as evidence of...

I mildly disagree; there is value to be had in the study of religion, both from the standpoint of comparative views and in using holy texts as literature or art. I took a Bible as Literature course in college; it was the only time I got to be in the same class with the Saudi, Bangladeshi...

Religion at its best is a lubricating element for ordered social cohesion. A self-selecting group chooses (or inherits with or without additional thought on the subject) a set of beliefs they agree to adhere to. In this way, almost all religions ultimately have very similar beliefs, at least...

AMD lifted the curtain on RX7000 hardware and the 7900 is apparently more than twice as fast in compute terms than the 6900 and has a downright reasonable 300W TDP and $1000 MSRP.

Cooler Master N-whatever or S-whatever are pretty great cases. They've kind of replaced Antec as providers of a generally good if unspectacular chassis. Actual Antec kind of went off the deep end with weird RGB and festishy skeletal styles for everything but the most basic models. IMO the P5 is...

I'm a big fan of the Cooler Master NR200, which is a big boy for mITX but it does support at least SOME 3-slot uATX boards by relocating the PSU cage. It's definitely sturdy enough to support real weight on it and can be used in any orientation. It can handle a full size GPU and it has nifty...

Flip the screen. You can control focus and shoot by dragging and tapping your left thumb on the screen if you'd like. I'd love to see a left-handed camera. Having everything on the right is a real inconvenience IMO. Even with my heavy Sigma lenses, it's not a big deal to have my thumb wrapped...

As long as they don't bring that godawful touch bar from the R back, I can probably get used to almost anything else, although I definitely miss the top display on my old 5D. On the R6, I do find that I have to be very deliberate in recording video, because the record button is too close to...

I have an EF 135/2 already, which is an amazing lens. I don't have as many opportunities to use it as I'd like given the limitations of my normal subject matter and likelihood that I'm shooting in a relatively small space. I got a "Launch Day" R6 that was actually delivered the day after I heard...