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I don't know why anyone would expect a xy30 card to be anything but awful. The price is a naked cash grab, but IMO anything xy50 and below should be sitting at $100 on the highest end and $40 - $50 for the least expensive SKU.

I've found that local HDR content played back through Kodi oversaturates as well, especially toward green hues. The one place I've found that I actually appreciated having it was while watching the later seasons of the Expanse through Amazon. I think I've decided that HDR is mostly something...

Well the good news is I only have two broken toes and one that's only fractured. There's just a giant ugly bruise on my big toe. I have a walking boot for at least a month.

Someone who was not me dropped a laser printer on me today. I have at least four broken toes. Earlier in the week, someone knocked me down while I was taking photos at a protest, breaking a $1000 camera lens. To top it off, TSA removed an envelope with about $400 in cash from my carry on while...

I'd never bothered to check my power rate. It's $.13/kWh for me. I don't know if that's because I'm living in an apartment vs. a single family home but holy crap you guys are getting killed.

nVidia is at the point where AMD was about five years ago. They are currently trying to brute force a low-efficiency design into better and better performance by relying on die shrinks for real improvement. TSMC is delivering, but it's pretty clear they're going to need a new architecture if...

The most current rumors suggest that the 4070 will be a 300W GPU, with the 4080 at 420W and the 4090 at 450(!)W. That suggests to me that the upper ceiling on the class of card I'd be willing to buy is the 4070.

He was 18 or 19 years old. It's hard to know exactly, but he was grown in 2005. Someone dumped him by my apartment. Instead of running off, he saw me getting out of my car and asked to come in. I named him Hiro Protagonist after the main character in Snow Crash, because he had golden fur like...

I came home to a cat who is probably dying. He's 19 and I had an idea that this might come soon, but he wants to be on cool tiles in the bathroom tonight, so my roommate and I are hanging out in this tiny little room with him, watching news coverage of the congressional hearings on a laptop...

Apparently the new version of Rufus has built in options to fix the Windows 11 installer ISO from doing some of the dumb things it does.

Usually, yes. I can override or add to its selections if I want, but if for example I have five shots of the same subject taken in the same in the same small period of time, it's probably going to pick the one picture with the best combination of facial expression and pose, which saves me from...

I'd love to see the legal gymnastics involved in calling a fetus a citizen for purpose of legal protection but not for tax purposes. But yes, this is an issue. The other fun part will be the day that a gay marriage in Illinois does not have to be recognized in, say, Alabama. This gets to the...

Also for what it's worth, my current workflow is to dump my card to a folder per shoot, run that folder through Optyx for photo selection, import culled photos into a new Capture 1 catalog per shoot, where I do most of my develop work. 1. I'll export TIFFs and pick those up in Topaz Products as...

Merrick Garland, the current AG USA, is a member of the same ultra-conservative Federalist Society as six members of the US Supreme Court. When Garland was nominated by Barack Obama to serve on the court, he was seen as a compromise pick who might have had a broad appeal with more conservative...

I usually use one setting for a given ISO value and only on ISOs 12k and above. Normally, the lightly tuned low-light preset does what I need. The biggest problem I noticed when running things that way is that I'll lose some detail in hair, but since these are often images taken a 1/250th of a...

I did some amount of BLM protesting in 2020 and I've gone to other rallies and events since. I was at one event that turned somewhat violent. Chicago has notoriously brutal police though, so I took PPE gear and left my phone and camera (my good camera stays behind anyway; I have an old Panasonic...

sed is unusually interested in retro-computing. It's very challenging to build and maintain 30 year old hardware, so more power to him.

I run standalone conversions on TIFFs. I had a stress test of photos that I'd taken of stage sets at the club where my friends work, and some of those images went all the way up to 25k ISO. The latest version of Topaz had chewed through ~300 images in about the amount of time it took to make a...

Time to go yell at some feds. Chicago is a safe harbor, but it is an island in a sea of idiots, and I need to scream at all of them.

The improvement in performance in Topaz Denoise 3.7 is absolutely incredible. Processing time on my photos when from 10 - 12 seconds to about 2 seconds.

Matrox had those super-fast RAMDACs, which made them amazing for driving high resolution CRTs at extremely high refresh rates, like 1600x1200@90Hz (note to sed: that was beastly in 1999). They also had their house in absolute order with regard to driver quality. I did a little bit of research...

LEGO guy creates single-brick LEGO display that can display a game of Doom.

There are a lot of CPUs that don't have integrated graphics for one reason or other. I have a few R7 3700s sitting around, for example, and some of the newer i3s and i5s don't have iGPUs either (and what's up with that, Intel? Used to be i3 = iGPU. Not any more). Any of those guys would make...

It's deeply frustrating that the lowest tier of new discrete GPUs, stuff like the RX6500XT, are still overvalued on the market. I can get a nine year old GTX 950 for $75-ish, which is just barely an improvement over current iGPUs, but nVidia x10 and x30 cards are still by and large commanding a...

Catching up on posts from my crummy weekend... The newer 5600G and 5700Gs are actually looking pretty solid overall as a mid-tier build. AMD recently relented and released BIOS updates to let affordable B350 and 450 boards use 5000-series Ryzen, which makes the high end APU parts a lot more...

I had one. My landlord didn't want me venting the condensate out a window. and I don't want to run a hose through my whole living space, so I sold it and just live with it. I'm not even complaining.

It's not that different. You can't move the taskbar and the right click menus are stupid but everything can be fixed if you have administrator rights on your own PC.

I don't have AC. Old apartment, not something I feel I need in general. I'm used to being warm. I pay for decent internet at my place (1000 down, 100 up + a 120MBps synchronous connection from a long haul wifi link to municipal fiber). I have a large battery backup and my home has a certain...

My roommate just let me know that she's been hired to work for a concert promotion group centered around a major venue in Chicago. I should to be able to get a media pass to take pictures of music acts people have actually heard of, instead of the guys who play my local 500-seat theater. The...

I'm sure I'll make it up somewhere, but as things are, I'm just covering my own responsibility.

My datacenter was sold to a new party last month. The way that I found this out is that the new owner did not pay their bill to Cogent, which disconnected hundreds of servers, including mine, and forced just shy of three days worth of outage before an agreement to re-peer was put in place. Of...

How do you decide among your various bodies which one you use?

The only other country I've visited is Canada. I was supposed to travel to Vietnam with a friend in 2020 but we had to put that off. I have a brother who lives in Prague, so that's another option. Fortunately, there's enough going on in Chicago that I have plenty of reasons to keep gear handy.

If you're working with 100MP, maybe losing a little off the top isn't such a big deal? The red ring around the lens is what made me look closer in the first place. I don't see people with ILC cameras of any sort very often. My R6 and camera bag go almost everywhere with me, but other than the...

There will almost certainly be something similar.

Here's an interesting project: Windows 10 Ameliorated. The project can be built from hand or from a provided ISO, but the idea is to make a contemporary Windows installation with every single thing pulled out that would normally connect back to Microsoft. The down side to this is that users lose...

Fuji has had larger-than-full-frame with high MP readouts for a while now and they seem to do OK. I have no idea who uses those guys. I think I've only ever seen a Fuji GFX out in the world one time and that was some Asian guy taking pictures of marble statues at the Atlanta Museum of Art. And...

Canonrumors has an "all but confirmed by multiple sources" story that Canon will have 100MP+ full frame sensor camera in early 2023. That seems excessive to me, but maybe there's a newer CF Express format on the way that can deal with whatever absurd burst rate that thing will support. It's...

I can't think of a single time in the last 30 years when anything branded AMD or ATI didn't have bad drivers. Although to be honest nobody really had GOOD graphics drivers in 1992 anyway.

I would also be very happy to see 10TB for $100, even if it's stupid SMR.

Windows 11 has been poorly accepted by the corporate world thusfar. This might be one of those things where the features get backported before too long. The AMD RX6700 is an awful lot of video card and seems to finally be available below retail price. It's still a bear to find nVidia stuff at...

I also have an enormous media collection, though my stretches to include substantial collections of a number of non-video formats as well.

I'm not at a point where I can pick the no compromise option in equipment. I'm mostly using EF lenses as it is. I've found them to work as well or better on my RF bodies than they did on my 5d2. Even my RP focuses faster and even with older third party lenses. The sensor in the R7 certainly...

They might not want to break 30 year old functionality, or they might be operating under the (probably correct) assumption that users generally aren't going to use it anyway.

The guys at my datacenter swap out and sell drives after three years of 24x7 operation. They've been my main source for drives larger than 8TB and to date I've had good luck with them, although I'm typically getting SAS drives with ~18 months of remaining warranty. I have a couple dozen drives...

UBNT stuff lives in its own software ecosystem. If you're using pfSense as your foundation, you're probably going to run it on some or other mini-PC, like a NUC or Thinkstation m-series, or on something with a bunch of extra network ports to dedicate to a VM. The big problem I have with...

We have very different shooting needs. The R7 looks like a great choice second body to me. I'm most curious to know if I can switch the video profile easily, since that's a sore spot on both my RP and R6. I'll be sorely tempted if it does.

32MP sensor with IBIS and the fantastic AF tricks the R5 and R6 have? No overheat in 4k? No video recording limits? Digital hot shoe? There's A LOT to like in that R7 body.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the best kind of trippy.

The Epic Games freebie this week is all the Bioshock games. Not my thing but my roommate was thrilled about it. While I'm at it, Humble Bundle has a huge collection of ORA Programming cookbooks for $20. The Powershell Cookbook has been really handy for me over time.