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Almost everything I have is on Ubiquiti, but it's actually a pain point right now because probably 90% of the dozens of APs I have deployed are currently considered legacy hardware by the latest controller software and I don't feel like there's a big enough groundswell of Wifi 6 clients to...

A comedian named Bill Engvall. OK sed, this Youtube channel is basically a breakdown of all the weird crap I've done in my life as a techie. Half-hour long breakdowns of old UNIX workstations and tours out outdated network tech. You'll love it. The newest A+ exam requirements were released at...

I could in theory look at it but I'm out. Apparently the person who makes the video does get to see the recipient's response but it doesn't get shared with anyone else. Also, it's REALLY inexpensive to get a lot of well known voice actors to make one, but shockingly expensive to get a lot of...

There's a web service called Cameo that lets users pay small amounts of money to get video messages from a celebrity. I just used it to fire my most annoying customer.

I almost never tax the buffer in my cameras to the point that it becomes an issue. It's just not how I shoot. I've found the R6 can shoot for over 5 seconds at 20fps with an RF lens, or about 12.5 seconds at 10fps at 10fps with an EF lens. I've been able to do that with the Extreme Pro UHS-I cards.

Unattended setups haven't changed much since the release of Windows NT also 30 years ago. I think they already know about it.

AMD typically restricts their Integrated graphics to midrange at most and I believe they rely on die shrinks to keep the thermals under control. In the past they also used more modest core counts to keep a lid on heat.

It depends on your definition of well, to be sure. If you have a 3080 and move to a 4070, you're probably saving somewhat on your power consumption and getting somewhat better performance than you had. If your only goal is to at least double processing output on video renders, it's probably not...

I had to figure out why my experiences vis a vis SD Cards wasn't lining up with LM's last post. I've been buying Sandisk Extreme cards that I thought were UHS-II, but it turns out that SanDisk has a proprietary enhanced data transfer protocol that comes into play when you use one of a small...

Windows 11 will also do whatever an autounattend.xml file tells it, which will also bypass install defaults. I've been rolling my own Windows installers for years anyway but this is the first time I've bothered to try it on Windows Home edition.

A lot of my dancer friends absolutely swim in money but can't get a lease on their own to save their lives. And I also know a lot of kids who have finished college but wound up in low-paying jobs due to other factors, like industry reliance on contract workers who don't get insurance benefits...

It should probably be pointed out that pretty much nothing in the gaming world is going to fully use all the horsepower those 600W+ cards want because current-gen consoles won't have comparable hardware and more or less all game dev work is going to target those first and foremost. It'll be nice...

My big problem with Windows Home is the insistence on putting everything in OneDrive. 15GB isn't a ton of space and it makes people think they have to start paying to store data on their own computer. Also, a lot of people don't particularly want MS password requirements on a home machine. Also...

Current chatter in the GPU rumorsphere holds that Ryzen 7000 APUs will approximately on par with a 3060 Mobile part. If that's the case, that's a big step forward for integrated graphics. I was able to go to my local Best Buy and get an RTX 3070 (not-Ti) for MSRP today. It's getting used in a...

CFExpress cards are awfully expensive. The type Bs aren't as galling, but even those cost 5x what the SD equivalent does. For the rest of SF, these are the equivalent of nVMe (1.5GB/sec+ transfer rates) vs basically HDD speeds. UHS2 SD cards usually top out around 200MB/sec writes if you have a...

The R7 specs according to CanonRumors: 32MP APS-C DPAF, 15/30fps shutter, IBIS, 2x SDcard, 4k60, 1080p120. No word on cost or what the actual processor or sensor will be, official announcement in the next few weeks. There's a lot to like there, especially if it's priced about where the R body...

If OneDrive is active and not prevented from doing so during the Windows install phase, the default save locations in Windows get set to c:\users\username\onedrive\documents etc. It's highly obnoxious to fix it while leaving Onedrive installed, and many users who DO use Onedrive will find that...

What amount of storage did you get with it? From what I've heard, it's extremely difficult to get the high capacity models.

I've just had to deal with the updated Windows 11 installer for the first time. There is no longer an option in the default setup to prevent Windows, even Windows Professional, from redirecting user data to OneDrive, and there's no way to skip signing in with a Microsoft account. You CAN...

Really the idea of quick and dirty runs counter to keeping the integrity of secure applications intact. A quick check does show that I can install Chase Mobile on either a relatively current Samsung S6 tablet or a 2021 Lenovo Duet, either of which can be found for around $150. You could also...

You can root your current device and run a proper, rooted backup if you want, but yes, when you install an image, it'll overwrite what's there. I have a Samsung S4 that I'll periodically dig out and upgrade, more out of curiosity than anything else.

You may find that any custom ROM you install will not work for certain apps because the boot signature won't have a recognized digital certificate from Samsung. This mainly impacts finance-related apps and streaming video services, so for example you might only be able to watch Netflix in 480p...

Have you tried any of the higher model Rs? The R5 and R6 really are substantially better cameras.

One of the things I love to photograph when I can is cosplay at comic book conventions. Today I went with a bunch of dancers to Exxxotica Chicago, which is quite literally a sex worker convention, held in the same convention center as most of the other nerdy convention events I've been to. I was...

I respect the landscape people but the only time I'm going to be up early enough to be out for those dawn shots is when I've already been up all night. My weekends tend to run to 3 or 4AM as it is but sunrises are asking too much. Landscapes are also frustrating because someone can take the best...

Pretty sure you can watch Youtubes in a private window. I don't have social media either and while I do have Youtube content, it's all unlisted videos I've shared with maybe five people. In any case, I've summarizing the chatter that's out there as I see it.

The guy posts a lot on Twitter and Youtube as well.

I suspect very strongly that they were reference designs, as the OEM cards in consumer and fleet desktops that shipped with low or mid-spec GPUs of the time weren't particularly different from branded cards from the usual suspects. It's all ancient history now, but I think the small HSFs that...

Everything is focused on the high end and below that is just relying on the traditional placement of the lower-tier SKUs in comparison. They're saying the fastest GPUs will at least double 3090 and the mid tier (4070-ish) will be somewhere between 10 and 30% faster than a 3090 for most...

I don't use Adobe-anything myself so I'm not completely sure. There's a not-quite-linear increase in performance on Resolve Studio performance that scales with GPU performance based on available cores, and since AMD doesn't make anything that competes with xx80 or xx90-series hardware, that...

AMD's drivers are better on the Linux side and yes, they've always kinda sucked for Windows. On the other hand, my life-long experience with nVidia has involved under-specified fans that would kill cards. To this day I still don't trust anything with an nVidia GPU that's not on a dual-slot...

I still don't think I need more than 18 - 25MP in the first place.

The leaks on Lovelace so far suggest that the mid-class GPUs and up are going to be massive power hogs and the top-end will have maximum draw in the 600W range. AMD's next GPUs are efficient chiplets with a fast interconnect, and there's no sign that its products will need those 12-pin power...

I don't understand why Canon hasn't killed EF-M yet, but I think it's pandemic supply chain BS that's keeping both Canon and Nikon from offering crop sensor bodies. They just don't want to be bothered with anything that doesn't have margins like a $2000+ body. Does anyone really NEED a crop...

At some point in the near future, I'll weigh a Lovelace card vs whatever RDNA3 card vs a 3080Ti. I think the world is about to be absolutely flooded with GTX 1660s, which is making me think that sticking a second GPU in my PC for Topaz software might get me farther than one big GPU.

I fully expect that they will. To be clear, I think there are probably exactly zero games I've played that don't run just fine (i.e. no dips below 30fps) at 4k on a 2080. Cyberpunk 2077 and Battletech are I think the two newest games I own, but the genres of games I tend to actually play, RPGs...

What exactly do you normally shoot? I figured you are doing travel/wildlife photos.

I was having a good time looking at building details that generally aren't visible from street level. It was fun to see how many tall buildings have gargoyles, for example. Or that some random skyscraper has a basketball hoop on the roof. LM, the specs on the Z-mount 800/6.3 look like exactly...

It's on par (a little below, actually) with the 3070, yes. That's still A LOT of graphics card. It's absurd enough that it wasn't a part I felt the need to upgrade once I got it. After doing a little bit of digging on that Matrix Awakens demo, there is apparently a single thread in Unreal...

There's a compiled version of the Matrix Awakens Unreal 5 engine demo floating around now. I got a copy of it from a Mega link and tried it out. It looks absolutely amazing, but I can't seem to do better than 35 - 45 fps @ 4k with RTX 2080. It might be interesting to come back in six months...

Eye/Body detection AF is ironically the thing that was actually working correctly. It's when I switched to one of the single point, zone or plane AF modes that I'd lose control. The controls on my R6 are set up so AF-ON switches to whichever Eye AF mode I have set and AE Lock focuses for...

Very few modern file formats aren't compressed as part of the standard in the first place. You might as well enable FS level file compression for the oddball exceptions, but almost no one is storing plain text or uncompressed TIFFs in quantities that will result in much savings.

Canon wants me to send in my R6. I downgraded the firmware to 1.4 instead. My issue went away. I suppose that if it returns after the next major firmware revision, I will ship it back, but it's definitely a disappointment. From my back and forth with Canon, it doesn't seem to be a common issue...

Probably 10 and 11, but also Linux!

Intel released its first Alchemist GPUs today. Today's products are for mobile devices only and appear to benchmark at about double the speed of the current Intel IGP, but this is also the weakest part in the lineup. I do think it's good news that a new discrete GPU has entered the market, and...

We are talking about a general purpose CPU benchmark in this case. The M1 Ultra doesn't quite live up to an Alder Lake i9 on single core scores or a Threadripper 3990X for multicore but it's somewhere close-ish for both. One of the nice things about having large numbers of cores is the ability...

Tasky, a simplified alternative to Tasker.

The Mac Studio does outpace a consumer Alder Lake i7 and is approximately on par with a three year old Threadripper in terms of CPU performance, but is absolutely smoked by the new fastest Threadripper Pro. The biggest guys have approximately 3x(!) the multicore performance and seem comparable...

My subjects generally aren't sitting still and posing nicely, LM. Especially if they've had some drinks, or if they're dancing. Especially especially if they're dancing. I spend most of my time in FV mode, which I think is new to the RF-mount Canons. I'd rather stay in that and alternate...

I have AF-On engaging Eye AF and * set to select focus mode. If I'm using anything other than Eye-AF, after a few pictures (~20 - 50), the camera parks the focus point on the bottom left (single point) or left-hand side (wide focus) of the focus area. The fix seems to be to switch the camera on...