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The higher refresh rates do make the phones seem more responsive. I turn off animations and other sorts of effects for the general Android OS, but I do notice when I'm scrolling a long web page or watching a video or something.

Unless I'm using Eye-AF, my focal point moves to the lower left-hand corner after some period of time. I can reset it, but it takes about 10 seconds each time. Eye-AF seems fine, but I'm have a sort of Chosen Family gathering this weekend, and I'm taking a lot of group photos and wide shots...

The A-series are really nice devices that have largely been very successful and reliable. They're "one step down" from flagship specs, so for example they have 90Hz screens instead of 120Hz, and use 700-series Snapdragon SoCs. You're getting specs that are probably on par with a 2 year old...

AMD has next gen Ryzen in the pipe. There are leaks but nothing official yet.

Ok so I tried the update and NOW my R6 is acting up. It created a problem I wasn't having at all on 1.5. Goddammitsomuch. It's easy enough to deal with but up to now, I've never had to.

Sure, but plenty of people also don't want to deal with having RAM and storage that can't be changed. I wouldn't want to be limited to Thunderbolt for every single thing I want to do.

AMD is releasing some budget Ryzen 5000s now, based on Zen 2 and Zen 3, and just added firmware updates to allow Ryzen 5000 CPUs to run on older but socket-compatible budget boards with A320 and B350 chipsets. MSRP is right in line with previous generations. This is good news for anyone who...

Since we're not in any way on topic right now, from what I've been seeing, it looks like the power draw on next-generation nVidia cards is going to be 400 - 600W with at least a provision for 800(!) watt single cards. That's mind boggling. Apparently nVidia and AMD have traded places as far as...

It's individual ICs soldered to the board if it's anything like the M1 iMac I opened up. They're serious about it not being upgradeable.

That was the driver for my choice to go to Threadripper instead of a consumer desktop platform. I'm not sure if there are any plans for another generation of Not-Pro Threadrippers going forward, unfortunately.

I've read some rumblings that PCIe Gen 5 might run nVME on two lanes instead of four, simply because the bandwidth will be there to support it. That would definitely make desktop consumer platforms a lot more appealing again.

Macs these days are the proverbial car with the hood welded shut. Yes, having no modularity means they can do whatever they want for RAM and CPU interconnects, which is the real power the M1 seems to have, but it's going to be so much e-waste in five years when 16GB will be a laughable amount of...

Games running on Linux have gotten a LOT better but something that annoys the crap out of me are games where the base product is available but none of the extras get released for it. Battletech for example doesn't have some of the DLCs it should. Turns out the game runs fine in emulation anyway...

It's hard for me to throw stones given that I'm sitting in front of a very expensive desktop as it is, but this is a system that has been continuously upgraded for over four years. I never put more than about $2000 into it at any point in time. $8k is about what my annual rent costs me.

On a related note, having just digested the M1 Pro/Ultra stuff that was just released, it's a goddamned shame that it's going to be tied to something that only has Thunderbolt ports (PCIe 4x equivalent) for expansion and IO and no capacity for RAM or internal storage upgrades.

I might be willing to look at a bigger GPU if there's some evidence that something is a big enough upgrade. If for example I can triple FP32 performance by moving to a Lovelace-series card for some reasonable (i.e. under $1000; the RTX A6000 does that but it is about $4k right now) amount of...

It's starting to seem like 2.5" SATA SSDs are becoming a thing of the past. I have a bunch of server systems out in the world that don't have u.2 backplanes and still have a couple years of life in them. Intel D3-S4510s, which were released in 2018, are kind of my product of last resort...

I have a bunch of Sabrent 2.5" USB enclosures for general purpose backup drives and I've used SSK nVMe enclosures for faster stuff. I can't say I've seen many disconnects.

Some day there will be a Batman who can turn his head.

Backblaze posted its reliability data for its SSDs today. It's on Slashdot, but maybe some of you don't check that all the time. The short version is that the drives that they have a decent statistical sample have failure rates around 1%/year, but there are two drives that look pathetic because...

I finally tried Gigapixed. I printed a 4x upsampled photo (~21k pixels x 14.5k) on a 32x24 sheet. The denoise + sharpen + upsample did make a hard line from the backlighting on my subject's arm and cheek. I could've masked that and fixed it, but it's barely noticeable even on the large print. A...

LM is clearly a CIA Operative. ;) My folks moved their entire home by themselves at age 66 and 67, including an antique 10' grand piano that's probably worth a decent chunk of what a home is worth as it is. And there were stairs involved. My dad still does all the upkeep on the exterior of...

I have access to the local "big" venue in my area, thanks to a friend of a friend, but only from the control booth, which is at the back and top of the space. That means I can record the venue sound, but 200mm isn't great for video from the space I can access. I also have some ambition of trying...

If I remember right, Tannin dumped the R for an RP. Maybe he's moved on from there? The Canon 100 - 400 II is ~$1500ish as a secondhand lens and $2300 new. The Sigma and Tamron options are about $800 new. That seems wildly different in price, although I understand that things might be a bit...

I'm tempted to go next-gen, but I'm not sold on the Alder Lake approach. It's still more CPU cores, but AMD is offering higher efficiency on a smaller number of cores. I'm a bit stuck, since Intel doesn't have great support for AMD on professional systems and I'm really not comfortable with the...

Remodeling projects and yard upkeep are the best reasons not to own a home in my opinion. Every time it snows, I'm thankful I'm not the one out dealing with it at 5 in the morning.

Moving is the worst. When my roommate moved in, I was the only person willing or able to help her. She's barely 5 feet tall and weighs just a touch over 100lbs, so I wound up filling a moving van more or less by myself. I live in a third floor apartment. It was an unpleasant sort of time. She...

The photo-related tools LM uses almost never support Linux. Some can probably be used with emulation, but they're going to be niche applications that probably won't be well tested. Apple also demands an Apple ID to obtain software updates from its App Store, and there are some other minor...

Hey I only have 24 cores, and it was less about getting the huge number of cores as getting 88 PCIe lanes. I'm getting better DeNoise and Sharpen from the ~6 sliders in those products than what I get from Capture One or Luminar, especially given the processing time. DXO might yet be better...

Then it wants you to connect to that domain. Hope you're good at setting up Samba.

I saw that but since I'm not impacted by any current bug that needs fixing, I'm planning to wait for the next revision. I picked up Topaz DenNoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel software after giving each of them a trial run. The workflow with Capture One actually sucks, but I can't argue with how...

With Windows Home or a PC that has Pro installed but not associated with a Domain, it keeps pestering regularly if you aren't on a Microsoft account. That's what I'm anticipating going forward.

It's an email address and a birthday. I always use January 1 1980 for anything I do now. The main problem I have with this is that I set up PCs for A LOT of people and in most cases I don't think the MS Account adds anything but complexity to their experience; it's easy to make Windows save...

I currently share my home with a couple young women around sed's age who would otherwise be homeless. One of them I call my quasi-SO; she's staying at least until she finishes her degree. The other one is just "wintering" here since she normally lives in her car by choice. Getting proof of...

Goddammitsofuckingmuch. Also, if you don't know, you can only have a maximum of 10 PCs attached to your Microsoft account at a time, and a SEPARATE 10 PCs with access to the Windows Store.

Coca-Cola Zero Sugar tastes worse than Tab or Diet Rite and that is a hill I am prepared to die on.

Supposedly that's the big thing we get out of Adler Lake, with the Efficiency cores and all. I feel like I like AMD's full-fat "Cores are Cores" approach. If I were concerned about efficient cores I'd be entertaining Apple's M-series, but as it stands, I can use a Chromebook with a mediocre...

There are m90 models as well, which I think are called Tiny rather than Nano. The m75 is Ryzen-based and the 90s are Intel. They're available with i9s and up to 64GB RAM, which is a pretty serious PC so long as you don't need a GPU, and they support 2xnVME and a 2.5" drive. Everything with...

I've sighed and decided that I'll probably get a Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 4. The ones that have an RTX3050 can have two DIMMs and two SSDs in them, and I can get a WQHD screen on one, even if I'm not overly fond of a 16" laptop. I've looked through most of the offerings at around $2500 and...

The certs are usually viewed as a foot in the door or a qualifying component to a promotion. It's especially important for general IT, where 3/4 of the candidates for a role will have no academic training related to the position. A student I trained a couple years ago went from being a $14/hour...

I've been a big fan of the Lenovo m-Series Nano desktops. I have probably ~100 of them spread across various clients, and they're pretty easy to get as lease returned units as well. They're solid machines, but I do wish they had two more USB ports than they typically have.

This is dumb, but not unappreciated: Here's someone's installer package for the games that shipped with Windows 7. I'm a little concerned that there's no kind of checksum or signature on them, but technically they're redistributing Microsoft IP.

Apple has sole control over its platform. That's fine as long as you're in the "one size fits some" mindset they offer The good news is that if you have a device from an OEM that doesn't stonewall developers, you can actually get better software support from projects like LineageOS, but chances...

Here's an interesting read about the sausage-making that is trying to get Android updated, by some of the people who have to make it happen.

Security+ is something that is really only a big deal for people wanting to do IT work for governments. If you're actually going in to a security field, it's extremely basic, but also a lot more than most general IT people learn. A+ and Network+ are a good general purpose foundation for anybody.

I've been here 20 years, I'm only in-person at most one day a week and I don't have customer contact with anyone we have to care about. We did finally add a new employee last year, our graphics guy. He has visible tattoos that start on the backs of his hands and a facial piercing.

I'm thankful that Canon has its lens act mostly together, even if I can't afford the ~$2000 - $3000 MSRP on most of the RF lenses. I can't say I have any problems with Canon AF at or below 200mm, even on the collection of mostly adapted EF lenses I'm currently using. I've rented the 28 - 70 and...

I am trying to decide if I'd rather spend about $1000 on a drone with middling photo capabilities or if I'd rather get a consumer-grade long zoom lens like a Sigma or Tamron 150 - 600. The drone seems like it would lead to more interesting options in photography, but I'm also not sure if I'd...

Some people just photograph poorly. I'm like that as well. On the other hand I completely refuse to interact with Linkedin or anything else that smacks of social media so it probably doesn't matter. I also have blue and pink hair, something that my employer actively supports. Some of the models...

As far as I know there's no way to go from GPT to MBR but yeah the quickest thing would be to render some of the settings incompatible with the supported upgrade path.