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My understanding is that the Samsung 860 Pros were the last 2-bit MLC Pro-line drives in an easily obtained mainstream drive. Those are drives that can still be purchased new and are reasonably affordable, so they're my go-to for the moment. I know we're all excited about NVMe stuff but I've...

Handy: I have the $100 Canon adapter as well as a Viltrox cheapie that just kinda-sorta works. I've had zero issues with the Sigma 50mm 1.4, 18 -35 1.8, 24-70 2.8 or 70-200 2.8 on the Canon adapter. The Viltrox sometimes doesn't let me autofocus through the display but it's fine via the EVF, but...

The R6 has the same image sensor as the R5 and the 1DX2, with the R5's being tuned for higher resolution and the R6's being tuned for increased accuracy, especially for low light. Both have IBIS and both have Face and Eye Detection for both human and animal subjects. This works so absurdly well...

I really thought the R5 was overkill. Yes, you don't HAVE to take 45MP stills and there's basically no chance you're regularly making or editing 8k-anything. Looking at the feature set between the R5 and R6, the only thing I'd really wish for is 4k120 (1080p120 is coming in a firmware update...

I'm glad he's OK. I was genuinely worried. I wound up with enough of a photography side hustle this year that it's become self-funding, at least as far as my gear purchases go. I have access to prepress-grade and sublimation equipment and a couple plotters, so I can turn around prints if...

I am glad those who are here are generally well.

LM has a very common real name, almost as common as P5 did. I have some idea of where he lives but not a specific place.

I specifically wanted to message LM. I see that he hasn't posted in more than a year. He didn't reply to an email I sent to the last address I have for him, either. I don't have much else to say. I am glad SF is still an ongoing thing.

I upgraded to an EOS R6. I primarily shoot with the Sigma Art lenses I already had from the 5d2 I was using before it died. The autofocus is crazy good. I created 45GB of content and missed focus on MAYBE 50 stills out of 1600 that I took. I can shoot in pitch black and still get a usable image...

I'm not well compensated, LM. As I recall, dd's assistant makes more than I do. I like my job a lot because of the flexibility I have and the number of different hats I get to wear, plus the fact that stable full time/permanent IT gigs are not a thing that seems to exist, at least around...

Kids are a deal breaker, even grown ones. I don't have the life experiences at this point to deal with having to interact with someone who needs the approval of third (kid) or fourth (exes) parties to manage their romantic affairs. Hilariously, universally among other single people I know who...

Maybe split your job in to a few smaller ones, just to see if you only lose connectivity on specific files or somesuch?

This is also what I'm saying. I hang around with 19 - 30 year old girls because I like spending time with them and my credentials as a decent person have been established with them. They're completely off the table for dating though because I'm the same approximate age as their parents. I have...

They don't grow up. Truly. The nearly universal expectation is that relationship follows a casual affair. You have to practice dealing with that or deal with the consequence of not being able to.

sed, you're at an age where you still have to be around people who are your own age. Do. Not. Fucking. Waste. That. Go do things that involve people who are your own age. College has social opportunities that you will never see again. Maybe, if you're lucky, after college you will move to a...

I usually take off from work from my birthday in early December until after the new year, but this year I'm getting pretty hosed by that. I'll get 13 work days off plus one that would be a holiday anyway, but I'm actually going to wind up with an extra week of time off I can't use. Something...

That's the central premise of a lot of right wing political thought in the USA.

A non-destructive starting point is to encrypt and then reset the device. Having a spare phone around isn't a terrible thing.

The only errors I saw were simple path length issues.

Cost of the single project is not the only measure of its value. Rural electrification and public education are both drains on public coffers that still have immeasurable value.

I think Doctor Strange is an edge case where 3D is really cool and does add something to the experience, even if it's not the vertigo-inducing trip it might've been. Am I alone in thinking that 3D glasses kind of wash out color? The 2D screening seemed more colorful.

"I Got Mine and Fuck Everybody Else" might as well be the title of every Heritage Foundation Policy paper. The public good is a concept seldom recognized in their line of thinking, which leads to Louisiana's governor complaining about public research into Earthquakes and Volcanoes a few short...

I rate it five out of seven. It's an enjoyable movie but it's flawed. I think there's some pothead philosophy going on and it bugged me.

Doctor Strange: If you got the sense from the trailers that there would be amazing 3D... I wasn't sold. I saw it in IMAX 3D and while the visuals were as stunning and frankly trippy as they needed to be, this had the potential to be the closest thing to a theme park motion ride of any movie...

I do think it's kind of cool that you can get a $50 keyboard with enough programmable LEDs and the sequencing software to do a respectable light show. I do remember that cheap keyboards had real problems with Descent, so the idea of needing six-key rollover doesn't seem completely out of the...

I'm coming to the realization that adding "Gamer" to hardware really just means "we put funny color LEDs on something so we can charge you five times as much."

Well usually the gunfire is just a random shot or two.

Did anyone else get treated to two solid hours of neighborhood fireworks and/or random celebratory gunfire last night?

I'd kind of like to see Hillary win with 400 electoral votes, just so we can get another four years of republicans yammering that they just didn't nominate a conservative enough candidate. Who am I kidding? They'll do that regardless.

I was thinking $50. The "don't buy a Razor" comment is helpful since that's the one brand name that specifically came up. Gamer friend mostly plays LoL and clicky RTSes, but she's already got the fancy mouse of her dreams.

Anyone have a suggestion or opinion for a "gaming keyboard?" My first thought is to just buy one with ridiculous LED illumination. The person asking isn't concerned with mechanical springs and AFAIK the only other thing that influences whether or not a keyboard is for gaming is how many...

That sounds crappy Lunar. Hopefully it will bring good news.

I'm sure all the Teahadists who are not Mormons and in the House will love that idea.

I used to use SonicWall products because one of my customers had a Sonicwall system set up before I started doing work for them, but they're expensive to maintain and not as flexible as using Untangle, pfSense or IPCop. My customers aren't so large that running a security appliance in a firewall...

I just found this on Imgur, somebody else's "Coffin"-type wallmount design.

I think I pay about a $30 premium for being on a business plan and I just moved to 100/20 service, something that costs a whole $130/month. Comcast won't even give residential customers in my area a 75Mbit plan, but wants $130 for 50/10 "with 220 channels", so I'm A-OK with what they're doing...

1TB/month doesn't seem that much if you're streaming anything at 11GB/hour.

The Dot I have won't output stereo from its 3.5mm jack, or at least won't with the four things I've tried doing that with. It does from Bluetooth but I think that qualifies as something wrong with the one I was shipped. It also can't detect when external speakers are available and when they're...

Encrypt the stuff you don't want your provider to access. Do I care if somebody can see the pictures I took of my cat or know that I have a large collection of classical music? Not really. Are they going to do something with my mom's recipe collection? Doubt it. My medical info and receipts and...

My big problem with Backblaze is that they don't offer unlimited file versioning, something I'd get with most other backup tools I might want.

None of this would really be necessary if Amazon just had a decent client application in the first place. I suppose that's the trade-off for theoretically unlimited storage.

My parents live in a house that is specifically not part of the homeowners association for the other homes in the neighborhood; the person who owned the property originally didn't include their private home when they sold the rest of their land to a developer. They've been involved in a...

Here's a tutorial describing how to integrate NuGet providers like Chocolatey for Windows Package Management. You can just install Chocolatey directly, but this works with generic sources and as such you could technically roll your own repo or install from multiple sources.

Well the Dot plugs in to AC power so that would be a neat trick. The Tap is the one with a battery. I'm only mildly concerned about it, but I just realized that Alexa doesn't have a parental control of any sort. You have to trust that no one in your house is going to go on an Amazon shopping...

At the moment, I'm just doing a basic file sync of media files that more or less never change. Backup is another issue and I'll address that after my ~4.5TB transfer completes. I sent just under 1TB in 1 week at 10Mbps to Amazon, which is in line with what I think I should be getting given my...

That's deeply crappy, Chewy. I had something a bit similar happen, in that I lived for about a year beneath a drug dealer. But that's the sort of thing that really could happen anywhere.

I'm not a huge fan of my Echo, but I really like the Amazon Dot. The $50 thing with just enough speaker to give me news and podcasts + order stuff from Amazon makes more sense than the $180 thing with a fancy-but-not-even-remotely-nice-enough-for-the-money speaker. I can see why Amazon sells...

Looks like MalwareBytes bought Adwcleaner. I've been advocating use of both for some time, with adwcleaner as a quick clean-up/check up prior to a full scan with MBAM. I'm a bit troubled that having the detection engines come from the same people will mean that using both will be less useful...

Bad tape? Did you do a verify on your initial copy?

I've read up on it. In a lot of cases the easiest way for me to deal with it is to handle my file manipulation with shell scripts, but here's a case where I'm having to work with something external to my control. I can't imagine that Amazon Cloud has arbitrary path length limits, but both the...