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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...

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...