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Everything about X3D is optimized for gaming. If your needs don't line up with small and extremely low-latency I/O tasks, I doubt you're going to get anything really interesting out of the new parts. The best case is probably that they're the same speed as the xxxxX versions, but that hasn't...

Since most people aren't going to have the setup for using an Interchangeable Lens camera just to do webcam stuff, my serious answer is that even an old phone is a better webcam than about 90% of webcams, mostly because the phone will handle object tracking and noise isolation better than your...

AMD calls it RAIDXpert or something on Windows. I prefer using Storage Spaces to either of the above because I don't like dealing with the amount of nonsense involved in switching storage drivers on Windows (especially if you're trying to upgrade a PC with an Optane m.2 drive) but Storage Spaces...

You install the second keyboard layout on your computer and tell the OS to use one vs the other. In Windows you get a little button in the tray on the right side of the taskbar that you can use to toggle. I imagine that you'll prefer the physical layout match the keyboard you're less familiar...

Unless it's attached to a card with an actual CPU of its own on-board, it's software RAID, whether it's LVM or Intel RST on Windows.

Since you're dealing with software or quasi-software RAID and RAID0 at that, I don't think using a non-identical drive matters all that much. You're going to lose data if the array craps out and it's not like you're going to be worried about rebuild time or firmware oddities in your use case.

Can you try typing that again?

We just want our rat hole back. It was there for actual decades before anyone did anything about it, and it was well known enough to be a joke around Chicago for at least the last five years or so. Estradiol isn't illegal. It's a controlled substance in about the same way as a common antibiotic...

I have dozens of pictures of my partner leaving offerings at the Roscoe Village Rat Hole. Which was probably actually a squirrel. She was a big believer in leaving stuff for it. Usually at least a shooter (tiny bottle of booze). Sometimes food. Often whatever change she had in her pocketbook...

You could try FastCopy. I remember getting annoyed with it for some reason. Damned if I can remember why at this point.

robocopy has been part of Windows since the days of NT my dude.

I finally got my new cables and fired up the 7250. The damned thing is full of black particulates all over the inside. I'm going to have to replace the fans. At least that explains the cover over the SFP ports and probably the $75 price tag.

The truth is that any pizza is going to be a good pizza. Even deeply shitty pizza is good pizza. Like Pizza Hut is absolute garbage but sometimes it hits. I usually like tavern style better than deep dish (and people do pick that up and eat it) but it turns into a case of which component of the...

I'm not sure if you want file sync or backup software but for file sync, there's our good friend Robocopy. robocopy sourcedir destinationdir /mot:5 /r:50 /w:10 /zb /j /sj /copyall The reason we like Robocopy here is that we can resume incomplete copies and control many aspects of how the...

I am an observer to these things, since I hate gamepads and information-poor interfaces that are common to console gaming. Nintendo is overly litigious and actively refuses to sell huge portion of its game library on contemporary platforms because it apparently hates money and loves filing...

The limitations of food I can get locally are pretty frustrating. In the Gary area, we basically have Mexican, Pizza (locally, not even good pizza. Pequod's or Nancy's might only be an 75 minutes of Chicago driving away but that's still an undertaking) and GFS-grade Chinese buffets. There are...

LM is talking about his time leading CIA wetwork Ops again. I'm a big believer in getting novel cuisine when I can. Food is usually is usually a highlight of any trip to a major city. IMO, every culture on Earth has ain't kind of great food. You just have to go find it.

They're very weird hardware. The graphics are good, but they don't work with standard bluetooth audio for in-game headsets and only Seagate-proprietary drives are blessed for game install locations. You can plug in and use a SSD for media. You just can't install and run games on it. I can't...

Until the voting is over, we have to be nice to all of the people who live in the five states who get to decide whether we continue to have democracy or not. THEN we can go back to pointing and laughing at their lack of shoes and dentistry.

Halloween is stripper Christmas. The peak of cosplay season, plus we live along the beautiful coast of Lake Michigan for all the fall photo opportunities. I've been busy a lot this month. Ironically, Halloween itself was the only night in the past few weeks I didn't have anything scheduled. I...

Satellite Internet is not a fun time for having fun so much as the thing you get when you live someplace so misbegotten that no one bothers to put up cell towers nearby, like Alaska or or Nunavut. The latency is real.

If anyone happens to have Amazon Prime, right now Guardians of the Galaxy (on Epic) and Doom Eternal (on the Microsoft Store) are available through Prime Gaming. Also most of the Borderlands games.

My family was more about chess and board games. None of us can see for shit and we're all endomorphs who are, shall we say, built for love and not for speed. Not playing those team sports was probably the one positive contribution we could've made.

They're regular NVMe by physical interface. I guess they might have Playstation friendly firmware on them. You might want to check on that. Xbox drives well and truly piss me off. They're expensive and proprietary to the console and there's no other acceptable media for storing games on one...

Making things work is a useful skill no matter what field it is applied to.

What is the case you're using? I like those little 4 in 1 backplanes. I don't think SATA SSDs get so hot as to need the 40mm fans on them if there's otherwise decent airflow in the case. They are kind of a cabling disaster, but there's a lot to be said for getting hot swap bays someplace you...

I never played any. My town was so small there were only a dozen kids plus or minus two years of me. I wasn't related to anybody and didn't go to their weirdo church. PE was mostly just walking around a track as far as I remember. It wasn't exactly a highlight of my childhood.

Do you think they'll immediately abandon 75% of Windows users?

Microsoft will support your personal Windows 10 installation for an extra year for $30.

My partner likes American football but her team is Cincinnati for some reason, so she has to go to a sports bar to watch it and she's usually not THAT motivated. Football makes very little sense. Play starts and stops all the time and there's a timer and sometimes it's timing and sometimes it...

It's just asking to grab more telemetry. I can't think of a reason to allow that either.

I've been offered the chance to visit the broadcasting booth at Wrigley Field several times because of people in my social orbit, but baseball is like watching paint dry to me. I doubt there's 90 seconds of action in a whole game. If I have to watch a sport I'd rather see someone seek...

I think the only non-stabilized EF/RF lenses I have are my Sigma 50/1.4 and Canon 100/2.8 Macro.

Gesundheit.

I do have a bond for private work.

I think it's just Radeon DNA. I'm not sure what part of that is the deoxyribonucleaic acid part, but I'm not a marketing guy.

As with all things Sigma, it's bulky AF. It's forgivable for an everyday walking around 24-70/2.8 but the long lens is an extra-special complication.

It seems that we'll be seeing RDNA 4 and at least the higher-end Zen 5 X3D devices in January. AMD released its plans for CES today and it sounds like everything they have for next year is on that list. Edit: forgot the important linky part.

Funny thing about having the middle of my body turn purple was that I at least got some jokes out of it. I'm not gonna repeat any of them but stuff was looking pretty weird there for a couple weeks. Affordable, worthwhile insurance does not exist for me. My employer is exempt from offering...

I am glad that you will be OK. Broken ribs are awful, but there's next to nothing to be done. You just have to wait until they don't hurt any more. I do hope you get something out of this asshole but I've never been that lucky. I have been hit by a car 11 times in my life. Not my car, me, the...

I'm actually pretty excited that there's a new RF 70-200 because there will now be a meaningful market for used 70-200s, possibly even some that cost less than $1500. The telescoping 70-200 may be less durable than an internal zoom body, but it's also substantially smaller and lighter and of...

You were complaining about the occupation of a PCI slot.

I had to look at a picture of another Brocade to see. This thing had a (custom?) 3D printed cover fitted over the unoccupied ports. The occupied ports appear to have MTRJ transceivers in them, a fiber connector I've never actually seen in use before.

Both Intel and AMD have essentially moved reasonable graphics into the CPU. You can get a Ryzen 7500f and save ~$20 vs getting a faster 7600X with graphics, or use something like a 5700G with the AM4 system that's probably your backup to a backup PC right now and either way you'll get...

It looks like the ports 5 - 8 are blocked off with some kind of plastic cover. It didn't just pop off, so I'm assuming it's there for a reason.

I got my 7250. It only has four SFP+ ports on it, but that's more 10Gb ports than I have 10Gb NICs. My AOC cables are on a literal slow boat from China. "Arrival expected before December 6th." I ordered them two weeks ago. This is the price I pay to save $50 on cables. It does power on and seems...

I think Intel didn't see a benefit to having a high end desktop platform and so it's dead. Gamers don't need I/O and anyone whose needs are more serious can probably be bullied into contemporary Xeon or Threadripper, LM's complaints about core frequencies aside. I can live with 48 PCIe lanes...

The issue for the moment is that RTX 4080+ stocks have been depleted in normal retail, but very fast (for everything but CUDA and ray tracing) RX 7800+ hardware is readily available and finally in the realm of sane pricing, where I'd argue it should've been all along. An awful lot of gamers are...

I don't think it's crapping out. It seems fine in games as far as I can tell. Even if I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4k (AFAIK, this is still the gold standard for gaming stress testing and in fact it's the only contemporary game I have installed), it's able to keep up at playable framerates. It...

I make a new tape set approximately quarterly. Raw camera data stays on its card of origin, to Crashplan and on old SMR drives I have, since I have approximately infinity of them. Finished video projects go "where they need to", which usually means NextCloud or Google Photos and possibly...