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It absolutely is, especially for people used to mobile devices. This is also why I absolutely hate OneDrive on Windows.

People do not understand storage.

Bad guys compromised WD's cloud storage services and WD doesn't know what they took yet.

Cosplay is an enjoyable hobby for a lot of people, especially those with a background in fabric arts, makeup or crafting. It can also be a way to stand out for people trying to raise their profile on social media, and there's a path to success as an e-girl or adult model that starts with a...

I do a lot of things that add up to a full time job, which is more or less how my professional life has always worked.

Astro is something I'd love to do but the Chicago area is the most light-polluted place on Earth. There's a pink-purple haze everywhere within probably 100 miles of the city, even on the darkest nights. I saw a pro yesterday taking cosplay photos who had three R5s strapped to his body and my...

I don't even want ONE phone. I don't think anyone should buy iOS devices. They bought me a company mobile phone some years ago. I just never turned it on and it was eventually taken to replace another phone when it was broken. My company does not have my cell phone number. They have the number...

My company would subsidize only if I accepted an iphone.

It was a T-mobile MVNO that offered an unlimited* data plan for $30/month if paid annually. I'm currently on a Sprint employee plan, but there are more and more caveats to that plan and what I can do with it, as well as some new fees that raised the price for my phone plan above $30/month I've...

Samsung says S22s get Exynos in all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and whatever Russian satellites. The S23 does have a Qualcomm SoC in Euroland, though. Are you sure you didn't get an imported US phone? There is some demand for those, as they're widely known to be the superior option. I...

It's not that hard to stitch a pano shot. I had the opportunity to take some photos from the 20th floor of an apartment building in Tampa. I used about 60 shots to get a nighttime view of the bay. I guess it's neat to do it in camera, or if it can be done for a single subject, but I wouldn't...

They're supposed to be a compromise between the U (ultra low voltage) and H (High performance) mobile CPUs. but the NUC is technically a desktop. They couldn't stuff the high performance mobile CPUs in a device that could literally be made out of heat sink? I'd rather have m.2 + 2.5" drive...

From everything I read about it, US S-series Samsungs have locked eSIM capability. It's not model specific. Snapdragon = no eSIM. I hope that's gotten better since the S20, but that's the explanation I was given. I believe that the Snapdragon SoCs have better support for US LTE and 5G bands...

Be happy there's a second drive option at all. The P series CPU is kind of a fail, too.

The 135/2 was giving a can't communicate with camera error that I couldn't clear. I took it to my local camera shop. They're looking at it. I like the Sigma 50/1.4 better than the Canon EF 1.2. That thing is pillow soft wide open. The Sigma is a favorite of mibe for almost all uses. The Canon...

I get to go to a professional basketball game tonight. We're getting waved through security by an executive for the team and we're allowed access to courtside before the game. I've been told that we can bring cameras, which are normally banned by the facility, and use them during practice AND...

The problem goes away if I shoot mechanical, but so does my ability to capture more than 10 frames in a second. If I use electronic first curtain or fully electronic, it's a progressively larger problem. Apparently Sony cameras don't have an issue with this. I don't know if that's because they...

Hilariously, a lot of phones in the USA with carrier specific models have eSim functionality blocked in the OS. This is particularly aggravating with Samsung because it makes phones with Snapdragon (good) or Exynos (not-so-good) SoCs. The Snapdragon models are only sold in the USA and Korea, and...

1/250 is pretty normal if I'm trying to freeze motion in bad light, which is usually the goal for a burst shot. I'm trying to get a stage dive in mid-air, glitter off the top of a snare drum, long hair flying around etc. Even 1/200 will probably result in a blurry mess for some of that stuff.

Tmobile uses a normal SIM that you could swap with any other normal carrier. If you buy from a carrier, it'll be carrier-locked until you complain enough to make them unlock it, and only if you aren't on a hardware purchase contract.

Stage lighting these days is usually but not always LED-based, but I'm finding that not all lights are ACTUALLY constant, even when the production people tell me they're using such and such LEDs that are 1KHz or 2KHz or whatever, and you have to remember that stage lights are often also moving...

The issues with hardware compatibility are largely gone since Sprint's CDMA network was retired and LTE and 5G carriers are essentially compatible other than specific outlier bands each carrier in the USA uses. OEMs don't have to make models with different transceivers any longer, so I'd fully...

Tmo will support the A-whatever. And it'll be a good phone with a great screen. Everything will be one step down from S-series at about half the price.

It's not from the objects moving too fast, but the lighting.

Rolling shutter is the bane of my concert shooting as well,

Back in April 2020, my apartment building had a fire in one of the units. I was on my elliptical when it happened, and I could just BARELY hear the alarm from that came from the other half of the building. The alarms on my side didn't go off. My place is a few blocks from the closest fire...

My roommate is on the other side of your position, jtr, which is also why I say "roommate" or "quasi-SO" rather than some term of greater endearment. She wants to remain independent in her life after learning the lesson that people take advantage if someone can provide, and that's something I've...

Apparently, nVidia has improved its hardware encoder to the point that anything Maxwell or newer (and not an -MX) can now encode five inputs simultaneously with NVenc. Before, the encoder could only handle three streams at once. No support any of the stuff I care about, but it's probably...

The California Zephyr (Chicago - San Francisco) is apparently the absolute jewel of functional Amtrak runs, although I've been told that doing it without getting a sleeper berth is a bad call. When my friend lived in Reno, she'd take the Reno - Denver leg to meet up in a place much cheaper for...

I have a friend in LA who is an employed as a TV comedy writer and my roommate knows a bunch of people who work for the Upright Citizens Brigade. One of the specific appeals of LA would be a guided tour of the various comedy clubs. I also have some San Fernando area contacts who would model for...

Isn't LaGuardia the second tier option for NYC anyway? Like flying in to Midway in Chicago or John Wayne in LA? I'm mildly annoyed that I've never been any farther into California than Lake Tahoe. I have friends in Southern California but between those people and the folks I know who are FROM...

Allegiant has regularly scheduled flights from Tampa, Clearwater and Orlando to South Bend International Airport, which is a hilarious name for an airport with three runways and nine gates. I'm perfectly happy going through O'Hare but taking off from SBN is a 15 minute walk to the train + a...

There's a lot wrong with Michigan, but the drive up the Eastern shore of the lake (roughly I-136 to US 31) is absolutely gorgeous and other than two weeks around the end of September, a clear and easy trip with scads of cheap vacation rentals and places to get interesting photos. I like to drive...

I'd say that it depends on your expectations. I like having access to group policies and remote desktop and I always assume that Windows computers have those things, but home edition doesn't. You can use things like VNC or use various tricks to enable proper RDP, but I'd rather just have it...

Something I just found out is that the firmware ID string overrides the online Windows activation database. I have an Asus Zenbook that I switch up for making and testing system images and I just noticed that when I applied the Win 11 Pro image that should activate through online entitlement, it...

In 2019 and through 2021, several of my close friends had some kind of commitment ceremony. I wound up standing up for the bride (Bridesmaid? Bridesman?) at each service. I've only attended one wedding as a guest since my cousins have all done the two minutes at the courthouse thing, done one as...

The Fits? Samsung makes a theoretically faster model with a similar form factor but I've had a lot worse luck with Samsung memory cards and thumb drives and I try to avoid them. The basis for my tech tools are Easy2Boot Hiren's BootCD Strelec's USB Boot disk Strelec in particular bears...

If you REALLY want to fix it for all time and don't mind breaking out a bazooka, you can force the matter with a group policy object. Here's an article that explains it. The GPO overrides any BS Microsoft does, even with full OS upgrades. One of the companies I support uses NitroPDF Pro on...

The Fits probably top out about 75MB/sec writes. Before we were all spoiled by SSDs, ~150MB/sec (the read speed; usually more important for my needs) was basically "as fast as a hard drive", which is good enough for my normal needs. I keep a bunch of them handy for tech work. One that's set up...

Another reason I like those SanDisk Fits: they survive a washing machine just fine. The reason I put them all on lanyards and a key ring is that I have washed my flash drives more times than I care to admit.

You'll have your default Mail, Web Browser, Image Viewer and Media Player set to a default Microsoft application. If you have software that's known to be incompatible with Windows 11 (eg Flash Player), it'll be removed. You'll be pressured to make a Microsoft account if you don't have one...

The current Core CPUs night be too hot for the little VESA box form factor. The little NUCs don't have a whole lot of cooling built in at all.

I'm not going near a wedding again. The expectation of gear, lack of cooperation from subjects and inability to understand why a photographer is present in the first place are all reason enough for that. Let the people who have all the gear and years of putting up with bridezilla handle it...

From what I've read, it at least performs better than Luminar. As far as a generic wishlist photo editing tool, my biggest current need is basically something that could magically apply fixes to hair. Flyaways, frizz etc. I suspect every portrait and wedding photographer in the world would...

Anything that goes on any sort of external storage is temporary at best. My main need for them is to 1. comfortably carry in my pocket. 2. Hold disk images and boot environments 3. Transfer data from old systems to newer ones. I have a bunch of them on a pair of key ring attached via lanyard...

Large flash drives. I have a bunch of 250 and 500GB Sandisk Fit drives in my pocket most of the time.

I only ever saw USB integrated interface drives from WD. Really. It was a lot more common among the 2.5" models than 3.5", but I saw it with both. I will also say that plugging a problematic external drive in to an internal interface fixed a problem maybe 20% of the time. That's not a bad option...

Denoise is the only one of the tools I use. I don't even have PhotoAI installed. I paid for an extra year of updates and we'll see if that's worthwhile.

He does have big pointy ears though.

Spork is an overly enthusiastic, friendly idiot. He looks like this: My older cat is Spatula. Spat is about four years old now. He's shy and permanently anxious, having come from a house full of blind Great Danes. The funny thing about Spat is that he is very visibly a big, muscular cat and...