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Holy shit dd is here. When did that happen? LM, did you take a look at the Cooler Master NR600P? It has hotswap bays as part of its default config.

In other mildly Ryzen-related topics, I just bought a dozen Ryzen 2400Gs for $30/each. I was just planning to buy a few to cover the B350 and B450 boards I have spare, but a 2400G is a pretty respectable client PC. Considering that it's still possible to find AM4 Athlon CPUs that cost more than...

I got used to not having AC a long time ago.

I don't have usable AC anyway. Were I by myself, my wintertime thermostat would probably be set as low as possible, but that doesn't work for my roommates. I am RIGHT on the tip of Lake Michigan, and when the lake is cold, everything here is cold. My file server takes 5 - 10 minutes to become...

I view leaving my PCs on as a built in cost of owning them. I suspect the three PCs that stay on are probably 40% of my power bill, but in my case that is A LOT of computer.

I took my cat Sugar to the vet this morning. I thought I was going to have a wart removed. The vet looked at her, told me she needed an X-ray and more or less came back to tell me she had every kind of cancer. The last of my cats is the anxious three-year-old. He's been looking and calling...

Wait. You guys don't just leave your PCs on all the time?

If you don't care about video acceleration at all, the RDNA2 cores on 7000 series hardware are plenty; RDNA2 supports decoding both h.265 and AV1, so it's good for the foreseeable future.

New Year's day in the US is the day every store starts putting out Valentine's day stuff.

AMD soft-launched some power-limited and less expensive 7000-series Ryzen CPUs this week. They run at most more reasonable TDPs, under 100W, and can still be manually tweaked with increased power to get similar levels of performance. A 12c/24t 65W CPU looks pretty sweet to me.

You might want to check WD's diagnostic software to see what's up with it. It's not impossible that Device Manager could see it as a generic drive or drive name, if the driver or firmware ID matches something else it knows about.

I use PCIe cards to add support for extra addressable nvme drives. I just dedicate them to different I/O tasks with the idea of spreading out disk writes to improve drive longevity. I do have a 4TB RAID0 of nvme drives but that's honestly just to get a single large volume rather than any...

Youtube definitely wants to put some of those channels in front me me, no matter how many times I tell it "Not Interested."

I don't see anything for Gigabyte X670 motherboards that is from Gigabyte itself, but Crucial lists the modules it has qualified itself.

Goddammitsomuch. nVidia is also dropping support for Gameslink. One of the nifty things you can do with an nVidia Shield set top box is stream any supported game from a PC already in your home. Importantly, that meant that it worked with games acquired from GoG or Epic or good old-fashioned...

He's talking about Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, a PC Gaming focused Youtube channel that seems to perpetually have infinite money and a staff that includes full on machinists and engineers and workshops dedicated to their craft. ddrueding was a big fan as well. I have watched his...

Only 16 more shopping days until Tet! My social circle includes someone who celebrates Tet AND someone who celebrates Diwali AND All Souls Day (Mexican day of the dead) for reasons related to her ancestry and she is the same person. Which I think is really damned cool.

Every single thing in my chassis is pretty hot and nvme drives are among the hotter elements on a motherboard anyway. I suspect you're going to have to do some amount of trial and error to figure out what works best. Last time I was running a video encoding session, I think my on-board drives...

Canon, Sony and Panasonic all use 422 Luminance and Chrominance in their video raw and standard output formats in their mirrorless cameras. It's not a resolution issue but a color space issue Keeping 422 rather than switching to 420 means that I'm better able to do color grading, which is...

The most recent update I got for my Galaxy S20 finally gave me back a control to set which audio device plays notifications. I had that control up to Android 8 or 9, then lost the ability afterward. Samsung put it back in Android 13. I'd been simulating it with increasingly complicated Tasker...

Happy New Year, also.

No hair is at least a valid option. My older brother started losing his hair by the time he was 30. These days, he does the clearly-unfortunate combover where he keeps hair from one side of his head far longer than the other. That's the look I can only pity.

Native encoding and decoding of video has become the driver of my upgrade choices. Particularly in knowing that "none of the above" is the strongest contender. There are a couple Quadro RTX cards with support for h.265 422, but they also cost as much as a small car.

Canon Log or h.265 output is 10-bit 422. There are no plans from any GPU manufacturer to offer support for that particular level of chroma sampling, although 10-bit 444 and 420 ARE supported on all the newest GPUs. Intel iGPUs (but not Ark), high end Snapdragon and Apple M hardware DO have 422...

Apparently the Compute/$ ratio on the 4070s is at least in the realm of sanity, but I still don't see myself getting an $800 video card that has no idea what to do with the native video output from my cameras.

A lifetime of not being in the sun definitely helps as far as wrinkles, as does abstaining from smoking or drink. I just turned 47 myself and given my choice of unnatural hair colors and my social circle, I'm usually mistaken for someone in my early 30s. The matter of my hair is partly a case...

The fastest Arc is somewhere around an RTX3060 or 3060Ti in terms of benchmarks. It's also a little bit cheaper.

I've tried several but I've passed the ones I don't like as well on to builds for other people. I know for sure I have a couple Be Quiet units in my chassis right now.

Apparently, if you're doing video encoding work and you have an Intel CPU with graphics and one or more Arc GPUs, Intel's architecture allows all of the above to be used at the same time. Arc GPUs have apparently had some pretty serious driver improvements since launch. I believe they still...

There are heat sink shells you can put around your m.2 drives. Sabrent makes heat sinks that include copper heat pipes. They aren't cheap but they really do help.

My father has Platinum membership. I'm not sure exactly how. It's been years since he's been on regular flights, but he may just have THAT many frequent flyer miles or a credit card that that keeps him up there. Sometimes I can convince him to book a flight on my behalf and I reap the benefit...

I want to say that 6TB is no weirder than any other amount but also that 6TB seems like an insane amount of work in progress. But then, so does 4TB. On the other hand, I have a few video projects that have over 100GB worth of associated files and I could see that backlog stacking up pretty...

Every so often, my father will share his Delta Platinum whatever lounge access and free miles with me, which has been great when sub-optimal public transit schedules have kept me at O'Hare longer than I'd like, but in general the thing I want to say is that Spirit has been solid in every way I...

I'm sticking with the R7. I have two great camera bodies and the upgrade would be fairly marginal. I'd get a lot out of a Canon 28-70/2. I have a set of Sigma EF 24, 50 and 85mm/1.4 primes +the RF 3.5/1.8 that I could probably sell to that end, but I really love all those lenses. In any case...

Several of my family members are also deeply hosed right now as well. I sincerely hope there's a very nice "Maybe you shouldn't be in business any more" from the Department of Transportation in their near future.

Basically as long as the chipset is from the same family and you're using the same primary disk controller, Windows should be untroubled by a hardware switch. You'll have to reactivate any time you switch a motherboard unless the NIC connected to the internet did not change. Windows 10 and 11...

There's some grumbling that content creation applications are better optimized for Intel, still, but the waters are muddy enough between the two to shrug and pick whichever. Most of the advice about what to buy right now is aimed at gamers and their needs are different regardless. In general...

You're missing out. There's tons of gorgeous lighting and there are lovely surroundings all over a cruise ship.

It's very possible to pick up stupid expensive office chairs for very little actual money. Herman Miller status trophies wind up on auction sites all the time, and if you know NOT to look for those, you can do even better, because those are the ones everyone looks for. I picked up an X-Chair a...

I believe it is more correct to wish for an adequate airing of grievances on Festivus. I was supposed to have a gathering on the solstice but there was a goddamned blizzard. I'm not exactly complaining but I have about 4kg of standing rib roast work work through in the next few days.

All the U.2 bridges I see are for a bare drive with U.2 interface to USB. None seem to offer an enclosure, although a 2.5" form factor is somewhat more protected than an M.2 drive. MLC drives of substantial capacity are available. You should have all sorts of options opened up once the...

All the units I've looked at are just a straight attachment for a drive, but I don't see that as a problem for a 2.5" SSD; you can buy a little case to put it in when you aren't using it.

At this point, the first question to ask Mac people is why they came to you instead of taking their shit to Apple. Either it's too old for Apple to look at or they have something weird going on that deserves additional explanation.

I found myself missing the fast aperture a lot more than I thought I would, but I will say that conditions aboard a cruise ship generally led to some absolutely killer golden hour lighting, above and belowdecks both. I was able to get photos uploaded to Google Photos from my devices within 8...

The main reason to have a Mac around for servicing computer is that a Mac is explicitly the only way to EASILY and LEGALLY download MacOS. Unfortunately, You're only legally able to grab MacOS versions that you've claimed, so older releases that are widely compatible with Macs one might have to...

Maybe you could look at a u.2 to USB bridge? That would open up your options somewhat.

Hackintoshes are very hacky and miss out on some of the stuff that makes MacOS interesting. Airdrop might not work, for example. I'd say Macs aren't particularly interesting either, but I primarily interact with them from a terminal window and have no need of the mobile integration tools, so I'm...

I spent $40 on a subscription to CuriousityStream, in part because it includes the cost of Nebula, a sort of creator-driven extension of Youtube. Nebula operates on the lure of creators who already make content people like. CuriosityStream is just a huge collection of curated documentaries...

Actually, I didn't know it could identify leaves. My plant identification stops at knowing what poison ivy, oak and sumac look like. It's absolutely KILLER for quickly importing all the recipes mom wrote out on index cards in 1972 though.

I am really surprised how many people don't know about Google Lens. One of my customers was going to buy a $500 dedicated book scanner to handle OCR. Lens can pick up text from a photo, even handwritten text, and put it all on your clipboard. Just paste it in to a Google Doc or something, with...