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If you're using it on a tripod, aren't you supposed to disable the lens IBIS anyway? I had special access to a pre season NBA game this weekend but "special access" meant a VIP suite behind one of the baskets rather than court side. I had a 70 - 200 but nothing longer. 3x zoom didn't really cut...

You are definitely overestimating my willingness to work on a 20 year old printer. I'd probably give any of the early models of Laserjet a shot at repair but IMO if any other printer lives for more than five years we bow our heads and say goodnight. I will say that current HP color lasers are...

My ancient but still functional Tektronics Phaser 850 died today in the most spectacular way possible. The power supply had a flame out. I wasn't even home to see it, but one of my roommates turned it on to print something, something that happens about three times a year. Not much to see from...

Ars doesn't totally hate the high end 7x0 Intel Alchemist GPUs. $330 to get an A770 that's in the same ballpark or maybe a little faster than a R6600XT or 3060Ti. Unfortunately, we can buy R6650XTs for $300 without trying very hard, but who knows what the discount off MSRP will be once these...

The impact of it being JBOD or RAID0 is functionally the same. I just used the hardware to make a volume instead of using storage spaces or LVM within the OS in order to have a large enough space to work in. I wouldn't have bothered if 4TB consumer drives were affordable.

Google Japan produces 1.5m straight line English keyboard. For some reason.

Just a fun reminder to toss in that Intel expects 13th gen i7s to draw 250W.

It's a volume I created with the X399 firmware. It doesn't NEED to be RAID0 because it'll never be running so fast that I need 5GB/s+ transfer rates, but I did want the single volume to be large enough to not have to worry about capacity. If that volume craps out, it's not the end of the world...

If you're holding still and braced, there's almost no camera shake, at least with my friend the R6.

Here's an example: I have four top level "Pictures" folders. Pictures\ Photos Inputs Internet Outputs Photos are personal images that I've downloaded or saved from elsewhere. Inputs are where SDcards go when they're imported, plus temp folders for TIFFs and other working space...

Losing hardware doesn't help when I'd be out my workstation for however long it takes for them to get around to replacing it, plus having to fight over whether it was installed correctly in the first place. Which I assure you they will do. I'd be more than a little out of sorts to lose a $2000...

I think consumer desktop platforms are built on the assumption that everyone wants, at most, a discrete GPU or two and perhaps a NIC. Not everyone has Thunderbolt or USB 3.2 or wants all their expansion to be external. I think it's an actively poor choice for extra drives. LM, Windows has a...

My threadripper tops out at 68C and all of this makes me really excited for what happens when they put these improvements toward the hardware that has enough PCIe lanes to be useful. Seems like there might be both thermal headroom AND gains from the updated architecture. Apparently AMD thinks...

Zen 4 looks pretty good compared to 12th gen Intel. Higher power than Zen 3 but every CPU has graphics now and the overall TDPs are still lower than what Intel is doing. I only glanced through productivity benchmarks but it looks fairly convincing as a generational improvement.

That's the guy you tell to buy a Macbook.

The biggest place for improvement in GPU computing is as far as I can tell from video editing packages. I have Magix Vegas 19 and Resolve Studio that both work a lot faster at almost everything when there's a discrete GPU on hand, with the amount of "fast" definitely tied to the capability of...

The big names in Crypto have moved to proof of stake rather than proof of work, so these aren't hugely appealing to them any more. Gamers aren't going to see much benefit in this generation unless they're gaming across multiple monitors. Relatively few games support that AFAIK. As usual...

RTX 4090 and 4080 were just announced. The 4080 has a draw of 700W for the base model, which is WELL into insane territory IMO.

I got it to load with Vivaldi with a Chrome User agent.

AMD is usually pretty good about having products in the channel after an announcement. Historically, at least. I'm cautiously interested, but I also know I have actual scads of spare DDR4 sitting around and I'm probably going to build systems around that before I start dipping in the DDR5 pool.

Snapchat is finally available directly on the web. This is a huge deal for me, and maybe no one else. Before now, I've been running a remote app view from my phone to see Snapchat. Even better, the web version of Snapchat can operate concurrently with the mobile version; prior to this, only...

Almost all my 10TB+ drives are Exos or Ironwolf. I don't really notice the noises they make, but it's not like they're X15s, either. They live in a rack that's shoved into the back of a walk in closet. I'll probably be replacing the 8TB SMR drives that make up the bulk of my storage for at least...

I have no idea. Outlook, like iOS and Western Digital, is a thing that should not be tolerated to exist. Gmail/Android allows a custom notification sound based on labels and labels can be handled with conditional modifiers, so it's pretty easy to make my phone beep in particular ways. I don't...

I'm most annoyed that I've been entirely in favor of ChromeOS as an alternative to full-fat desktop OSes for a lot of people, and that's only true if ad blocking is possible.

There's also a lot of reflexive hate from a certain component of RWNJs who don't like Mozilla-anything because the whole org staged a revolt over their CEO's (I think. It's been ages) donations to anti-queer organizations. I switch between Firefox, Vivaldi and Chrome for the most part. I feel...

I actually customize the shit out of notification noises on Android, so I know who is emailing me.

Here's a longish, technical-ish discussion about what Google is planning to do at the beginning of 2023. The short version is "fuck over a lot of content-blocking tools." These tools remain central to security in my opinion. No one should be on the web without them. That already means using...

I've had a paid app, Accubattery, for years and years that limits battery charge. That is at least an option.

I'm very often shooting video handheld. I had been using a gimbal, but that was sold for the R7 fund. Handheld with IBIS and lens stabilization is usually very good in my experience. I've called stores around Chicago and Indianapolis regarding the R7. They have them, but only with the lens kit...

I haven't. I'm getting antsy about it. I ordered one direct from Canon and I haven't had any update on it. There's an iphone 14 Max coming here soonish as well. I'll bet it shows up before my camera does. I went over to the park near my house to take photos of my roommate playing on playground...

Northwest Indiana is not a safe place for cycling. Not even a tiny bit. I live in a gentrifying but still pretty scary area. Places that sell groceries a ~10 minutes away at 60mph (Gary, where I live, has one supermarket within its city limits. It's on the far side of town from where I live and...

I currently have two long-term guests. One of them is my quasi-SO. The other mostly chooses to live in her car when she can get away with it, but she has a key to my place and can come and go if she wants a shower and/or a safe place to be. My second friend recently had a bit of a windfall, and...

That would in no way surprise me.

That's an issue with literally every camera phone, but Google's version does a good job of getting close to neutral contrast and dealing with poor light.

There's a lot of debate on Reddit's Android forums about the merits of various ARM SoCs, but I wouldn't recommend reading anything there as the most likely outcome is that you'll be annoyed by every single thing every other poster says. Unfortunately, I don't think any of us handle enough...

Some or other rebadged LSI SAS HBA. Lenovo calls theirs ServerRAID M5200 these days.

Anecdotally, I was willing to buy Cyberpower UPS hardware in the early part of this century, but I had a unit die in a spectacular enough fashion that there were actual sparks and a room full of smoked electronic smell. Might've been a one-off. I just let the rest wear out and then get replaced...

I will continue to recommend a Samsung A5x for someone who just wants an all around decent phone. You should be able to find one for about $400.

I have a 20-something year old rack PDU that is undoubtedly overkill for my needs, along with a several 3000VA UPSes. I change the batteries every couple years and they've been fine. One of them is Tripp-Lite, the others are APC. My UPS units have all been salvage, something someone was getting...

There is definitely a video explaining how to take your phone apart on Youtube. The guy doing it will have tools you probably don't, and it might involve a hair dryer or something, but it can be done. Often at a cost of your phone's water resistance. There's no world where I'd believe LM is on...

I don't charge for photography, really. Everything I get to do is for fun. Some people do insist on giving me money but it's not because I even asked them to. I do rent lenses from time to time, but I already know the R7 will be better than the RP I sold to pay for it. I'm looking forward to the...

I have a spare PC, a Ryzen 5900 that shipped with one of those Wraith coolers, set up in my dining room. Main roommate and emergency backup couch roommate both appreciate having a big boy computer around. Most of my house has Hue color LEDs or other app controlled lighting of some sort or other...

It looks like I'm not going to get my R7 until December. We're using a 12MP Lumix as a second body right now. It's like stepping back to the stone age with that thing.

I use Intel P4500s for continuous backup and database dumps. They are TLC drives that top out at around 3GB/sec writes but they're affordable and use a convenient 2.5" form factor. I'm sure I have at least a few dozen in service. They've all been extremely well behaved.

I have a 3700X that has an actual bad physical core, something I've never seen before. I've been messaging AMD back and forth about it for a little while now. It's the second one of that CPU in particular I've had go bad somehow, where I've historically found bad CPUs to be a once every five...

Many of my friends have two phones. One for their actual, real lives and a second one for a more visible and public persona. The thing I will say is this: If there are aspects of your life that need to be segregated, it is helpful that your devices be distinct from one another. You may also...

My Element had a defect that my mechanic had never seen before. A tiny sheath that sits along the axel of my car apparently traps water and, given that I live in the midwest, road salt. My axel actually rusted clean through at that point and broke while I was at speed. I had no idea what had...

Here's an article from the MIT Technology Review about the transperson who is most directly responsible for the adoption of nonbinary-representative emoji.

You can remove the encryption if you'd like. It only takes a few minutes to decrypt a whole SSD. Whole drive encryption used to be a feature only in the more expensive versions of Windows, so I was surprised to see it on machines running Windows Home edition. The question of what happens with...

There's an issue now with Windows 11 that can prevent systems from booting under some circumstances. When installed on a new PC, Windows 11, even Home edition, now encrypts drives by default. Assuming the user can remember their Microsoft Account info, they can sign in to their account on...