Recent content by Mercutio

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    Home NAS

    I'm still weighing my options since I don't particularly want to buy components for Aliexpress. The idea would be a local backup system for a customer who wants that to stay in-house.
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    Windows 11

    KVMs don't change all that much and new or oddball keys don't impact how they work. Copilot seems to be one of those things like Onedrive that will show up again even if you disable it, but it's also really easy to ignore.
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    Windows 11

    I just started using this thing specifically because I can bind a bunch of nonsense in my content creation applications to it. I have a Davinci Resolve Editing Deck as well but it's a little too big to go on my desk and share space with my drawing tablet. Many keyboards seem to treat the menu...
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    Windows 11

    Microsoft is changing the PC keyboard again. We're all going to have a Copilot key soon. I'm sure that will be great the very instant I figure out why people need copilot in the first place.
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    Home NAS

    Ideally, everything should be ECC. If you're on DDR5, it is. I've also long-since learned that if an OEM says their platform does something out of line with specs, it's generally true under at least some condition. That might require a particular set of HCL DIMMs, but if I'm doing anything...
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    Home NAS

    I was just about to say that as far as I know, nobody is selling the N305 as a barebones motherboard but no, there it is on AliExpress. Looks like getting the upgraded CPU adds about $100 to the system cost AND I'd have to get it from "Tan Lancheng Products Business Department" but that is...
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    Home NAS

    Something mildly obnoxious: Adler Lake Celerons are actually pretty respectable CPUs with extremely low wattage and it's pretty easy to find ITX boards with 2.5GbE and a Celeron N100, probably with a couple m.2 and maybe 4 or 6 SATA ports and an 8 lane PCIe slot. Perfect for a NAS build, until...
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    Video Cards

    iGPUs are always going to be about getting to some minimal level of capability, but for my purposes, anything that has the Codec feature set of Arc or Xe is giving me something that nVidia doesn't. It's the same thing with the Vega cores on AMD in integrated vs discrete hardware.
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    Video Cards

    The information may simply not exist, especially if you're zeroed in on DxO or Topaz as the tools you might be concerned with. The only generalization I know to be true is that there seems to be a significant performance improvement for between the 4060-series nVidia and the 4070-series in...
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    Video Cards

    If I'm using Resolve Studio, the correct answer right now is either an Intel CPU with an iGPU + a high end Radeon, or a Threadripper with both Arc and Radeon hardware. That's the only video editing application I actually care about. Premier is a crashy mess on Windows for reasons that seem...
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    Video Cards

    It's application specific. For Resolve, AMD is actually preferable to nVidia overall, but even that depends on assumptions in what is being processed and how; I still benefit from Intel because I want to preserve the chroma data from my camera. Adobe does very little on a GPU aside from things...
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    Video Cards

    Macs aren't better for video. They are well optimized and power efficient for it, but so is a Snapdragon 8 gen 3. I'm sure Apple Silicon is Adobe's primary optimization target as well, and that definitely helps both sides, but for GPU compute workloads, the mainstream M3 Pro is somewhere...
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    Video Cards

    I don't care if they are or not. I don't like Apple's architecture. More or less every computer I have ever owned has gotten RAM and storage updates over its useful life, and I definitely prefer to have dedicated GPU memory rather than letting it float on top of system RAM. I'm definitely not...
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    Video Cards

    The main goal I have is to find the right GPU for content creation acceleration. Probably LM as well. The field in this area is very uneven. Adobe does a lot with Intel Xe cores and RTX, but almost nothing with AMD. I have a theory this is because Apple was using AMD GPUs leading up to the...
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    Mirrorless Cameras (MILC) and Lenses

    Blackmagic Cameras are beautiful if you are the opposite of LM in terms of photo/video capability. However, the newer ones are not small, which is usually the thing Micro Four Thirds is good at. I only ever use my Lumix if I'm worried something might happen to a camera. It gets taken to...
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