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As far as I can tell, those cards are sold out EVERYWHERE. Apparently the next big news is the next generation Ryzen Pro AI Max nonsense-whatever APUs, which supposedly exceed a discrete mobile RTX 4060 in overall performance. I guess if there's one good thing about planet-killing AI energy...

Adobe is apparently increasing the price of its baseline Photography plan from $10/month to $15/month for users paying monthly. It's still $20/month to get the 1TB plan monthly and $120 for the plan if it's billed annually. I think Lightroom Classic + Photoshop is the cheapest package deal it...

Turns out Battlemage actually adds more advanced chroma support compared to Arc. 12-bit HEVC 444 is something you normally only find on cine cameras, not consumer mirrorless models, but it's there on the spec sheet. Sweet.

It looks to me like the GPU is momentarily spiking to very high utilization if I'm doing subject sharpen/face detection/noise removal. It happens if I feed even one image to Topaz AI and stays at nearly full load until it runs out of images to process. This might be an AMD driver thing; I don't...

I have decided that my RX 6900XT is too loud and I kind of hate when it spins up for just a minute while I send 50 pictures through Topaz Photo AI and it's briefly the loudest thing in the room. I'm kind of thinking that I could wire tie some 120mm fans to the existing heat sink, but I'm not...

There's still an entire world of portable players that don't say Apple on them. I carried a Sandisk Clip+ in my pocket for YEARS because they handled oddball formats like .ogg. They also stored progress in media files, which was great since mine had the entirety of "This American Life" on it.

Mild update which is that the Fiio does straight-up have the Play Store on it so you can install Firefox or whatever else you can get that runs on Android 10.

This is a DAS rather than a NAS but you can get an Orico 5 bay USB C (10Gb) 3.5" drive enclosure on Ebay sold direct by the OEM for $135 right now. That's a pretty good setup for your ITX PC or local, HDD-only backup system.

I tested the Massgrave.dev scripts by activating a trial version of Visio 2021 on an unactivated Windows 11 Pro for Workstations system on the worst Windows 11-capable laptop I have on hand. Just do this in an elevated powershell: irm https://get.activated.win | iex or irm...

Blackplayer works well on Android devices but for non-video podcasts, my recommendation is Pocket Casts, which works REALLY well with both Amazon and Google Home devices and can pick up and leave off on whichever assistant puck you happen to have. There are scads of tools that will download an...

Give him a bath anyway. It's like picking a fight with a blender but better to know now if he found any fleas or has any wounds.

I hear just enough sobbing from people who have Synology devices that it's too complicated to do X on one of those that I think there could be a real market for somebody willing to put together a turnkey package with something like HexOS at its core and maybe a JonsBro NAS chassis as a...

Piece of shrimp on a string? There's a mother cat who has her kittens every summer under a disabled man's car at my apartment complex. The car moves about four times a year so it's normally pretty safe for the cat. We (me and a couple downstairs neighbors) usually spend a few weeks convincing...

Not sure if this is more a Home NAS or Selfhosting Fun type comment, but HexOS is a derivative of TrueNAS with a simplified UI that would be incredibly appropriate for someone like Lunar. It launched as a commercial product over this weekend and seems to want to exist as an alternative to...

They work for my needs either way, and I do think that getting ~3060 levels of performance for around $200 has real appeal to a lot of people. "Budget gaming" is a thing that needs to make a comeback in a real way and that's not possible while nVidia and AMD want more for a GPU than a console...

Well that might be the most correct statement ever made here in the pub.

I do believe this will sound pants on head crazy but I believe this to be the case: The way that conservative politics worldwide works seems to be that tere's a group of billionaires with some form of niche interest in changing the way the world works. Some want widespread theocratic rule. Some...

Battlemage has had a couple cards leak now and looks like it will release in mid-December. The B580 actually has fewer execution units than the A580, but it's also a 12GB card that reportedly matches the performance for the A770 at lower peak power, and a couple sellers had them listed on Amazon...

My partner desperately wants to move but she can't remotely afford a place on her own. I don't want to buy a house and my lease is crazy affordable compared to getting a new one, so I feel stuck as well. Our closest friends live in Tampa and I'd move there but that's actually the market with...

I like the chassis layout but I don't think I'd be able to resist sticking a 3D printed mount for at least a couple SATA drives in there. I just made a little 1U board for my rack at home. It's literally just a piece of thick cardboard and a 3D shell with a couple holes for screws to keep the...

All your storage is m.2?

Every so often, I look at the parts drawers in my back bedroom and think if what I have just sitting around might be some kind of motherlode for you, sed.

I had to set up a PC for a fully blind person this morning. When I was a student, I had some experience with adaptive technologies, but almost entirely for people with limited mobility or functional but impaired vision. Fully blind is new. Their "monitor" is a $3000 bar that reads out 80...

I had a multi-paragraph response to Chewy here but somehow it isn't autosaved. I'll see if I can gather those thoughts again later. Instead I will just continue the news about Alex Jones by noting that there were only two bidders on Infowars. One of them was Jones, working through a shell...

Fortunately, most people probably aren't looking for an authentic Slot A with GeForce MX experience since stuff was pretty uniform on Win32 by then.

Trump administration officials are definitely people who think that it's really, REALLY important people know the distinction between pedophiles and ephebophiles because Matt Gaetz is only one of those things.

I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight that typically has 2 - 3 2 or 3 hour episodes per week devoted to what Alex Jones is ranting about, in part so I know what the evil parts of the country are thinking and in part because the hosts legitimately have a lot of insight into what the sphere...

The Onion bought Infowars, the media company owned by foaming conspiracy nutter and human lump of hamburger Alex Jones. This is probably the best news I've heard in approximately nine days.

Remember a couple months back when I linked to an absolutely insane ~800GB collection of DOS games? 86Box the tool to use with them. It's a specialized hypervisor that includes ROM dumps so that deeply specific hardware can be fully emulated. So your VM isn't just a Pentium 2 with a generic...

XP 64 was just mildly annoying for having crummy driver availability. I was big on advocating for Windows Server 2003 or SBS for getting a better overall high end desktop experience at the time. It was objectively faster and more or less everything you'd actually want to use with it was...

It was. At the time, the big selling point for me was that Matrox offered excellent drivers, including full Linux support in the mid 90s and had first-class RAMDACs for driving high resolution analog displays at insane refresh rates. Getting a 4 or 8MB video card was pretty decent in 1996-ish...

sed, How often are you printing from your retroPCs?!? There's some curious voter behavior that in every one of the "battleground states." There was a significant undervote on the Presidential ticket while votes were recorded for the US Senate. In other words, voters went to the polls and cast...

Humble Bundle has an "All Things Sid Meier" bundle up for grabs this week that includes Civ 3 - 6 with all their DLCs plus some old favorites like Pirates! and Railroads!, for an $18 donation. I haven't touched an actual Civ game in decades because of Alpha Centauri but it's the rare place where...

Again, don't use Meta services. A friend of mine gave around $3k, a few hundred at time over the course of a couple months, to some dude using a picture that was revealed to be on literally hundreds of Twitter and Instagram profiles. The aggravating thing is that my friend is a 25 year old...

I finally had an excuse to buy and use a 5700X3D in a build, as a drop in upgrade for a 2700X. I've had the CPU for a while, just no reason to do anything with it. The promise of AM4 is real. I think it's about 60% faster than the old CPU and it's working well on an x370 motherboard, keeping...

Solution: Don't use Meta products or services.

It's going to be worse than people understand. No one anywhere along the line will be able to stop any of the worst ideas the administration will have other than possibly Generals in the Pentagon, and even they will be reassigned or forced to resign until enough yes-men are put in position...

My partner has been crying on the couch the last two days. Democracy is dead. Be sure you use your human rights while you still have some.

I've never actually cared about RAID0 as a performance matter. I just did it to staple the capacity of a couple drives together. Windows will recognize and re-assemble dynamic volumes on other computers if all their constituent parts are connected.

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.