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The S24 is supposed to get seven years of updates. That's quite substantial, and the biggest reason I chose it over an A54. I do believe phone warranties are basically useless, but Samsung has its own coverage plan that DOES include accidental damage and replacement in the event of loss or...

Presumably dd wants to do other things with his camera besides videoconference. He has a kid. People usually like to take pictures of those, even if they aren't as fun as dancers or cats. It is endlessly amazing to me that the lowest-quality images of my partner (born in 2000) over her entire...

Price-insensitive does seem to be dd's thing. :cool:

I haven't built one for myself but I have put together a few 7x00 systems. I had RAM weirdness with two of them. One of them got better by disabling the iGPU. The other I wound up swapping a 4 DIMM G. Skill kit for a 2 DIMM Corsair kit. There's something weird with DDR5 on AMD, especially past...

Definitely concur about audio, but its pretty easy to do right for talking heads. As far as relying on subject AF, it's standard operating procedure for many Youtube creators and twitch streamers. There's a Youtube Channel called Camera Conspiracies. The creator that runs that channel is...

We'll probably get Zen 5 in September, but from what I've heard, it's mostly a refinement over Zen 4, with the only real change being higher IPC and a smaller lithography process, but no change in number of cores or clock speeds. We should probably be thankful that AMD hasn't switched the P core...

I believe the standard behavior is to only apply drive encryption to the drive where Windows is installed. I'm not sure what happens if you distribute your personal data elsewhere, but it does not seem to encrypt removable drives unless you tell it to.

A newest and bestest best Intel desktop CPU was released today. The 14900KS can hit 6.2Ghz on its P-cores vs. 6GHz for the 13900KS or 14900K, all a peak TDP of 280W and an MSRP of around $650. I think that finally brings it up to a teensy bit better than the 7800X3D for gamers, but being 1%...

I'm not that deep into SQL Server, but it's miles better documented and easier to deal with than Exchange and Sharepoint. It's well behaved and stable and these are things we like to see.

You absolutely can if so choose. Microsoft makes the choice for you if you choose to create or initially sign in to a Microsoft account on Windows 11 though. Users can go and turn it on or off either way. Nothing stops them from doing that. 95% of Windows 11 users don't know the encryption even...

My partner is the kid in this case. Phone SoC (System on a Chip) include the combination of CPUs, which in the mobile world are usually a combination of high performance and low performance cores; Wifi and LTE/5G transceivers; and some kind of GPU. Most phone handsets use a combination of Av8...

I don't have a nice enough Sony to tell what its contemporary subject detection does, but if I just leave my R6 in (human) eye detect mode and tell it which subject to follow, it defaults to eye then face then head then body. I can't think of a better order of operation for it.

No. Bitlocker is a regular feature on Windows 11 Home as well. Maybe S-mode, too, although it doesn't start encrypting your drive until you sign in with a Microsoft account.

3D as in GPU, LM. My partner watches Tiktoks on her phone screen in preference to all other forms of media. Even using a larger tablet is too inconvenient for her. The kids are really into that stuff.

OneDrive is definitely an uninvited and unappreciated guest. If you uninstall it without doing anything else, it'll be back after a the semi-annual major Windows release, so there's a couple other things to be done (in Registry Edit form since jtr probably doesn't have Windows Pro) reg delete...

I hate that this is a video, but it does raise some interesting points. The short version is that if you look at sustained benchmark performance over multiple runs, you'll see substantial differences over time. That makes sense, but it's interesting to see how quickly performance can collapse...

Hey if the eye detection on your camera is worth a crap, you might not. I think it means Canon really thinks there's a huge market for AR/VR video for some reason?

MSSQL is far and away the most common back end for line of business applications developed for Windows. It's not my favorite thing either, but my biggest problem is that very often there's no actual DBAs helping to build that software, just poor choices by clueless developers using baked in...

Silverstone still offers traditional desktop cases. The GD11 is a big roomy boy that can hold a 240mm radiator and has room for an RTX 4090. The Grandia series cases have a very normal ATX desktop PC profile, similar to the computers we all using around 1995.

SQL Server is better. Visual Studio is better. I like Windows 10 and Server 2019 better than Windows 7 and Server 2012r2.

Get a 50/1.2 and the background will be so blurry no one will even know what's behind you. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

It does still have an SD card slot and five years of updates. That's four more years than you'll get from anything that says Motorola on it.

The original reason I bought a 35/1.8 lens was for videoconferencing/training sessions. I don't have a 100% dedicated space for doing it at home, and I wanted a relatively narrow field of view so I didn't have to clean too much of my office (which, as one might imagine, looks like a computer...

I see. It's fair to say that more or less none of the stills-first crowd like Leica or Hasselblad have a lens ecosystem that lives up to your needs either.

It gives Nikon credibility in cine cameras that it otherwise did not have before and possibly the patents it needs to stop using Sony for all its sensors. Basically, it can be a full camera company again. TV and movie production might not like losing an option on their side of things, but Arri...

Apparently, Nikon is buy Red. Maybe it'll finally start making sensors again.

I make more money from editing video than anything else that's directly camera-related. My copy of Resolve Studio is paid for and I haven't really wanted anything else to go with it from the software side of things. I'm using kind of a lot of my side hustle money for a trip to Puerto Rico or...

Copilot is the AI dingus that's supposed to replace Cortana, I guess. I don't know what people do with it. I've gotten Google's thing (used to be Bard but now it's Gemini) to summarize long youtube videos. It does a decent job of that. I suppose all the AI things can handle that though.

It sounds like the R5ii is going to be as much of a meh upgrade for current R5 owners as the R6ii was for R6 owners. Maybe the new SoC will be amazing, but is it worth $3500 - whatever the resale value on an R5 is? Who needs a mechanical shutter, right? I don't really like software phoning home...

Capture One still has the option to buy perpetual licenses, unlike some giant evil imaging empires. They're $300 with discounts if you upgrade frequently. I let Topaz expire. Whatever improvements there have been in the last year definitely haven't added up to $100 worth of added value to me...

Has anyone used Microsoft Copilot for even one single thing ever?

I flip the screen out so I can use my left thumb for focus point selection. That makes more sense for me as a left handed person anyway. Every camera has too much shit on the right hand side anyway. The rest of that isn't a huge deal for me personally.

I still have a hard time with the distinction between the R6ii and the R8 as it is. Is a second card slot worth $500? Maybe there's an improved sensor on the way, but I feel like those tricks need to start at the R5 line.

The A5x don't have flagship Qualcomm SoCs, nor quite as much RAM. I can't directly compare the battery life myself. I usually end a day at 50 - 60% battery life, though I seldom let it drop below 30%. I don't see any way to adjust the display colors except that there's an adaptive mode that...

Pretty sure they still used a mirrorless camera for it. :P They kind of glossed over the central fact of the problem, which is that the drone only had enough battery to keep that pace for three minutes, barely enough time to run that lap. They said they dropped the weight of the drone by 10%...

There are people complaining that specifically the Vivid mode isn't as vivid as it was on the S23 models. and some people think the battery life isn't any better. Coming from an S20 with an old battery, I can't say. I just wish I had an SD slot. The A5x phones are never going to be the...

I can't believe there's such a thing as an independent GPU repair specialist, but here's this guy on Youtube explaining the realities of having a fat ass RTX 4090 in horizontal mounting. Watching a couple of his videos, I have serious respect for a guy willing to de-solder and re-mount a...

Dutch team builds an FPV drone faster than an F1 car for very special track footage. Prepare for tons of Red Bull Product Placement.

In act 2 of Tosca, Floria Tosca stabs Baron Scarpia to death after he makes it clear that he will only free her lover from prison in exchange for her virtue. She then breaks out one of the most iconic arias in all of opera, which in English is "I have lived for art, I have lived for love." It...

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore...

I was entirely outside the nice, warm car. My partner was both driving her little car around and posing with/on the car. She's quite taken with it. We've had a very strange winter. All of December was over 50F. January was mostly 20s and 30s. This month, the temperature spread has been from 0F -...

It does have heated and cooled seats. A Mini Cooper is surprisingly affordable and practical for someone who spends a lot of time driving into the north side of Chicago. She's quite taken with it, and at $25k fully loaded it was cheaper than the Civic she looked at. I'm using an Altson...

Remember that I'm shooting people, sometimes in motion, rather than wildlife (I suspect they will often move faster than humans do), which is a different set of needs. If I leave the R7 purely in human subject detection and eye AF, that by itself will get me enough keepers to say it's...

To my way of thinking, the A7rV, Nikon Z8 and Canon R5 are all hitting around the same US$4000 ballpark with strong hybrid features. Sony has the clear winner if you're really looking for that high resolution sensor and seems to be the better choice for video AF when compared to Canon and Nikon...

45MP is plenty of resolution if you ask me, but Canon not having anything better in mirrorless is a little sad given what Sony has on offer. This is a dead simple and cheap tool for field backups. It could be further enhanced with an m.2 daughterboard, but an Rpi like that is a little bigger...

My reasoning for getting proper tri-mode HBAs is that commonplace 2.5" SATA/SAS SSDs definitely top out at 4TB. I can still get 1DWD drives, which I see as a goal of any server drive life cycle. I don't particularly care about the PCIe data transfer rate (is it over 500MB/sec? Then it's fast...

At a guess, there are more QLC NAND m.2 OEMs are probably looking at their offerings as most appealing to consumers, just as HDD vendors mostly market and sell SMR drives at the consumer level.

Kingston offers a 2 DIMM 96GB DDR5 6000 CAS 32 with EXPO support, part number KF560C32RSK2-96. Crucial has a 2 DIMM 48GB DDR5 6000 kit, but not a 96GB kit. G. Skill and most of the other big players seem to have EXPO RAM with DDR5 5600. I will admit that I don't know why the 12 / 24 / 48 /...

I'd take it. Those Broadcom controllers also top out at 12Gbps, which which is clearly less than ideal for a PCIe gen 4 drive anyway.

I thought I saw support for u.3 in the product brief. It's easy enough to check that, but even u.2 opens up the option to get higher density and endurance drives than consumer stuff. As for 3D printing, I have access to a maker space. A zillion years ago, I knew how to use CAD well enough to...