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I'm not sure if you want file sync or backup software but for file sync, there's our good friend Robocopy. robocopy sourcedir destinationdir /mot:5 /r:50 /w:10 /zb /j /sj /copyall The reason we like Robocopy here is that we can resume incomplete copies and control many aspects of how the...

I am an observer to these things, since I hate gamepads and information-poor interfaces that are common to console gaming. Nintendo is overly litigious and actively refuses to sell huge portion of its game library on contemporary platforms because it apparently hates money and loves filing...

The limitations of food I can get locally are pretty frustrating. In the Gary area, we basically have Mexican, Pizza (locally, not even good pizza. Pequod's or Nancy's might only be an 75 minutes of Chicago driving away but that's still an undertaking) and GFS-grade Chinese buffets. There are...

LM is talking about his time leading CIA wetwork Ops again. I'm a big believer in getting novel cuisine when I can. Food is usually is usually a highlight of any trip to a major city. IMO, every culture on Earth has ain't kind of great food. You just have to go find it.

They're very weird hardware. The graphics are good, but they don't work with standard bluetooth audio for in-game headsets and only Seagate-proprietary drives are blessed for game install locations. You can plug in and use a SSD for media. You just can't install and run games on it. I can't...

Until the voting is over, we have to be nice to all of the people who live in the five states who get to decide whether we continue to have democracy or not. THEN we can go back to pointing and laughing at their lack of shoes and dentistry.

Halloween is stripper Christmas. The peak of cosplay season, plus we live along the beautiful coast of Lake Michigan for all the fall photo opportunities. I've been busy a lot this month. Ironically, Halloween itself was the only night in the past few weeks I didn't have anything scheduled. I...

Satellite Internet is not a fun time for having fun so much as the thing you get when you live someplace so misbegotten that no one bothers to put up cell towers nearby, like Alaska or or Nunavut. The latency is real.

If anyone happens to have Amazon Prime, right now Guardians of the Galaxy (on Epic) and Doom Eternal (on the Microsoft Store) are available through Prime Gaming. Also most of the Borderlands games.

My family was more about chess and board games. None of us can see for shit and we're all endomorphs who are, shall we say, built for love and not for speed. Not playing those team sports was probably the one positive contribution we could've made.

They're regular NVMe by physical interface. I guess they might have Playstation friendly firmware on them. You might want to check on that. Xbox drives well and truly piss me off. They're expensive and proprietary to the console and there's no other acceptable media for storing games on one...

Making things work is a useful skill no matter what field it is applied to.

What is the case you're using? I like those little 4 in 1 backplanes. I don't think SATA SSDs get so hot as to need the 40mm fans on them if there's otherwise decent airflow in the case. They are kind of a cabling disaster, but there's a lot to be said for getting hot swap bays someplace you...

I never played any. My town was so small there were only a dozen kids plus or minus two years of me. I wasn't related to anybody and didn't go to their weirdo church. PE was mostly just walking around a track as far as I remember. It wasn't exactly a highlight of my childhood.

Do you think they'll immediately abandon 75% of Windows users?

Microsoft will support your personal Windows 10 installation for an extra year for $30.

My partner likes American football but her team is Cincinnati for some reason, so she has to go to a sports bar to watch it and she's usually not THAT motivated. Football makes very little sense. Play starts and stops all the time and there's a timer and sometimes it's timing and sometimes it...

It's just asking to grab more telemetry. I can't think of a reason to allow that either.

I've been offered the chance to visit the broadcasting booth at Wrigley Field several times because of people in my social orbit, but baseball is like watching paint dry to me. I doubt there's 90 seconds of action in a whole game. If I have to watch a sport I'd rather see someone seek...

I think the only non-stabilized EF/RF lenses I have are my Sigma 50/1.4 and Canon 100/2.8 Macro.

Gesundheit.

I do have a bond for private work.

I think it's just Radeon DNA. I'm not sure what part of that is the deoxyribonucleaic acid part, but I'm not a marketing guy.

As with all things Sigma, it's bulky AF. It's forgivable for an everyday walking around 24-70/2.8 but the long lens is an extra-special complication.

It seems that we'll be seeing RDNA 4 and at least the higher-end Zen 5 X3D devices in January. AMD released its plans for CES today and it sounds like everything they have for next year is on that list. Edit: forgot the important linky part.

Funny thing about having the middle of my body turn purple was that I at least got some jokes out of it. I'm not gonna repeat any of them but stuff was looking pretty weird there for a couple weeks. Affordable, worthwhile insurance does not exist for me. My employer is exempt from offering...

I am glad that you will be OK. Broken ribs are awful, but there's next to nothing to be done. You just have to wait until they don't hurt any more. I do hope you get something out of this asshole but I've never been that lucky. I have been hit by a car 11 times in my life. Not my car, me, the...

I'm actually pretty excited that there's a new RF 70-200 because there will now be a meaningful market for used 70-200s, possibly even some that cost less than $1500. The telescoping 70-200 may be less durable than an internal zoom body, but it's also substantially smaller and lighter and of...

You were complaining about the occupation of a PCI slot.

I had to look at a picture of another Brocade to see. This thing had a (custom?) 3D printed cover fitted over the unoccupied ports. The occupied ports appear to have MTRJ transceivers in them, a fiber connector I've never actually seen in use before.

Both Intel and AMD have essentially moved reasonable graphics into the CPU. You can get a Ryzen 7500f and save ~$20 vs getting a faster 7600X with graphics, or use something like a 5700G with the AM4 system that's probably your backup to a backup PC right now and either way you'll get...

It looks like the ports 5 - 8 are blocked off with some kind of plastic cover. It didn't just pop off, so I'm assuming it's there for a reason.

I got my 7250. It only has four SFP+ ports on it, but that's more 10Gb ports than I have 10Gb NICs. My AOC cables are on a literal slow boat from China. "Arrival expected before December 6th." I ordered them two weeks ago. This is the price I pay to save $50 on cables. It does power on and seems...

I think Intel didn't see a benefit to having a high end desktop platform and so it's dead. Gamers don't need I/O and anyone whose needs are more serious can probably be bullied into contemporary Xeon or Threadripper, LM's complaints about core frequencies aside. I can live with 48 PCIe lanes...

The issue for the moment is that RTX 4080+ stocks have been depleted in normal retail, but very fast (for everything but CUDA and ray tracing) RX 7800+ hardware is readily available and finally in the realm of sane pricing, where I'd argue it should've been all along. An awful lot of gamers are...

I don't think it's crapping out. It seems fine in games as far as I can tell. Even if I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4k (AFAIK, this is still the gold standard for gaming stress testing and in fact it's the only contemporary game I have installed), it's able to keep up at playable framerates. It...

I make a new tape set approximately quarterly. Raw camera data stays on its card of origin, to Crashplan and on old SMR drives I have, since I have approximately infinity of them. Finished video projects go "where they need to", which usually means NextCloud or Google Photos and possibly...

Given that contemporary Intel iGPUs are made of the same Xe cores as the dGPUs, I think it's safe for this upcoming generation at least. Scuttling Battlemage would also be killing software support for an important part of its CPUs and that does NOT make sense. Intel may be looking to get bought...

You can ignore the requests for payment info if you are getting free software. Many people too young to have any sort of payment info do this. I'm also a fan of the fdroid (FOSS) app store and Amazon also runs a reputable store for Android software. Some application developers, such as Firefox...

I'm happy with Gboard because most Android keyboards don't offer dictionary import. If I didn't like Gboard, I'd far rather investigate an open source option before paying $25 for something many of the FOSS keyboards also provide by default.

There are a crap-ton of open-source keyboards out there that I'd be prepared to trust over somebody's $25 Android luxury whale option.

I've definitely put it through its paces with 100% GPU and RAM utilization. Maybe the problem only happens when I'm using hardware encoders? It doesn't seem to happen when I fire up a game though. I'm willing to chalk it up to something stupid about its software stack. I can swap in my A770...

I usually acquire a bunch of drives at once. I test them for around a day before I do anything else.

I often test three or four drives in one go.

I usually run Seatools long generic drive tests through 5 - 10 cycles when I first get a new mechanical drive. Seatools is kind of nice for letting these tests run in parallel, which is one of the reasons I like using it that way.

I do see a difference from the RX6900 and other video card I have: Every once in a while, it'll stop updating video playback if I have the card doing something resource intensive, by which I mean video editing. The audio still happens, but Youtube/VLC/Kodi just gets stuck on a particular frame...

Funny thing about LTO is that older tapes are WAY cheaper. I'd love to have those 20+TB tapes but I'm pretty happy but I'm OK paying $10/tape and just using more of them.

There's Swiftkey, which has nothing in particular to recommend it other than not being Gboard and is the reason Microsoft killed Swype after it acquired it, and dozens of deeply stupid emoji keyboards. I suspect Swiftkey is giving the same telemetry to Microsoft that Gboard gives to Google...

I think they're trying to steal some thunder from Intel.

We will continue the discussion of LM's contributions to both American imperialism and The Bourbon Review shortly but we have a launch date for Zen5 X3D, November 7th, as well as mention of ~10% price cuts on non-3D Zen 5s real soon now.