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I think I can get 6 hours off a charge on my X1E if I keep the screen turned down. I don't ever really let it sit idle in a bag though.

It's my experience that Microsoft will continue to offer the upgrade every few weeks even on hardware that is compatible but using legacy boot. Legacy boot is, by definition, NOT compatible. I have a hard time calling a 7th gen Intel PC "old" (four years at the time Windows 11 was released)...

LTO6 drives are COMPLETELY affordable as second hand or refurbished devices. When the drives are $150 or $200, the curve looks completely different, and the biggest issue for backup/archival needs is just a matter of mindshare. Even at relatively small 2.5TB/tape, it doesn't take long to make...

Tape is by no means obsolete, but anyone using tape systems should be looking at buying at least two drives. Once you have a drive and you know that it works, the cost per terabyte is very low compared to any sort of fixed disk, and properly stored tape is the closest we're going to get a long...

PC DeCrapifier still works in both its 1.0 and 2.0 versions, so unless you're removing Windows Store apps, it's OK to give those a go.

I have been alone on the LTO hill for a very long time. Welcome, fellow tape backup tribesman.

From experience, my biggest issue with the larger screen of the X1 Extreme / P1 is just surface area. I had to have my photography bag modified a bit to accept the slightly larger screen than the 14" stuff I'm used to. The P1 gen 6 was JUST released. We have a long wait to see a new one. If...

Here's an extremely niche but useful tool: wineVDM. This is an executable wrapper that allows users to run 16-bit Windows software transparently on 64-bit Windows. I used it to get an ancient version of CorelDraw working. A lot of Windows software from the late 90s was 32 bit, but packaged...

That lens is very much in the someday category.

I've had enough weird things happen with scheduled tasks that these days I do everything with Intelliadmin Cron for Windows instead. Macrium isn't 100% free any longer, but older versions are and they still work just fine.

Threading will work correctly once you upgrade to Windows 11. There is no requirement that you have an account. I have two Windows 11 PCs that are not signed in to a Microsoft account. Both are still getting updates. Lenovo P1s weigh 4lbs, have 2x DIMM and either 2x m.2 (with an RTX 4050) or...

Windows 10 isn't fully supported by Intel Thread Director. You need to be running Windows 11 in order for the system to properly prioritize Pcores vs. Ecores. AMD is currently competitive in every aspect of laptop-grade CPUs and if you're dead set against Windows 11, you're probably better off...

If I remember right, I bought it for a build I never made. I Just opened the box after after I got an RMA'd ITX board back and realized i finally had something to do with it. It's a nicer chassis but it does have less than ideal cable management, but that's going to happen in any ITX case with...

A 28-70/2 could replace more or less all the standard primes from 24 - 85mm. I'd be giving up a very modest amount of speed vs the primes for a faster standard zoom. It's pretty unusual for me to shoot wide open on my R6, even in pretty crappy light. It's just a ton of value and utility. The R7...

I found 4x2.5" 5.25" Icydock enclosure in my car that suddenly made a BitFenix Prodigy with an Asrock X570 and a 6xSATA to m.2 adapter a pretty sweet tiny NAS setup. It doesn't help me with my 1U NAS needs, but it DOES have 5x3.5", 4x2.5" and 1x m.2 drives and it has an open 16xPCIe slot if I...

I'd really like to hear about a longer zoom with f/2, myself. I LOVE my 135mm but I almost never carry it. I keep thinking that I could sell all my primes (Canon EF 24/2.8, RF 35mm/1.8, Sigma 50/1.4, Sigma 85mm/1.4, Canon 135/2),and Sigma 24-70/2.8 and get a 28-70/2 for a reasonable amount of...

There is a $10/month plan gets someone Photoshop and Lightroom (Stupid version) and Lightroom Classic + mobile versions. That's the one I tried.

In Adobe-land, there's a product called Adobe Bridge that passes all the edits from PS to LR or LR to PS, basically using DNG as the intermediate format for everything. Lightroom doesn't do layers as such, but it has more editing features without even dipping in to Photoshop via selection masks...

There's only one control, which is a noise reduction amount. When I was playing with it, I was working on images taken at 12k+ ISO and mostly comparing the result with Topaz DeNoise. Lightroom AI is flatly better every time, but the restrictions it places on editing means that you're forced...

They're supposed to be high capacity budget drives. TLC NAND makes me a little nervous, but with 30TB of flash to work with, it's not like most applications are going to get anywhere near writing so much to have to worry about wear within the warranty period.

The AI Noise Reduction is its own process, separate from export. Everything so denoised comes out as a DNG.

IIRC, Lightroom Classic wouldn't work from TIFFs, only RAW or DNG files converted directly from RAW. I want to say that the full run for a 32MP image on my laptop was in the ballpark of 12 - 15 seconds, with my Threadripper consistently being ~2 seconds slower. It's not enough to complain about...

Half a terabyte-ish is definitely asking a lot for a remote sync. I'm not sure what the best case is for mobile hardware content creation right now, but photo applications definitely do a lot less with GPU than they probably could. Could be that Intel with Iris Xe (12/13th gen Intel +...

WD says it'll have a 28TB drive without any of that weirdo HAMR stuff by next year. Not as exciting as a 32TB drive with laser beams in it, but CMR is decades-proven technology and that probably has some appeal as well, even though I weep for the poor bastard who gets stuck with WD's version of...

My laptop is also 11th gen Intel and has both Intel and nVidia GPUs. Capture one doesn't seem to ever stress more than four cores and never seems to use more than ~30GB RAM, even though I have 64GB. I'm under the impression that photo processing apps are all roughly similar in this regard and...

I never drove the thing but they DID put some kind of limiter so we couldn't go faster than 85mph, once we found a place to safely try that. I didn't feel that impressed with it. I'm REALLY not a sports car guy, but I've been Rolls or Bentley cars a few times. THOSE I can see where the money...

Having been in it, I don't get the appeal. We're going to drive up the shore of Western Michigan a way tomorrow and we took some photos in a parking garage and at a car wash last night, but we found the self driving feature to be SCARY in city traffic, which is the only time IMO you really need...

Yesterday's episode was absolutely complete mood whiplash, too. I can think of one episode of DS9 or Voyager that showed the reality of terrestrial warfare for the Federation and here they were make Dr. M'benga a stone cold killer with Rambo in "First Blood"-grade PTSD. You don't hear "I wasn't...

Remember that your Mac's RAM is 32GB - whatever the GPU is doing. Run a 3D game with enough complexity and maybe the CPU only has 16GB to work with. PC gamers are complaining about GPUs with only 8GB RAM, so it doesn't seem terribly far fetched there there will be some workload that will be an...

The $120 5700Gs are a lot of computer for the money, especially as a last upgrade for an A320 or Bx50. They're not quite on par with a 13100 with DDR5 but it's really hard to complain when they work with seven year old hardware. As far as getting new Apple SoCs, it really comes down to being...

Has anyone else been just loving the ~50% price drop on 5000-series Ryzens? I sure have. Linus Tech used his Scrooge McDuck money vault to buy an M2 Mac Pro to see what can be done with it. The short answer is that it'll take Network and Disk HBAs and possibly proprietary accelerator cards for...

The Lower Decks / Strange New Worlds crossover episode was released last night during San Diego Comic Con, five days ahead of schedule.

... and then it turned out that the early access version of BG3 doesn't work very well with controllers, which is what Steam Link led me to believe I needed to use. Now I'm just annoyed.

I have three or four that I can try. I know that an Asus USB NIC works with 2022 server and I'm PRETTY sure I have some generic USB hubs with Ethernet that work as well. My roommate won't let me play BG3 without her, which has led me to something weird and disgusting: I need to set up a...

Fleet needs. Sometimes it's useful to buy a bunch of $150 PCs that I can resell as $300 computers.

It might be possible to mod the install.wim with drivers with the automated deployment kit or possibly just a little fun with powershell. Honestly, I'd probably still try the USB NIC first. Seems like less work. Or make someone pay for a real NIC if you don't already have some sitting around.

Apparently, Asus is going to handle design and manufacture for future NUC products. I don't have a good history with Asus but I'd probably trust it more than I would Beelink. Lenovo M715q are the tiny units I like best. They have 2nd-gen Ryzen mobile CPUs, (and thus Vega-whatever graphics)...

Personal computers are traditionally single-user desktop or laptop form factor devices. A Mac or Amiga has just as much claim to that description as something with a Pentium chip. PCs typically have a multitude of ports for inputs and outputs and use a keyboard as a standard interface. That PC =...

A MAC is a Media Access Control address. A Mac is a semi-functional PC with all the upgradability of a pocket calculator.

These are more or less the steps I follow to add unsupported NICs. I've also found that Windows Server doesn't have a problem with USB NICs. I have a bunch of those sitting around that are good for 1GbE so they're not a bad option, either.

There are definitely ways to get an inexpensive and valid Windows Server license and I really don't care if buying one that way is hurting Microsoft somehow.

I do not remotely get the love for shitty Bethesda games using that engine but my roommate loves them. Fallout 3 and 4 and Skyrim are all unplayable messes to this day if you're playing the game as it was delivered, even on the extra-special diamond uranium game of the decade edition. This is...

You use Storage Spaces using ReFS, something that's available with Windows Server. You can create a double-parity volume using a pool of seven drives minimum (plus a cache tier if you want faster drives for that). Storage spaces are kind of weird because there are fewer tunable parameters than...

Basically the same thing. I don't actually want the HBA doing RAID calculations. I'm perfectly happy to let software do all the RAID calculations and use something that's well understood and portable to other hardware without needing an extra $900 controller. Plus it gives a couple of the 48...

I don't know how much you know about this, but Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition branched off down two paths. One of them is the TSR-WotC-Hasbro IP that is currently 5th edition D&D. The other is a continuation of the 3.5 edition rules and completely separate lore and now a newer but VERY SIMILAR...

This part of the USA primarily has tornados and ice storms. When I was little, I experienced a near miss from a tornado. It traveled through a corn field that was less than a mile from my house. The same tornado wiped the next town down the road (all ~three dozen houses, church and school) off...

The event my roommate is working this weekend, Windy City Smokeout, physically blew away event areas from wind gusts, has been damaged by hail and is also dealing with an expanding sinkhole in the United Center parking lot. She's a plague of locusts and a sea of blood away from full on Book of...

ORD is a pain to get to if you drive. It's not a big deal at all if you take trains.

I'm usually looking for more for wireless connectivity in dicking stations, but big kudos if someone manages to work Thunderbolt into the name of theirs. re Surface: I like them as devices for students and that is how I am most familiar with them, but I do think an individual needs to pay for...

There's a whole lot of nothing out by Cicero but you can ride the Orange Line in to downtown if you want to get downtown. I don't mind going to O'Hare myself, but as obnoxious getting there can be, I have actual mental scars from going to Midway: my father decided the perfect driving lesson for...