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Snapchat is finally available directly on the web. This is a huge deal for me, and maybe no one else. Before now, I've been running a remote app view from my phone to see Snapchat. Even better, the web version of Snapchat can operate concurrently with the mobile version; prior to this, only...

Almost all my 10TB+ drives are Exos or Ironwolf. I don't really notice the noises they make, but it's not like they're X15s, either. They live in a rack that's shoved into the back of a walk in closet. I'll probably be replacing the 8TB SMR drives that make up the bulk of my storage for at least...

I have no idea. Outlook, like iOS and Western Digital, is a thing that should not be tolerated to exist. Gmail/Android allows a custom notification sound based on labels and labels can be handled with conditional modifiers, so it's pretty easy to make my phone beep in particular ways. I don't...

I'm most annoyed that I've been entirely in favor of ChromeOS as an alternative to full-fat desktop OSes for a lot of people, and that's only true if ad blocking is possible.

There's also a lot of reflexive hate from a certain component of RWNJs who don't like Mozilla-anything because the whole org staged a revolt over their CEO's (I think. It's been ages) donations to anti-queer organizations. I switch between Firefox, Vivaldi and Chrome for the most part. I feel...

I actually customize the shit out of notification noises on Android, so I know who is emailing me.

Here's a longish, technical-ish discussion about what Google is planning to do at the beginning of 2023. The short version is "fuck over a lot of content-blocking tools." These tools remain central to security in my opinion. No one should be on the web without them. That already means using...

I've had a paid app, Accubattery, for years and years that limits battery charge. That is at least an option.

I'm very often shooting video handheld. I had been using a gimbal, but that was sold for the R7 fund. Handheld with IBIS and lens stabilization is usually very good in my experience. I've called stores around Chicago and Indianapolis regarding the R7. They have them, but only with the lens kit...

I haven't. I'm getting antsy about it. I ordered one direct from Canon and I haven't had any update on it. There's an iphone 14 Max coming here soonish as well. I'll bet it shows up before my camera does. I went over to the park near my house to take photos of my roommate playing on playground...

Northwest Indiana is not a safe place for cycling. Not even a tiny bit. I live in a gentrifying but still pretty scary area. Places that sell groceries a ~10 minutes away at 60mph (Gary, where I live, has one supermarket within its city limits. It's on the far side of town from where I live and...

I currently have two long-term guests. One of them is my quasi-SO. The other mostly chooses to live in her car when she can get away with it, but she has a key to my place and can come and go if she wants a shower and/or a safe place to be. My second friend recently had a bit of a windfall, and...

That would in no way surprise me.

That's an issue with literally every camera phone, but Google's version does a good job of getting close to neutral contrast and dealing with poor light.

There's a lot of debate on Reddit's Android forums about the merits of various ARM SoCs, but I wouldn't recommend reading anything there as the most likely outcome is that you'll be annoyed by every single thing every other poster says. Unfortunately, I don't think any of us handle enough...

Some or other rebadged LSI SAS HBA. Lenovo calls theirs ServerRAID M5200 these days.

Anecdotally, I was willing to buy Cyberpower UPS hardware in the early part of this century, but I had a unit die in a spectacular enough fashion that there were actual sparks and a room full of smoked electronic smell. Might've been a one-off. I just let the rest wear out and then get replaced...

I will continue to recommend a Samsung A5x for someone who just wants an all around decent phone. You should be able to find one for about $400.

I have a 20-something year old rack PDU that is undoubtedly overkill for my needs, along with a several 3000VA UPSes. I change the batteries every couple years and they've been fine. One of them is Tripp-Lite, the others are APC. My UPS units have all been salvage, something someone was getting...

There is definitely a video explaining how to take your phone apart on Youtube. The guy doing it will have tools you probably don't, and it might involve a hair dryer or something, but it can be done. Often at a cost of your phone's water resistance. There's no world where I'd believe LM is on...

I don't charge for photography, really. Everything I get to do is for fun. Some people do insist on giving me money but it's not because I even asked them to. I do rent lenses from time to time, but I already know the R7 will be better than the RP I sold to pay for it. I'm looking forward to the...

I have a spare PC, a Ryzen 5900 that shipped with one of those Wraith coolers, set up in my dining room. Main roommate and emergency backup couch roommate both appreciate having a big boy computer around. Most of my house has Hue color LEDs or other app controlled lighting of some sort or other...

It looks like I'm not going to get my R7 until December. We're using a 12MP Lumix as a second body right now. It's like stepping back to the stone age with that thing.

I use Intel P4500s for continuous backup and database dumps. They are TLC drives that top out at around 3GB/sec writes but they're affordable and use a convenient 2.5" form factor. I'm sure I have at least a few dozen in service. They've all been extremely well behaved.

I have a 3700X that has an actual bad physical core, something I've never seen before. I've been messaging AMD back and forth about it for a little while now. It's the second one of that CPU in particular I've had go bad somehow, where I've historically found bad CPUs to be a once every five...

Many of my friends have two phones. One for their actual, real lives and a second one for a more visible and public persona. The thing I will say is this: If there are aspects of your life that need to be segregated, it is helpful that your devices be distinct from one another. You may also...

My Element had a defect that my mechanic had never seen before. A tiny sheath that sits along the axel of my car apparently traps water and, given that I live in the midwest, road salt. My axel actually rusted clean through at that point and broke while I was at speed. I had no idea what had...

Here's an article from the MIT Technology Review about the transperson who is most directly responsible for the adoption of nonbinary-representative emoji.

You can remove the encryption if you'd like. It only takes a few minutes to decrypt a whole SSD. Whole drive encryption used to be a feature only in the more expensive versions of Windows, so I was surprised to see it on machines running Windows Home edition. The question of what happens with...

There's an issue now with Windows 11 that can prevent systems from booting under some circumstances. When installed on a new PC, Windows 11, even Home edition, now encrypts drives by default. Assuming the user can remember their Microsoft Account info, they can sign in to their account on...

Final observation on the X1 Extreme? An RTX 3050TI mobile is the fastest mobile graphics I've had in a laptop but it does almost nothing for any of my content creation software; I think Topaz Denoise and Sharpen are faster on the CPU than the GPU, or else they aren't using the GPU even when I...

At home on my big computer I have one Dell Ultrasharp 4k display, one QHD (2560x1440), both 32", and one AOC 32" QHD screen. AOC and Asus usually offer very good value for the money, and most of the other monitors around my place are 22" Asus FHD IPS panels. I probably have six or seven of them...

Shady Amazon reseller seems to have done me right. The warranty from Lenovo started July 29th 2022. This system wasn't sitting around in a warehouse anywhere, apparently. I wish I'd done this instead of waiting six entire months for Lenovo to not ship me one. Six screws get the bottom off an X1...

Warp definitely worked with standard SCSI and ATAPI drives. I can't speak to what you're using right now, but I IIRC OS/2 was the first OS I installed off a CD-ROM. Maybe your could copy your OS install media to a secondary drive and try installing from that?

If I have to work on a spreadsheet (note: this is not something I do), it can wait for a computer with a full keyboard. I'd RATHER have a 14" screen than 15", but I the thing I just bought is actually closer to 16", just to get the rest of the specs I need. I will say that I have USB3 to...

Also, my order for an extremely backordered Thinkpad X1 Extreme was canceled on July 1, which Lenovo didn't bother to tell me. I only just took the time to look today after seeing the post I made about it in February. It also didn't put me on a list to get an X1 Gen 5 model, and at this point I...

It's not unusual for me to be working simultaneously in DaVinci Resolve and editing photos. Resolve uses a GPU more or less continuously. Capture One by itself doesn't do THAT much with a GPU, but if I turn things over to Topaz for denoise or sharpening, it's ~4 seconds to process an image with...

OS/2 4.0 wasn't terrible. I liked it at the time but I actually got my first Microsoft certification on NT 3.51 and I can just tell you that yes, it was kind of terrible and crashy. Early NT was extremely picky about what drivers would work since it supporting it often wasn't considered a...

I want to see where the 4060 lands in the overall ranking, but I'm pretty sure it'll wind up being one or the other. I'm still thinking I might do better with two less expensive cards rather than one big one.

It's exactly the thing LM was describing and actually almost exactly the reasoning as well. New Apple stuff in particular just doesn't consider storage at all. I set up a NextCloud system and run that for people I know just to give them a place to dump their "work" photos. Turns out not many...

Numpads on laptop keyboards are an abomination. If my hands are off-center from the screen, that's going to do nothing but piss me off. I also hate absolutely enormous touchpads, but they just keep getting bigger and bigger on everything for no reason I can excuse. Acer has ALWAYS sold poorly...

I've spent about a week with some Acer Aspire 5s. These are 12th gen i7s with 8GB of soldered in RAM but also a DIMM slot and both 2.5" and nVME. The 15.6" screen is nice and bright and that's the only positive thing I can say about this system. What's wrong? The AC adapter just... falls out...

Long, boring CSB: My big fancy going-away-to-college PC was a dual 486/50 workstation system. It had come from my father's office, but he made me buy it off him. I remember that it had a Zeos motherboard (about like getting a Supermicro board in the current day; exotic but available) and it'd...

An acquaintance of mine has one of the 500 most popular accounts on Onlyfans. She's making low seven figures per year from adult modeling. The library of work she's done in the last three year is actually her personal fortune. I got involved in her operation because she was doing all her...

Possibly. I'm sure I've heard Metallica a bunch of times but the reason I know who they are is that they're the dipshits that killed music sharing. I didn't even actually get to do any of it at the time. They just started the vortex of suck that led to $1/track downloads and $15/month streaming...

Drobo devices are slow but some of the storage setups I've seen from content creator types really make me shake my head.

Gaming is an expensive hobby, but very often the kids the grew up on Playstations and Xboxes move to PCs for their gaming because there have always been options available for PCs that the consoles never had, like full mod support, cheats or community support for titles that got dropped by a...

On a toes-related note: My roommate secured a Media pass for me at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, which happened over the past weekend. She officially knows the right people. I have another pass for the Smokeout (Country Music) festival this weekend. Neither of these things are really up my...

That is because hardware companies do marketing and make people think they need the bestest ever new thing, but we've been through this cycle now for at least a couple generations. At this point, all PC gaming is limited by what consoles can do, and consoles expect to be hooked up to less than...

We shoot very different sorts of subjects. Manually metering for constantly changing lights at an event isn't an option, but denoising and masking regions for better exposure, lifting shadows etc certainly are. The last time I was able to go out and really shoot, before my toes were broken, I...