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Then it wants you to connect to that domain. Hope you're good at setting up Samba.

I saw that but since I'm not impacted by any current bug that needs fixing, I'm planning to wait for the next revision. I picked up Topaz DenNoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel software after giving each of them a trial run. The workflow with Capture One actually sucks, but I can't argue with how...

With Windows Home or a PC that has Pro installed but not associated with a Domain, it keeps pestering regularly if you aren't on a Microsoft account. That's what I'm anticipating going forward.

It's an email address and a birthday. I always use January 1 1980 for anything I do now. The main problem I have with this is that I set up PCs for A LOT of people and in most cases I don't think the MS Account adds anything but complexity to their experience; it's easy to make Windows save...

I currently share my home with a couple young women around sed's age who would otherwise be homeless. One of them I call my quasi-SO; she's staying at least until she finishes her degree. The other one is just "wintering" here since she normally lives in her car by choice. Getting proof of...

Goddammitsofuckingmuch. Also, if you don't know, you can only have a maximum of 10 PCs attached to your Microsoft account at a time, and a SEPARATE 10 PCs with access to the Windows Store.

Coca-Cola Zero Sugar tastes worse than Tab or Diet Rite and that is a hill I am prepared to die on.

Supposedly that's the big thing we get out of Adler Lake, with the Efficiency cores and all. I feel like I like AMD's full-fat "Cores are Cores" approach. If I were concerned about efficient cores I'd be entertaining Apple's M-series, but as it stands, I can use a Chromebook with a mediocre...

There are m90 models as well, which I think are called Tiny rather than Nano. The m75 is Ryzen-based and the 90s are Intel. They're available with i9s and up to 64GB RAM, which is a pretty serious PC so long as you don't need a GPU, and they support 2xnVME and a 2.5" drive. Everything with...

I've sighed and decided that I'll probably get a Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 4. The ones that have an RTX3050 can have two DIMMs and two SSDs in them, and I can get a WQHD screen on one, even if I'm not overly fond of a 16" laptop. I've looked through most of the offerings at around $2500 and...

The certs are usually viewed as a foot in the door or a qualifying component to a promotion. It's especially important for general IT, where 3/4 of the candidates for a role will have no academic training related to the position. A student I trained a couple years ago went from being a $14/hour...

I've been a big fan of the Lenovo m-Series Nano desktops. I have probably ~100 of them spread across various clients, and they're pretty easy to get as lease returned units as well. They're solid machines, but I do wish they had two more USB ports than they typically have.

This is dumb, but not unappreciated: Here's someone's installer package for the games that shipped with Windows 7. I'm a little concerned that there's no kind of checksum or signature on them, but technically they're redistributing Microsoft IP.

Apple has sole control over its platform. That's fine as long as you're in the "one size fits some" mindset they offer The good news is that if you have a device from an OEM that doesn't stonewall developers, you can actually get better software support from projects like LineageOS, but chances...

Here's an interesting read about the sausage-making that is trying to get Android updated, by some of the people who have to make it happen.

Security+ is something that is really only a big deal for people wanting to do IT work for governments. If you're actually going in to a security field, it's extremely basic, but also a lot more than most general IT people learn. A+ and Network+ are a good general purpose foundation for anybody.

I've been here 20 years, I'm only in-person at most one day a week and I don't have customer contact with anyone we have to care about. We did finally add a new employee last year, our graphics guy. He has visible tattoos that start on the backs of his hands and a facial piercing.

I'm thankful that Canon has its lens act mostly together, even if I can't afford the ~$2000 - $3000 MSRP on most of the RF lenses. I can't say I have any problems with Canon AF at or below 200mm, even on the collection of mostly adapted EF lenses I'm currently using. I've rented the 28 - 70 and...

I am trying to decide if I'd rather spend about $1000 on a drone with middling photo capabilities or if I'd rather get a consumer-grade long zoom lens like a Sigma or Tamron 150 - 600. The drone seems like it would lead to more interesting options in photography, but I'm also not sure if I'd...

Some people just photograph poorly. I'm like that as well. On the other hand I completely refuse to interact with Linkedin or anything else that smacks of social media so it probably doesn't matter. I also have blue and pink hair, something that my employer actively supports. Some of the models...

As far as I know there's no way to go from GPT to MBR but yeah the quickest thing would be to render some of the settings incompatible with the supported upgrade path.

It's just like phones. The batteries are entirely internal now and we don't get a choice in how they're configured, unless we feel like pulling the bottom plate off.

If you encrypt the phone's storage before you factory reset it, anyone attempting to recover anything won't have the key to decrypt, so at best they'd get a bunch of garbage. The last email address I have for Coug is a yahoo.ca one that I doubt he's still using. I'm sure he's still out there...

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g Mint is a T-mobile MVNO.

The Galaxy A52 is a mid-tier phone with band 71 support. They're $300 second-hand on Swappa and Ebay. Galaxy A5x have specs that exceed many other brands' flagships. They just don't have the super high end cameras or screens that the Galaxy Ses do.

I also have no affordable health care option. Indiana did everything it could to make sure that the ACA was implemented as poorly as possible, and I can't bring myself to pay $400/month for a health plan with a $15,000 deductible and no other benefits. I also work for a small business with no...

I know someone who has been diagnosed with Covid five different times now. She works at the pharmacy in a grocery store in Florida, where the culture of masking and social distancing is barely even a suggestion, even though she wears hers more or less constantly.

I've used bluetooth earbuds for years. I don't like the full wireless ones, but I usually have a pair of corded ones wrapped around my neck. The ones I'm using right now are SoundPeats Q35s, which I bought for AptX support that my previous Jaybird pair did not have. The SD card to Google...

MicroSD is a pretty big one. I like being able to swap the card out of my camera so I can put camera raw files on Google Photos.

For someone as willing to engage in retro-computing, there's a lot to be said for spending a solid amount of time at runlevel 3.

The A-series has screen, CPU and RAM that are all a step down from the S-series, but they do keep the SD slot and headphone jack, and they're expected to keep those features as part of the distinguishing characteristics of the line. The 18:9 or 21:9 form factor does seem to be the new standard...

A general purpose answer to this: ALWAYS tell the Windows installer you don't have connectivity during the setup process. Windows 11 Home does make users create a Microsoft account a few days after they've connected to a network, but if you say you don't have a connection, it will let the...

Does your notebook have something that overrides the power plan? Group policy settings, maybe? As far as the display not working in DOS/Firmware, I wouldn't expect either of those modes to have an operable second monitor, and the choice for which screen should be the "main" screen really comes...

Exactly what laptop are we talking about?

Seagate SMR drives seem to behave in RAIDz1. I use 4MB block sizes since all the data I'm copying is video, and relatively small 4-drive arrays (two 15TB arrays and two 18TB). Everything is fine, if not particularly fast. Writes are averaging about 75MB/sec/array. I've been feeding data into...

The prompt is at install time, before the screen that asks you to specify if you want to allow things like customized ads and location tracking.

If it had Windows 10 on it in the past, the license is transferrable. If it had a 7 or 8 license that was upgraded, the license will be registered as Windows 11 during the upgrade process. I've literally used license numbers I've found on stickers for PCs that were sitting at my local recycler...

I found out today that Windows 11 is not immune to the "Windows Store apps are fucked, so now not even the Start Menu works"-bug. It's been almost seven years now. How is this still a problem?

Happy "Hey, at least Chinese and Indian places are open"-Day!

I'm already a Never Steam person, to the point that I run an Android VM to play a game (Sentinels of the Multiverse) that has a very good PC release. I do use Steam to give away game keys and share a library of stuff I've accumulated over time with friends who use it, but GoG and Humble are...

If it has a Windows 10 license, it'll just activate. As long as there's no huge change in the storage controller, you can sort of whatever driver issues might exist if there are different devices.

If you still play PC games, Epic is doing a promotion where they apply a $10 off voucher to every game in your cart that costs more than $15 right now. I've never bought a game from Epic but that is certainly tempting, but I don't really know what its stance is toward DRM.

The R5 and R6 version 1.5 firmware update is significant. The R6 is now much, much better at shifting focus to a head when it can't find a face and torso when it can't find a head. That's true for people as well as animals. I found that it even worked on someone's gecko. This update also added...

I'm pretty sure Steelec is just the most insanely kitted out WinPE I've ever seen. The damned thing has OFFICE (2007, granted) in it.

Pins bent on the CPU side. I've never bent the pins on the motherboard side of an Intel board. I used a box cutter to bend everything back. A razor blade JUST fits between the rows of pins.

Dropped a 5900X. 45 minutes with a razor blade later, it did actually work again. One thing Intel got right is using the ball grid instead of the pin grid.

Czkawka is a multiplatform tool for finding and removing duplicate files. I tried it and thought it was really handy and it's relatively fast.

One teensy hitch that may surprise you, and I don't know if it's still true or not, but at one time Thinkpads with cloned drives didn't want to boot unless the cloned drive was in the primary drive position inside the PC. So my standard practice was to pull the original drive into a secondary...

There are the Toshiba nee HGST drives. I buy and de-shell a lot of Seagate external drives because I've historically had high demand for bulk storage, but I've honestly not had issues using them in storage arrays, at least not from Windows or my Drobo 8N. I *just* got the 64GB worth of DIMMs...

Why not use drives from a good brand?