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Windows 10, since the 1904 version, has attempted to railroad users into creating Microsoft accounts. If your PC is connected to the internet, you're forced to make an account. Users used to be able to skip that step, but now the only way to get past it is to not have a PC connected to the...

The market for $250,000 1200mm f5.6 lenses is just a bit self-selecting. Let the niche stuff go last. But the writing is on the wall for camera bodies. There will still be DSLRs in the supply chain for years, obviously, but apparently some of the more common EF mount lenses have dropped off...

Windows 10, in its latest update, prompts users to sign up for Microsoft 365 for systems that aren't on a Domain. If people do that, or assume they have to, that's a de facto $100 annual subscription cost.

I've worked in places with unisex bathrooms a few times. I think the theory is more "Do you want to use a bathroom that has urinals or do you want to have a bathroom that is all stalls." And I've seen women use a men's room many, many times. I can only think of two times that I've seen an...

Remote Workers still aren't moving to the midwest. My favorite bit of the article: 700,000 people moved away from the Bay Area but only 19,000 of them left for the American midwest. Ouch.

That's much easier to do in a studio setting than outdoors.

The standard behavior is to ask someone their pronouns. Most people don't encounter THAT many non-binary (NB) or Trans or Agender or Two-spirited folks, and USUALLY it's a pretty minor adjustment. There are some people who go out of their way to misgender people, which is generally going to be...

It's very common for me to spend all day with someone, with multiple changes in clothes and of location. Summertime has been very rough on my SD cards. Being near a major city, a national park, several beaches and the one of the rust belt centers for urban exploration, I've been a lot more...

A podcast I genuinely enjoy, Behind the Bastards, recently did a two part episode on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates the philanthropist might be a worse person than Bill Gates the tech billionaire. The host, Robert Evans (the journalist, not the movie producer) used to cover...

I have a couple Macs sitting around, but nothing I'd choose to use in a photography workflow. I definitely notice that a lot of the tools that get recommended for this work are Mac-only though, and a lot of others are subscription based, which is a nope for other reasons. I can see the appeal...

That person did exist and apparently a big deal in that community. Gender-related matters are can be weird and difficult, but in practice the important thing is to treat people in the matter they wish; a great deal of what we think of as "gender" is really wrapped up in social or cultural...

There was a definitely barrier to compatibility with Ryzen and Windows 7, in that not many people would have the technical knowledge to integrate the chipset and USB drivers into the install media for it to be functional from the installer. I suspect Microsoft won't be happy until everyone is...

This was originally going to be a question specifically for LM but I'll throw it out there just in case as a topic of broader interest. Lunar just mentioned his his workflow in another thread and I'm interested in knowing what other people do. Culling photos is a real issue for me lately. I...

Mine is the one true gospel. Verily, the world shall be made better when WD burns and is cleansed in righteous fire from this Earth. I've been kind of wondering who those things are for, but ironically I know a few people who have them. They're all Mac/iPhone people who bought them to back up...

You're a big Adobe-whatever user, right? If you're on one of their subscription plans, chances are pretty good they'll force you to upgrade before too terribly long. IIRC Adobe CS dropped Windows 8 all the way back in 2018. The upgrade might be forced upon you earlier than you might like...

Ars seems to think that the TPM and CPU requirements aren't as scary as they sound, but apparently people with older Core i9 systems are being told they're incompatible from the PC Health Check application.

Apparently the next wave of pro bodies will support quad rather than dual pixel autofocus, and it's fairly reasonable to think we might get real autofocus improvements in firmware over time as well. For the majority of my shooting, the eye autofocus is doing exactly what I want. Unless I screw...

I'm at about 1 for 3 on systems I support. I have an awful, awful lot of 5/6/7th-gen Intel CPUs floating around and I've historically used CSM boot simply because that's what my disk images have always been. At least that's a relatively straightforward fix. I'm going to have to talk to...

I think we all know how popular random UI changes are for Windows users. I have a few customers that still use Office 2003 because they hate the ribbon THAT much.

Apparently Windows 11 has leaked. I haven't heard about anything but cosmetic changes yet, but we'll all be complaining about it soon enough. Might as well make a thread. The biggest change I'm aware of is a move of the Start button to the center of the dock, which, one, who cares? And two...

Two sets of drive heads sounds a lot like double the chance for a physical failure to me. I'll be interested to get the Backblaze report on these in a year or so.

I believe Nikon has announced that they're ending sales of SLR cameras as well. Canon has said 2021 will be the last year it offers new SLR cameras and it has also ended production of a number of EF lenses that have an RF equivalent. But hey, there's always Pentax.

All this month, I'm meeting and working with a couple to help with their production needs. I'm learning a lot about lighting for video and about camera movement and I can honestly say I felt lust for a $1200 light this morning.

I know two people who have purchased $1500 HP gaming rigs entirely to get RTX3070s. Unfortunately, the graphics card / new console / AMD CPU thing is about to get worse since apparently Taiwan is running out of water for drinking, let alone industrial applications. That's ugly. I have family...

The easiest way to handle the internal-external name for a single host is to use a CNAME, so you can have your normal A record for handruin.org and an alias for minio.handruin.org that points to minio.handruin.noip.com or whatever. There are some DNS providers that have scripting APIs for...

Why can't you create a proper internal domain? I set up what I'm calling my backup box over the weekend, but I didn't have another Infiniband HBA, so I'm filling the storage over GbE and it's going to take forever. I also don't have a chassis for it yet, so there's just stacks of drives and a...

SMR drives are perfectly fine for ungodly amounts of data that doesn't change very much. They take forever to read and write to, but that can be ameliorated in most respects with a SSD cache drive. The Seagate SMR drives do behave well in disk arrays, so I have dozens of them. Once they hit...

I bought three of them. They do indeed come up as whitebox drives on Seagate's warranty portal. Which in my case means that I'll wind up using all three of them in the storage system I need at work and I'll buy a different one for myself. I was surprised how fast these drives are. My...

zfs isn't that bad for drive upgrades. It's slow, sure, but it works well as long as your hardware is in good working order. I should probably put together a modest proof of concept system before I get carried away and do anything else.

That's an interesting project. Would part of your plan include replicating your data offsite? Or are you just looking at it for bitrot / data loss prevention?

That i5 does have crappy Intel graphics; I have a little 10" HDMI screen I normally use for RPi that would take care of my needs in that department. I tend to look at ECC RAM as more of a headache for a home system. RAM compatibility can be a huge hassle until the RAM is so obsolete that no one...

I've never had any luck with full time permanent corporate jobs. That's one of the reasons I've stayed in the role that I have.

I think I might be tempted to use a 35W i5, like a 8600T, along with a Gigabyte C246-WU4. That gives me 10 SATA ports and a pair of nVMe slots if I want them. Throw in a couple 32GB DDR4 modules, an Infinband or 10GbE HBA and a SAS controller. I think we're around the same price. Yours has the...

I've been able to shift everything I do to 100% remote over the last five years. In theory the people I work with shouldn't have a problem with a move, but my skill set still marks me as a generalist, which doesn't look that appealing for corporate work, especially as someone who doesn't have...

I've actually been somewhat annoyed that the trend in desktop boards has led to fewer SATA ports. We can always spec out something with an LSI controller, but we used to be able to repurpose just about anything with a mid-range desktop board for a credible storage server. A lot of new mid-tower...

If I can get them at a competitive price, I still want HGST drives. One of the reasons I was willing to buy Ironwolf drives is that Seagate includes data recovery as part of the warranty service. The Exos drives don't have that, but on the other hand they're the drives with double the rated...

One of the things I keep looking at as I travel is to find a different place to live. It's 11F in Northwest Indiana right now and there are about two feet of snow on the ground. I really do wish I could move somewhere snow isn't. I really had high hopes for both Atlanta and Austin, but both...

I bought two of them for work and one for home today. I have a couple 12TB Ironwolf drives but this is the first time I've seen the enterprise drives so cheap. Ironically, I usually buy and de-shell external drives to stick in arrays and this time I'm buying the huge single drive to stick in an...

You say that but I wind up in a lot of $40/day rental cars from my quick trips out of town. Hop in a Nissan Versa or Dodge Neon. Those things sound scary if you're not used to road noise.

Not sure if anyone cares but Amazon has 16TB, 7200rpm Seagate Exos Enterprise drives for $325 right now. Those are $500 drives normally.

IIRC Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode + VMConnect is the "correct" way to share a USB device with a Hyper-V host and PCIe passthrough involves some Powershell BS to disable the device on the host so it's available for a guest to manage.

Create or enable an Administrator account. Make sure it has an assigned password that you know. Open Task Scheduler Create a new Basic Task and go through all the options. Presumably Fortnite has a command line switch or an updater executable. When you get done, open the properties sheet on the...

Just added an Akaso Brave 7 to my kit. It's basically a cheaper version of a GoPro, but this one has a 20MP sensor and can do 4k30 for $119. I hadn't really looked at Action Cams but it turns out that they're very handy for getting B-roll and for use in settings where I probably wouldn't trust...

I'll be at ATL at noon EST but I'm anticipating a hassle. sed, look in to Western Governor's University. It's an online-only school that is formed from a partnership of community colleges in 34 states. You can take as many courses as you want in a single semester and your credits freely...

My best friend keeps moving to huge cities, which has necessitated an adjustment to my life. When her income was higher, she'd just fly me out to places she was visiting, which cultivated some good travel habits and also proved to me that I can get away with quick trips to hub cities and tourist...

I understand that air travel isn't a great idea right now, but I've had my recent Covid infection, have a permanent four day work week and I'm two train rides and a 4 block walk from my place to O'Hare. Might as well put those Antibodies to work! I paid $34 for a round trip flight to Atlanta; a...

My understanding is that the Samsung 860 Pros were the last 2-bit MLC Pro-line drives in an easily obtained mainstream drive. Those are drives that can still be purchased new and are reasonably affordable, so they're my go-to for the moment. I know we're all excited about NVMe stuff but I've...

Handy: I have the $100 Canon adapter as well as a Viltrox cheapie that just kinda-sorta works. I've had zero issues with the Sigma 50mm 1.4, 18 -35 1.8, 24-70 2.8 or 70-200 2.8 on the Canon adapter. The Viltrox sometimes doesn't let me autofocus through the display but it's fine via the EVF, but...

The R6 has the same image sensor as the R5 and the 1DX2, with the R5's being tuned for higher resolution and the R6's being tuned for increased accuracy, especially for low light. Both have IBIS and both have Face and Eye Detection for both human and animal subjects. This works so absurdly well...

I really thought the R5 was overkill. Yes, you don't HAVE to take 45MP stills and there's basically no chance you're regularly making or editing 8k-anything. Looking at the feature set between the R5 and R6, the only thing I'd really wish for is 4k120 (1080p120 is coming in a firmware update...