fraggler

Amp cycling >>>>> lens cycling. Lens cycling prevents you from learning to use your lenses fully

I think audio gear holds value better than lenses, especially modern ones.

You can probably get the lens for less in HK.

I was thinking of you, admiringly, only this morning. Gotta say I think it's pretty ballsy to visit China. Yes, I have a cousin who's been going there every month for business for years and years, but he's the tough guy sort. But I confess that tyrannies scare me. I am *not* trying to scare you. I hope you both have the best time.

Try this site https://www.discoverhongkong.com/hk-eng/index.html for ideas

DM me for recommendations if there’s anything you’re keen to do (erm, legit activities). Happy to help if I can.

I’ve been to Shenzhen on a business trip a few years ago. Sadly, I’ve got nothing to recommend as I didn’t see much more than the hotel and the plant I worked at. But, boy, what a huge city! For me as a European, that alone was really out of the ordinary.

@Lyander... Wow, Quink, yes, but that one is probably even older!

Mine is the diamond shaped bottle.

I'll have another search for it. Hope it isn't lost!

It was basically a powder when I got it at a yard sale I think. Had to reconstitute with distilled water! But yeah, good ink for vintage pens

Oh, and mine's turquoise. My first act of outright rebellion!

School rule: ink must be blue or black.

Me: "Yes? Turquoise *is* blue!"

@fraggler I use a notebook, nothing like using a pen and paper to map out stuff.

I use miro.com and scapple for that purpose. Both are good. Happy to answer any questions on either.

Also would agree with @ColdsnapBry that pen and paper (or in my case, stylus and Boox Note Air drawing app) are uniquely good for low-friction thinking/mapping out stuff.

*Except for when I woke up at 4am, put them on my head but forgot to turn them on, then TayTay played out of the phone speakers and woke the wife and baby.

The only advice I have to offer is: always bring your best / favorite pair of IEMs; because you never how long you'll be away for.

I hate wireless...except when I use it, which is when I'm active (exercise, chores, commuting) so basically all day :P
Wired is the way to go, except a couple of times I nearly strangled myself having fallen asleep with IEMs.

I also do this sometimes. I listen to my ifi gryphon with Campfire Vega IEM (highly colored sound) because my desktop rig is "too much trouble". I only have myself to blame when my mind is blown by the big rig.

I see this as a repeated theme and is some balance to be had between ultimate performance and ease of use. I've found mine is closer to ease of use for an office/portable setup and it helps a ton in actually using it often and enjoying it

Definitely. Kato + $25 CS43131 dongle from Aliexpress sounds amazingly good.

I hope you can get it back <3

Oh man, that sucks. Good luck, man ...

I know the basics of what I need, but the system is going to cost about 10x what I build for myself, so I want someone else to be able to provide warranty and service. The quadro line is just RTX now, but with A-nomenclature like A5000, A6000.

I work for Dell (but not in PCs). Despite what some folks say, we support our enterprise customers very well. You can configure a Precision tower with 56 fast cores and triple A6000s, and get a same-day onsite service plan. The pro machines do not suck.

TY. We used Dell for our regular production laptops and desktops and love them. However, as far as I can tell, AMD Threadripper is the way to go for rendering complex scenes and Dell doesn't have workstations with AMD CPUs as options. Still digging around, as our renderer, as talented as he is, doesn't really have a great grasp on the under-the-hood stuff for tech.

Right? Piety just gets out of the way and gives you the music.

I will be tent camping, possibly with no internet for a couple days.

I got ya dude

I like ‘em too.

I use them exclusively on my canon dslr

Trying to decide between the Slide and the Slide Lite. I have a Sony A7C and a couple reasonable zooms, so probably fine with the Slide Lite.

Just got the 2022 ATV4K in and set it up. So far, with both 4K Dolby Vision and 4K HDR Disney+ is playing at 60fps (Moana and recent Thor as tests). Doesn't matter if I turn on match framerate or not. I even manually set to 4K 24fps globally and somehow Disney+ is at 60fps. There might be some permutation that works, but not hopeful if it didn't work out of the box.

Same issue with Amazon Firestick 4k Max. Everything on paper that I wanted (at a 5th of price of ATV4K), but no go on Disney+. Probably entirely Disney's fault, but frustrating nonetheless. Since I still need a streamer, and the ATV4K seems to do everything else fine, might just keep it and hope the developers come through. Also need a Kodi replacement for NAS stuff.

Glad to hear that you worked through the ATV issues and are enjoying it now! Interesting that its Dolby Vision on Disney+ that was the problem. I wonder if others have had the same issue and if there are any workarounds.

Here, if there is too much noise, one click and forever forgotten. Less about the why I use it, and more about how much I appreciate its simplicity and completeness.

Now that I think about it, I haven't had to use the function in years it seems like. Not sure if that's because I'm not as active, don't care as much, or there just aren't as many randos as before.

ignore all network engineers

I might raid the Oyaide shop if people are interested.

Denim or fountain pens, if you’re into such things

@Cryptowolf - I forgot about stationary stuff! Since it’s the end of the year the 2023 techo planner should be available

Many many years!

Indeed congrats! Wishing you both many years of happiness!!

Mazal tov old buddy!

If all you want is partitioning, then this https://gparted.org/livecd.php Otherwise, if you want to try to recover Windows (assuming you have not tried a Windows recovery disk, or did and failed) then https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

There is something called testdisk. As I understand it, it finds inconsistencies and fixes them. But all I really know is that it has made some external drives work for me. Maybe CHKDSK would have: but I don't have a windows machine.

Another thought is... If you can boot from a Linux-distro thumbdrive, you can at least take a look around. If visible, perhaps copy some important stuff off the SSD.
The vital thing is to do nothing that *writes* to the damaged disk/partition. Unless or until you know what you are doing, or one of the tools @Kernel Kurtz recommends is fixing stuff for you.

this is pinnacle hifi, no longer using headphones!
I just assume you are running speakers and that's why you aren't bothering with your headphone rig.

@nithhoggr, Isn't it odd that the first thing depression does is to make us not want to do the very things that might make us feel less depressed. Unless you were listening on speakers instead, of course.

For years, I've spent more time working out in my head how piano pieces should be played than I do listening to them. I don't believe in reincarnation, but it makes for interesting speculation. I shouldn't be surprised if used to be this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Foster

So I don't know... Can't decide between 4080 and 3090... I guess 4080 would be faster yet pricier? But yea, 24G VRAM on 3090 looks good to me for CGI, VFX and editing.

From general comments I’ve seen it seems like now is the time to buy 3000 series if you are going for that. Nvidia had halted production on whatever 3xxx card they can to so they don’t have excess when 4xxx comes out.

In terms of price and availability it won’t get much better than now for new cards

I won't buy used for something like this. Originally wanted to "splurge" on a 3070, but prices and availability killed that. Now that I see its performance on games I want to play with the eye candy on, I think 3080 perf is min. Given likely availability, prob looking at a year or more before the equiv 4000 is realistic. Hence debate. 1070 still works, just not amazeballs.

I just want sex again...

Possibly I'd regret selling my old sex, but I'm not likely to find out because I doubt anybody would pay for it.

@Merrick Sold an ECP L2 I got here from a Friend a short while ago.