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Senzelian

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    Senzelian reacted to PcBeExpensive in New to photography - need help   
    Don't worry, I got it figured out. Thanks for all your help!
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    Senzelian got a reaction from SteveBinLaden in Please leave my walled garden alone   
    Tell me how they're doing that.
     
    Yeah no, they don't. They have just as many dumb issues as Windows.
     
    For example, did you know that Macbooks have a bug where they won't let you log out of your Apple account? When that happens the only way to fix it is to reinstall the entire OS. Also, I have seen Macbooks refusing to connect to a Wi-Fi network, even tho the same network has previously worked, or sometimes outright refusing correct hotspot passwords. Then there is the general unresponsiveness of M1 Macbooks at startup (I have to deal with that daily), or just general UI bugs that happen when dragging windows around.
     
    Oh and the most fun bug ever, tho this has nothing to do with any particular hardware, is when Apple decides that your password is now wrong, even tho you've never changed it and you definitely typed it in correctly, because you copied it out of a password manager, which worked previously. This has happened to at least a few dozen of people that I personally worked with, me included.
     
    So yeah, fuck Apple, just like Microsoft, Google and any other big software developer. They all suck ass.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from SteveBinLaden in Used camera for hobby photography.   
    Thanks, everyone!
     
    I got a great deal on a Sony A6000. It includes the 16-50mm 3.5-5.6 kit lens and also the Sony 50mm 1.8 OSS. All of that in its original packaging and for just 450€!
    Bonus: The seller includes a Sony bag and multiple batteries. 
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    Senzelian got a reaction from Lurick in Paying for Cloud Storage is Stupid   
    Great video!

    Best thing is, that there are so many different choices for NAS out there. My first one was a Synology DS212j, which is a cheap, old, little unit that I bought used off of eBay together with two 1TB WD Red hard drives for basically nothing. For basic storage of important data it's a perfect solution and thanks to the excellent software support from Synology it's easy to set up and run for basically ever.
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    Senzelian reacted to NikolakiH in Wireless printing.   
    If you have a combined 2.4GHz/5GHz network from your router, you could try separating them and connecting to the 2.4GHz network on your printer.
     
    If you have a Wifi 6 router, you may have set the network password encryption to be WPA3 only, which many printers still don't support. In which case, you should set it to WPA3+WPA2 or just WPA2 and see if the printer can see the network.
     
    If that doesn't work and you're willing to spend a little money, you could also try a cheap powerline ethernet adapter.
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    Senzelian reacted to OhYou_ in Under 14? No social media for you!   
    Finally a law no one can even argue against, everyones for it. Next lets ban them from voicechats in games
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    Senzelian got a reaction from BrandonTech.05 in The US Department of Justice accuses Apple of having an illegal monopoly over smartphones   
    By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.
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    Senzelian reacted to Erioch in Please leave my walled garden alone   
    billion trillion
     

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    Senzelian reacted to Erioch in Please leave my walled garden alone   
    One of the PMs where I work has a Macbook and it always displays over 6,000 unread Outlook emails on the taskbar (or whatever it's called on a Mac).  It Outlook itself it shows zero unread emails.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from da na in Please leave my walled garden alone   
    Tell me how they're doing that.
     
    Yeah no, they don't. They have just as many dumb issues as Windows.
     
    For example, did you know that Macbooks have a bug where they won't let you log out of your Apple account? When that happens the only way to fix it is to reinstall the entire OS. Also, I have seen Macbooks refusing to connect to a Wi-Fi network, even tho the same network has previously worked, or sometimes outright refusing correct hotspot passwords. Then there is the general unresponsiveness of M1 Macbooks at startup (I have to deal with that daily), or just general UI bugs that happen when dragging windows around.
     
    Oh and the most fun bug ever, tho this has nothing to do with any particular hardware, is when Apple decides that your password is now wrong, even tho you've never changed it and you definitely typed it in correctly, because you copied it out of a password manager, which worked previously. This has happened to at least a few dozen of people that I personally worked with, me included.
     
    So yeah, fuck Apple, just like Microsoft, Google and any other big software developer. They all suck ass.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from Lurick in Internet stops working with multiple monitors   
    Does this only happen when a particular monitor is plugged in or does this happen as soon as any 2nd monitor is plugged in?
    Could you try to plug in only your second monitor and not the first and if the same issue appears?
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    Senzelian reacted to Lunar River in The US Department of Justice accuses Apple of having an illegal monopoly over smartphones   
    people always say "vote with your wallet" but only a very insignificant amount of people every follow through with it when it's actually their turn to vote. consumers are extremely predictable.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from GOTSpectrum in The US Department of Justice accuses Apple of having an illegal monopoly over smartphones   
    By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.
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    Senzelian reacted to Blue4130 in Used camera for hobby photography.   
    I am in a similar boat. I do most of my photography using film cameras, but want to grab a cheap digital for casual snaps. I am looking at the sony A7 simply for the fact that I can adapt all of my current vintage lenses to it. If you are coming in with nothing, that is a good way to save cash. Vintage lenses are cheap and most are fantastic if you can live with manual focusing.
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    Senzelian reacted to jaslion in Used camera for hobby photography.   
    Yup its insane the market for this. Bonus that there are also a bunch of compatibility adaptors for canon to get other lenses to work or very old or very new canon lenses to work on older/newer camera's.
     
    Very hard to beat that with others.
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    Senzelian reacted to jaslion in Used camera for hobby photography.   
    I mean if you liked the a6000 you could just buy it again?
     
    Its not like its suddenly a bad camera at all. A decked out a6000 with a some lenses (the lenses seem a bit expensive) seems to be 500 ish on ebay. A pure body is about 250 too.
     
    The fuji is a pretty nice camera too. Nothing wrong with it either.
     
    The main thing will be how much do you wanna spend?
     
    Like you can still get amazing pictures with a old camera. The neighbour of my parents has been a semi pro photographer for most of her life (hobby and gigs) and has been using a canon eos 5d for 18 years now. Still shooting amazing shots and knows the camera inside and out.
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    Senzelian reacted to OhYou_ in Used camera for hobby photography.   
    the a6000 really is a great budget cam, but the lens selection sucks or costs hella money.
    It has strong advantages that no one ever considers like the ability to charge over usb, yeah, imagine right.
    As well as using wifi to offload photos to your phone so you can immediately edit and share them, or even controlling the camera remotely from the same app.
    It's final trick is the ability to run third party apps for stuff like timelapse or exposure bracketing or other various useful tools.

    Like for a $300 body, you dont get any of that elsewhere, its nuts.
    If I had to go with anything else, I would look at Canon because there is so much used market for lenses and stuff. 9/10 lenses in second hand shops are all canon, its insane.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from Cyberspirit in The US Department of Justice accuses Apple of having an illegal monopoly over smartphones   
    By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.
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    Senzelian got a reaction from Lunar River in The US Department of Justice accuses Apple of having an illegal monopoly over smartphones   
    By definition, they don't have a monopoly, neither in hardware nor software. But can we just agree that they're assholes? There should be an anti-asshole law.
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