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I have one of these and it's very compact, especially with the less traditional design of the hood that you can leave on all the time.

Not a PlusNet customer but FWIW. I was in a similar position last year (ISP I had a domain and email hosting with for 30+ years was closing their Mail service). I’ve never been keen on letting Google or Microsoft get at my personal email data, so I’d rather pay for my own. I ended up with...

I’m an old crank who has some cameras that require stop down metering, which only makes sense when it is adjusting the aperture, not the shutter speed :)

Yes “I stopped down to f/.5.6” ✔️ “I took the exposure down a stop by changing the shutter speed to 1/500” ✔️ “I stepped down to 1/500” ✔️ “I stopped down to 1/500” ❌

For myself, at least, I would never use it to mean anything other than changing the aperture

My collective opinion about using cloud based AI like ChatGPT to edit photos is that just encourages the companies buying up all the memory and storage being manufactured for the next couple of years, leaving nothing for the rest of us

That’s not far off the position Levis took with grey market imports in a landmark case in 2002 , while another 2017 that found Grey market importers can be prosecuted under the same criminal law as counterfeit goods when in breach of a trade mark...

I like Crucial drives a lot ( I have five of different types and generations) but sadly Crucial are exiting the consumer market for both SSDs and RAM in favour of better profitability in strategic enterprise sales. Another case of the juggernaut of AI investment capital squeezing everyone else...

I’ve been having similar problems over the last day or so, too, and more occasionally over the last couple of weeks - access forbidden messages, or what looks like CSS style sheets not loading when the content did load. This was with current version of Apple Safari on current macOS and iOS too...

Yes, they will With Canon FD lenses, which I am most familiar with across comparable versions, single coated lenses broadly tend to have less contrast than multi-coated ones, but a yellow filter will still work fine on either.

10 Gbps USB might throttle the speed that backups can run at with two devices on the same bus. If it’s not a thousands of photos, that may not be a problem,, though.

I have been using it since v3 and I found v5 something of a disappointment - in some respects I felt it went backwards and I almost regretted upgrading. Prompted to try v6 on trial after your post and the new XD3 process is very good indeed, pulling detail out of nowhere. Most importantly...

A little digging - it's all down to the A18 Pro system on a chip at the heart of the machine; it was designed for energy efficiency, to used in phones and tablets and pulled from the parts bin for this laptop. The A18 Pro has one USB 3.2 Gen 2 controller capable of 10 Gb/s. There is one...

It looks like a hardware limitation of the GPU onboard the A18 SOC, like the 1st gen Apple Silicon MacBook Air No thunderbolt either For similar reasons

I don’t believe for a moment that Apple are trying to kill the iPad; tablets is a growing market segment which they dominate (over 50% of sales globally, even more in North America and Asia) The Neo is aimed at bringing people into the macOS ecosystem at à lower price point. It may steal a few...