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  • AirPods Pro 2 vs Nothing Ear (2) - compared

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    Okay, so. This is not a review, nor does it say, anywhere, that it is a review. This is just a spec compare, and is the most frequent request for content that we get. When we have them in-hand, there will be a full review, and this spec comparison will be updated with imagery.

    As per the commenting guidelines, comments complaining that something that is not a review, is not a review, will be deleted.

    This avenue of discussion in the forums has concluded. If you have further commentary, feel free to direct them to me in a DM.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • It looks like Samsung is cheating on 'space zoom' moon photos

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    bohuj said:
    Bullshit of Apple fans. It easy to confirm its not cheating, takę an s22 or s23 ultra and using 100x zoom takę a Photo of any lamppost. It works same As moon shot u will See all details inside the lamp like bulb or Led array, wires etc. 
    1) The discoverer is an Android user, almost exclusively.
    2) This test you've proposed has nothing to do with the moon, just the zoom. This is addressed in the headline, lede, and article body.
    3) The tester took a picture where the data was just enough to identify it as the moon, given that the same surface of the moon is always facing the earth. Samsung then added data that didn't exist, to generate the photo. This isn't defensible, it isn't defensible with a picture that an owner shot of the actual moon. It's just faked, like Fidonet128 above said.
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  • SanDisk Professional Pro-Blade review: Fast, but an answer to a question nobody is asking

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    What computer did you use that was able to get close to 20Gbps read/write speeds? I was under the impression that no Mac has USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 ports, and that any Gen 2x2 device would operate at 10 Gbps speeds. Perhaps that’s not the case with USB4 ports on some new Apple Silicon Macs? Please let us know!

    The photo shows a pretty dusty Macbook Pro 16” behind the SSD so I’m guessing that’s an M1 Pro/Max Macbook Pro? Is that what you tested the speeds on? With the latest Ventura I’m guessing? I’ve never bought a Gen 2x2 device since they never had a benefit for Macs before, so I can’t test it out myself on my M1 Ultra Studio.

    This “mag” system seems designed for digital cinema cameras like the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K which supports recording to USB-C drives, but has no other affordances for attaching an external drive to the camera. Rather than having to unmount and remount an SSD drive on an external bracket attached to the camera, the mag reader housing can remain permanently attached to the camera and the mags can easily pop in and out.

    Proprietary systems like this seem to come and go — see the G-Drive Evolution system for example — but it’s an interesting idea, hope it catches on.
    The photo was shot on a M1 Max MacBook Pro, but the testing was done on a new MacBook Pro with Ventura, so this is an incredibly solid point. I'll be explicit about support, because I didn't even think about it.

    Edit - updated the original text. The Mac Studio has 10 gigabit performance, the M2 Max at least has 20.
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  • SiriusXM review: Great, except for a terrible CarPlay execution

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    JP234 said:
    Who needs Apple CarPlay for SiriusXM? Every car with CarPlay also has built-in Sirius access right on their car radio. My 2013 Volvo S60 has Sirius XM, 1 year before CarPlay was available. I had pre-merger XM on my 2005 Accord.

    Our 2022 Volvo XC40 has Apple CarPlay, but we just put the car radio on the SiriusXM channel when we want to use it.
    Even in 2023, not every car has CarPlay from the factory, and not every after-market CarPlay head has SiriusXM satellite compatibility. Most of the cars on the road, don't.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Bug in macOS Ventura is breaking some networks

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    rnb2 said:
    According to a Reddit thread, the SMB issue seems to be connected to custom icons on the network shares. Once I mapped my shares directly to folders instead of the drives (which have hard-coded custom icons via SoftRAID), hunted down any custom icons within the shared folders, and removed any custom icons from the backup jobs that copy from my MacBook Pro to the shares on my Mac mini server, SMB started working reliably for me again. I only encountered the issue after upgrading to 13.2. 
    That may be one aspect of it, but the small businesses we spoke do don't have any custom icons at all, for anything.
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