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  • Sony A7CR and A9M3 ISO Reference

    https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR_Shadow.htm

    A7CR 100-12800 (transition at 300+)

    A9M3 250-12800 (transition at 800+)

    Beyond that it will be in the highly boosted range.

  • Ouch

    After just four days of ownership, my brand new Speedmaster 3861 made the loudest clang on the train today. The bezel took a minor ding—perhaps that’s the sign I can finally call this watch well-used.

  • HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14

    If you’re wondering why your touchpad or touchscreen isn’t working after a fresh install, it’s because the way the I/O is connected on this laptop is a bit odd. You’ll need to first install the Intel Serial IO drivers.

    I discovered this after installing a P310 4TB NVMe into it, as I’m planning to convert this into my Photoshop machine. The stylus delay is pretty annoying, I guess I am spoiled by wacom pro pen.

  • Horology

    Fell pretty deep into this rabbit hole. Spent quite a bit into clone movements as well as watch repair tools.

    My wife also sponsor me my first boutique watch, a Omega Speedmaster Professional 3861.

  • Home Network Overhaul

    Just reconfigured my home network to separate my WiFi and isolate IoT devices on a separate subnet. Hit some unexpected roadblocks – documenting them here before I forget:

    1. Alta Labs ROUTE10 Surprise
    Turns out this runs OpenWRT under the hood. All standard uci commands work, but persistence requires writing them into a post boot shell script located at /cfg/post-cfg.sh.

    2. Ubiquiti USG NAT Limitations
    The USG series has some annoying constraints:

    • No true non-NAT “External Zone” support
    • Can’t fully remove stock NAT rules
    • Workaround: Create NAT exclusion rules instead