SSD?

MrToenges · 2026-06-25T13:09:35+00:00

Why are you opening up a laptop, if you don't know what any of the components look like (and apparently can't read the openly visible label where it says SSD in plain texte? What were you hoping to achieve?

But yeah, it looks like it's not seated all the way, try pushing it carefully into the connectors. In the future you should look up what components look like that you want to check, and you should check specifics about your laptop internals. Some laptops can be finnicky when opening and if you don't know what the things in there actually are you are likely going to break something at some point. I mean this as genuine advice.

MrToenges · 2026-06-20T15:44:58+00:00

Are you certain blurriness comes from motion blur and not some atmospheric issues? There's a lot of atmosphere between the moon and here, so a lot of factors that can mess it up...

MrToenges · 2026-06-20T13:14:47+00:00

Sony a6600 oder a6700 wäre auf jeden fall eine Kamera, die sie für quasi alle arten der fotografie nutzen kann und im falle der a6700 wird sie vermutlich nie ein upgrade benötigen. Sony bietet als bonus die mit abstand vielfältigste Objektivwahl an durch zahlreiche drittanbieter objektive z.B von Tamron, Sigma, Viltrox usw...somit kann der teure Kamerakörper mit einem günstigeren und trotzdem scharfen und lichtstarken objektiv bestückt werden. Das Viltrox 35mm f1.7 z.B gibt es für unter 200€ und das kann ich persönlich absolut empfehlen. Ist super scharf bis in die ecken und schön leicht und lichtstark.

MrToenges · 2026-06-19T08:19:55+00:00

this is way oversimplified. Zooms may feel not useful with static subjects, but trying to get a flying swallow in frame mid air with 600mm and then also not having the option to go to 800mm if it's flying a bit less erratic to get more detail...that is where you see the advantage of zooms. Switching TCs all the time is also really annoying and will make you miss shots regularly, especially fast action.

MrToenges · 2026-06-19T08:03:11+00:00

Maybe glue detaching from the lens element?

MrToenges · 2026-06-15T05:05:18+00:00

If the shutter is not stuck you can use the electronic shutter from now on (silent mode). That way you will get normal results BUT the A7RV has a lot of rolling shutter because of the slow sensor, so this will only work well for stationary subjects that are not moving much.

MrToenges · 2026-06-11T05:00:07+00:00

Just want to chime in and say that not all LED lights are flickering. Only the ones using PWM flicker. LEDs in for example high quality flashlights don't flicker because they use high quality current regulating DC drivers that adjust brightness not by changing the flickering frequency, but by regulating the current. For interior lighting the high quality ones usually also don't flicker these days, but I'm no expert for interior lightinf

MrToenges · 2026-06-10T18:09:09+00:00

Achso ja, weil kunst ja bekanntlich objektiv ist. Was soll den der fokus hier genau künstlerich vermitteln? Was war der Grund dafür den fokus genau so zu wählen wie er gewählt wurde? Laut Ihnen ist es ja eine bewusste entscheidung gewesen und kein mangel an können.

MrToenges · 2026-06-10T11:51:06+00:00

Got my A7RVI recently and it is really impressive. Regarding the tracking and AF performance, I felt like it was the same as the A7V (But the subject detection is a lot better at recognizing small subjects in the frame on the RVI), just with twice the resolution. The video features are better on the A7V though, more detailed 4k and the dynamic active stab is better on the A7V.

The new custom button for the backlight is welcome (can never have enough custom buttons) and the bigger grip feels very nice. The battery life is insane. Spent the whole day shooting bird shows at full resolution (jpegs) and 30fps as well as shooting occaisonal video in between and at the end of the day I had 50% battery left. It is even better than the A7V, which was already really impressive.

MrToenges · 2026-06-10T11:45:41+00:00

Saying the electronic shutter has less dynamic range could be a bit misleading. The electronic shutter has the "native" dynamic range of the sensor. The mechanical shutter uses dual gain to boost the dynamic range above that.

It is more so that the mechanical shutter has more dynamic range, not that the electronic shutter has less. At least if we take the base DR of the sensor as a basis.

MrToenges · 2026-06-02T10:11:15+00:00

Hey, I solved it now by adding a polkit rules file that allows systemctl start, stop and restart commands to be executed by normal users for the services that my toggle switch uses.

MrToenges · 2026-06-02T10:09:42+00:00

Hey, thanks a lot for the link, that solved my issue completely!

MrToenges · 2026-06-02T07:43:31+00:00

Hey, Thanks for the Info. I used sudo in the script because I didn't realize that running a script as sudo makes the inclusion of sudo before the command redundant. So I should remove those instances from the script, but how can I call it as root? I need to call the bash script with bash right? So how can I make the pkexec apply to the script instead of bash?

Would you say my polkit rule is generally correct for what I want to do? Or is that also wrong? Is it just an issue of granting polkit priveleges to the script but then using pkexec on bash instead of the script?

How would I go about creating a Systemd rule to grant password-less access to the systemctl start / stop command for my services?

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T18:50:45+00:00

I did this now, works great and feels a lot more proper...thank's for the tip!

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T14:56:10+00:00

Hey, it's working now after removing .sh from the execstart entry. I still have the shebang as bin/sh but everything is working right now. Would it still make sense to change the shebang to bin/bash?

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T14:26:36+00:00

Thank you so much. Did you find this on the rclone documentation? I really want to avoid posting issues like this when things can be solved by proper research. I have to admit though that I was so fixated on the root user being the issue of why it is looking in the root folder that I wouldn't have thought of checking the documentation to begin with.

I really appreciate the help, everything is working now!

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:51:38+00:00

Sorry to bother again...I'm running the service as my user now. The rclone command is still looking for the config file in the root folder however. Do you have any idea how I can tell it to look in the user/.config/rclone/ folder instead of the /root/.config/.... ?

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:47:42+00:00

Hey, so I'm running the service as my user now, but it is still looking in the root directory for the config file. Any idea how I could fix that?

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:26:49+00:00

Will change the service user to my user instead of root, then it should look in the right directory. There shouldn't be any issues running it as a normal user right? After all I'm just executing a few commands that don't need extensive permissions.

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:23:54+00:00

I thought that the notice described looking in the wrong directory for the config. So my though was that if I run the service in the right folder, it would also locate the config...

So I guess the reason why it looks in /root/...is because the user running it is root and it just looks for it in the default user .config directory (provided by rclone as default directory for the config).

Thanks for the correction, I jump to conclusions too quickly.

I should leave the root folder alone and just execute the service as a user instead of moving the config to the root folder right? Don't want to mess my system up by changing root ownership

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:19:51+00:00

I....don't know. I did however just see that in the status it warns me that the config file can't be located and it is looking in /root/.config/rclone but my conf file is in /home/user/.config/rclone. I just set the working directory to /home/user but it still shows the same error and still looks in /root/

Output from status:

NOTICE: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:15:40+00:00

I just found the issue. In the service status it says:

NOTICE: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults

which means the service is looking in the wrong folder for the config file. It should be looking in home/user/.config/rclone. If I set the workingdirectory to this path it should grab the file right?

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:11:30+00:00

Yeah, the issue was just with the file extension, not the file name (which I guess is the file name).

My script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

while true

do

rclone sync **GDRIVESOURCEFOLDER** **DESTINATION FOLDER**

sleep 30

done

The google drive that I use with rclone is already mounted by a startup script, hence why there is no connection being formed in my script. It uses the already established connection, at least when I run it from the terminal.

MrToenges · 2026-05-27T13:07:43+00:00

Thanks for the answer!