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    Mini 3 Fly More Combo on Sale

    For anyone who's looking to get into the hobby, here in Vancouver BC it looks like the retail outlets have the DJI Mini 3 Fly More Combo on sale. I saw it at London Drugs and checked on the Best Buy web site and it looks like they have it on sale as well. It may be a Canada-wide thing, or even...
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    Use of FAA logo.

    Half (actually probably more than half) the stuff on Amazon isn't sold by Amazon at all, any more than stuff at a flea market is sold by the person who owns the property that the flea market is on. When you see those weird brand names like "OBSED", "NTCOCO", "MAKIMOO", etc. (real names I just...
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    Seagull problems!

    Seagulls! (Stop It Now)
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    Get stable long exposures

    I'd consider it a small miracle to get a good, sharp exposure of even 2-3 seconds from a camera platform wafting on the breezes in the sky...
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    Dji drones reliability

    Is there any chance you've been flying in an environment where dust or sand could have been blown into the gimbal? That kind of foreign object damage could cause the gimbal motors to seize up.
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    PhillyDroneLife prohibited from drone operation

    Imagine someone firing off their rifle in an unsafe manner, creating danger for neighbors or the general public. He's ordered by law enforcement to cease doing this, but keeps on doing it anyway. After a few escalatory rounds of this, he's hauled in front a judge in to charge him with a...
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    After TikTok ban passage, the prospect of a DJI ban is looking more likely

    I'm just going to point out that the United States isn't the only country that have banned Tik Tok. There's a wide and growing consensus around the globe that it's a security risk that needs to be addressed. What that means for DJI drones I have no idea.
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    Shuttering on playback

    UHD H.265 footage takes quite a bit of processing power to decode. If you don't have a recent CPU or graphics card that can do the decoding in hardware then stuttering is not that uncommon. Also note that even cards with H.265 decoding hardware often can't decode 10-bit footage, so you'll...
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    Why is there not a Mini 3 pro section? Seems like it's ignored.

    They're all out there flying. They work so well there's no need for discussion....
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    Is it better to almost exhaust your battery or leave 20 to 30% on it.

    ...or, indeed, a non-PD charger. PD ("Power Delivery") is a newer USB standard that allows high speed charging, but it's backwards compatible with older, non-PD chargers. So an older, non-PD charger that charges more slowly will work just fine even with equipment like the Mini 3 and 4 battery...
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    Is it better to almost exhaust your battery or leave 20 to 30% on it.

    Charging when cool is a good idea. Another good idea is to use a slower charger. The 3-battery charger that I bought for my Mini 3 Pro batteries can take up to 30W from a suitable USB power brick, but if I'm not in a hurry then I use a 10W one because it's easier on the batteries. One of the...
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    Instant No Drones Sign.

    Well, there's laws and there's regulations, and there are people or authorities that are delegated with the authority to impose regulations. Maybe that applies here, maybe not. I'm a Canadian, so what do I know? And while a police officer can't change the speed limit, I imagine the city...
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    Instant No Drones Sign.

    Call me naive, but I doubt the local authorities are scouring their jurisdiction looking for ways to restrict people's activities. It seems far more likely to me that they've received some complaints which led them to take action.
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    Is it better to almost exhaust your battery or leave 20 to 30% on it.

    It's best to keep batteries in the middle of their charge range, say 30% to 70%. It's a little less "good" to go outside that, say 20% to 80%. It's harder on them to go beyond that, say 10% to 90%. And it's hardest on them to cycle them from 0% to 100%. That having been said, going close to...
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    Arkansas the Latest State to Implement DJI Drone Ban

    Lest anyone think that drones are the only thing from China falling under suspicion: While I'm at it: Of course they're a "radio broadcast", if they weren't then the drone would not be able to receive the radio signal from the controller. And naturally DJI has the encryption keys, so if...