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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...

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.

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...

They're all out there flying. They work so well there's no need for discussion....

...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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

The problem with this is that it fails to address how egregious the offenses might be, even though they be first or second ones. It lumps an innocent person who made an honest mistake in with a sociopath who deliberately uses a drone to cause havoc or injury. The way our legal system takes the...

This smells it could be local time issue to me. The exFAT file system used on most SD cards has optional support for UTC, where the actual date/time recorded can be accompanied by a flag in the file metadata indicates what time zone that time was recorded in. I wonder if some sort of firmware...

It seems like there's a market for a drone that could act as a signal relay - launch it up above you and let it hover there to relay signals between your controller and another drone. Not sure about how the regs would apply to flying two drones simultaneously. But they'd probably get you on...

I just had a wild thought about boat landings - has anyone tried tying a string or lightweight rope around the drone that dangles down a foot or two? You could then hover the drone near the boat, grab the string, and kill the props. Seems like it might be a more fool-proof method.? I'm...

This is what I do with my Mini 3 Pro and I find it works pretty well, especially if I only apply a light amount of left-stick-down input. If I jam the stick to the full down position I find that the drone has a tendency to buck. This makes me wonder how difficult it is to hand catch the Mini 4...