I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless…

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:text=You get the kernel updates,using with command uname -v.

Nice reference: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005725/wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html

I guess my point is that it isn’t a particularly important part of the design of Wi-Fi - they included it in the very first iteration in 1997 and realised by 1999 they didn’t need it. Therefore Wi-Fi would likely have been born regardless of the invention; Bluetooth would not.

Great to recognise this invention.

I was surprised by the choice of ‘Mother of Wi-Fi’ though - Wi-Fi hasn’t used ‘frequency hopping’ as such since 802.11b was released back in 1999 - so very few people will have ever used frequency-hopping Wi-Fi.

GPS only uses it in some extreme cases I think, but I’m not an expert.

However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.

Yep, especially surface mount lithium batteries - they’re very sensitive to the solder reflow profile being juuuust right

Just to add in case you’re not aware, the EF-RF adapters are literally just spacers that shift the lens mount to where it would have been if there was a mirror in there - optically it’s just 24mm of air, so no quality impact at all.

The only thing to keep in mind is that there is a slight autofocus slow-down with the much older lenses, but not enough to bother me.

I literally just faced this same dilemma! I went online looking to upgrade the kit lens I’ve had on my Canon EOS 70D for nine years and got sucked into the mirrorless hype.

In the end I sortof ended up upgrading both… I got a great deal on a second hand Canon mirrorless body, and because it has in-body image stabilisation I could then spend a lot less money to get a 25 year old ‘L’ series EF lens rather than a newer one with IS in the lens.

I’m extremely pleased with this set-up so far, and even more pleased that I can add to my lens collection in future for much less money than if I needed IS hardware in every lens.