I’ve installed Fedora 36 with all non-free repositories enabled and was looking forward to adding the NVIDIA GPU drivers with a single/simple command. It does work well, but I had a few headaches getting to this point. Here’s what worked for me. update all packages (naturally) switch into command line mode install the akmod-nvidia package … Read more
Did you know that you can search YouTube channels directly for what you want to see? It’s true! I get this all the time from users who ask me something like, “hey do you have any videos on topic x”. It’s an almost hidden feature on YouTube, but this works for every channel. Rather than … Read more
The Steam allows you to use most console controllers to play games on PC, even those that have not native controller support builtin. Steam does this by allowing us to re-map mouse and keyboard inputs to any of the buttons/sticks/triggers of the controller. It’s an incredibly finnickity process though and I freuqently forget how to … Read more
A while ago I bought a Blue Yeti X as a replacement for my old Yeti. The new X had a super annoying habit: without drivers, I would hear myself through the headphones I use, which are connected directly to the Yeti X’s output. Super annoying, and of course the documentation consists of a comic … Read more
I have an application that relies OpenCL drivers. I wanted to see if my GPU would support it to speed up the calculation, but I had no idea where to begin looking. I found some instructions for Windows 7 that are still useful even under Windows 10 and perhaps beyond. Here’s what worked for me: … Read more
It shocks me every time how abysmally slow the transfer speed is that I get on my PlayStation 4 consoles. 6GB of footage shouldn’t take 20 minutes in this day and age, yet by default it does – even and especially given the fact that the PS4 has USB 3 ports. Using a compatible USB … Read more
I absolutely hate it when Windows decides to shove unnecessary details in my face. Actually I hate it when any service or product does this. One such thing is the appearance of a little picture inside the Windows Search Bar at the bottom left. It started appearing last week after an update, and while it’s … Read more
I decided to head back to the Zero Dawn Facility in Sunfall and investigate some more after the story took me both in and out of the level. I found the entrance behind the stadium, but it took me almost two hours to figure out how to get out again. Thanks to Mick for guiding … Read more