How to extract a thumbnail from YouTube (in high-res without plugins)

Sometimes I need access to my YouTube thumbnails, either because I’d like to update them or because I no longer have a local copy. Here are a few ways to achieve this. Thumbnails you’ve uploaded yourself If you have already uploaded a thumbnail to a video, you can download it again in YouTube Studio. Head … Read more

How to redeem a Steam Key

The Steam Desktop client has suffered some severe bouts of feature creep over the years. As such, I’m having a hard time doing the simplest things sometimes. Case in point: where and how do I activate a key I’ve been given. This relatively simple task could perhaps be a little more prominent, but alas it’s … Read more

How to unpublish a video on Twitch

Twitch have added a new option for video creators: we can now UN-publish videos that were previously public. It’s a new way of access control for streamers and possibly related to the recent announcement with promises of better control over the footage we store. In the announcement Twitch admitted that they and creators need better … Read more

Why Cyberpunk 2077 crashes on older CPUs – and how to fix it

Many players – me included – have found Cyberpunk 2077 crashing in various places every time we try to run it. Classics include sitting down in the Corpo Office chair or trying to leave the bar in Street Kid. This is caused by how the game was compiled, namely with something called the AVX-512 instruction … Read more

How to setup a RAID on the HP Z800 Workstation

It’s been over 10 years since I’ve played with performance or redundancy RAID setups. The advent of SSDs made most of the computers I’ve owned rather fast enough for what I’m doing. I’m editing more and more videos these days, my projects are getting more complex, and as such I thought something even faster than … Read more