Jay Versluis 
In order to migrate some data off my old CentOS 6 box, I needed to install some additional packages. A final update to the last ever packages might not be a bad idea either. Sadly though I’ve missed the deadline by a few weeks, and running yum update or yum install now only brings up … Read more
I’ve just started using the fantastic Photo Mode option in Cyberpunk 2077. It’s ideal for taking screen shots without any UI elements. Takes a little bit of getting used to, but seriously it rocks if you’ like to take pictures of the beautiful world they’ve built. To access Photo Mode, do the following: Gamepad: press … Read more
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
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
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
Sometimes we may prefer a different colour for our user name as it appears in the Twitch chat. Perhaps there’s too many blue people here already, or that retina burning fire-red is just a little too saturated and kills the mood. Thankfully we have a few options, and I thought I’d let you know about … Read more
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
I have a system on which I’d like to keep Stream Deck around if and when I need it. That’s not every day, so I’d rather it doesn’t remind me of an update every day or lurk around in the background when the device isn’t even connected. Hence I’d like to disable it from automatically … Read more