Have you disabled every possible notification setting and the Discord Desktop App still beeps every 3 seconds? Yeah, it does that. There’s a setting for that, but they keep it secret just to annoy us all, buried in the other 90 trillion options they thought would be a hoot to feature creep into the Settings. … Read more
I’ve successfully installed Stable Diffusion on my local Windows rig! It’s been a little painful, and the process is likely to change over time, but here’s what worked for me. I’ll also share the start/stop commands below (because I’m likely going to forget by tomorrow). Installation Steps install Git install Conda (it’s a package manager … 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
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
A bunch of us wanted to make these fabled Discord Announcement channels work. It’s a feature available on Community Servers that lets you follow a channel from another server, so that that server’s announcements appear in your own server (and vice versa). In essence a way of subscribing to another server’s notifications. You may have … Read more
Facebook have one of the worst UIs ever. The interface changes every week, and I can never remember how to setup a live event there because it’s to unintuitive. Here’s how a quick step-by-step process to make my life: head over to https://facebook.com/creatorstudio click Go Live at the top (next to the search bar) pick … Read more
I like GIFs in principle, but I don’t need to see moving video on static screens all the time. At least for me, less distractions are more. Thankfully there’s an option on the Discord desktop client to disable this option for embedded GIFs, as well as animated emotes that can be just as annoying. The … Read more
I’ve had an interesting puzzle with my various Z workstations and their analogue audio outputs over the years: while the 3.5mm jacks at the back seem to be working fine, I can only get the front input to work, but the front output. It’s handy to have sometimes when you want to plug in a … Read more
