Since version 26 of OBS we have that wonderful built-in Virtual Camera option. This lets us use the OBS video output with external apps that do the streaming for us, like Zoom, Skype and Discord to name a few. Video processing takes a small amount of time, and as a result our audio arrives too … 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
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
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
I don’t like the Windows dark theme much. The inverted colours are a terrible idea and a cheap trick, an insult to any “no-creative creative” person like myself. Here’s a neat trick I’ve picked up from various sources in the Metaverse: how to set your generic top bars in Windows 10 to dark. This blends … Read more
It came as a bit of a shock to me that Windows actually has a set of options to modify file permissions – much like we have on Linux with the CHOWN command. It’s not built into the file system on Windows, but this concept can be used to avoid the dreaded option of having … Read more
One of the Linux features I love the most is how you can easily map your content locations to directories. Be that with physical drives or via symbolic links. I had no idea these concepts even existed in Windows (much like File Permissions – who would have thought). Thanks to one of my Ko-fi supporters, … Read more
