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 recently joined a trial for the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (on PC) and have tried out Hollow Knight. Turns out I love it, and since Humble had it on sale, I’ve picked it up to keep. Trouble is of course, that the game save locations and naming conventions are totally different on the two … Read more
So I’ve bought a Yeti Nano, thinking it might be a nice addition as a mic for meetings on my main PC. Having enjoyed the original Blue Yeti, and liking the sound of the Yeti X for my streams and recordings, a second backup mini Yeti sounded like a great idea. Turns out it wasn’t … Read more
So I got my Steam Deck yesterday, it works great, and one of the first things I wanted to try was the Heroic Games Launcher. I have an ever growing EPIC Games library that would be wonderful to play on Steam Deck. After I installed it, logged in, installed a bunch of games, literally every … 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
I’ve picked up Fahrenheit for $1.99 on Steam the other day. It’s been on my list of games to play for over 20 years, and I was eager to dig in. Being a controller player, I was a little disappointed that the setup didn’t seem to work out of the box. I didn’t give up … Read more
After thoroughly enjoying Stray, I thought I’d give Spirit of the North a try. It also features a four-legged little hero, and while it may not be as cute and perfect as Stray, it’s a nice relaxing puzzle adventure. Sadly there’s no option to disable the Controller Rumble feature. I’m playing with a Luna controller, … Read more
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
