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
In this article I’ll show you how to disable auto updates in GOG Galaxy and show you how to downgrade to an older version of this game. A little background on why I wanted to do this first though: Like many other gamers, I’ve been plagued with a bug that’s inherent to Cyberpunk 2077: crashes … 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
Firefox acknowledges the operating system theme changes by default. This may not always be what you want. There’s a whole host of themes we can use, and this feature is right built in to Firefox. It’s so un-obvious that no ordinary user would ever come across it though, so I thought I’d let you know … 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
