I’ve made myself a striped “kamikaze RAID” volume a couple of years ago for video editing. It’s worked great until recently, when performance degraded a bit and it was time to re-create it. Turns out I had forgotten how to set it up, and I had no clue how to delete it either. Just in … Read more
Here’s another personal favourite topic my brain likes to forget: how to create and format disk partitions from the Command Line in Linux. No matter how many times I do it, I always forget the details when I don’t have a GUI to hand. For the record, both KDE and GNOME as well as the … Read more
I had an interesting conundrum on Windows the other day, where I wanted to use a 4TB SSD that had previously been in use on another system. It had a full installation of Windows on it, but I couldn’t turn it into a cohesive 4TB volume. Instead, after ridding it of all previous Windows partitions, … Read more
It’s relatively easy to create a Windows-like “Start Menu” shortcut for applications you want to launch in KDE. It’s just that… I keep forgetting how to do that, so here’s a quick how-to on that subject. KDE has a Menu Editor app that lets us do this. Find it, then create a new item in … Read more
By default the KDE Plasma Workspace uses the newer Wayland protocol, however not all applications and use cases are compatible with it. GNOME still uses X11 by default, although it has a Wayland option too. NoMachine is such an example that’s not currently compatible with Wayland, and as such I couldn’t use it properly with … Read more
By default, mdadm performs an automatic integrity check of your RAID once a month (on or after the first Sunday to be precise). If you turn off the system prematurely though, the check will be aborted and started again the next month. If you ever need to start (or stop) a check manually, here are … Read more
I’ve been trying to eliminate frequent Unreal Engine crashes on one of my Windows systems, some of which can be caused by the GPU pushing itself too hard. It’s not common, but it was a possibility. Turns out we can ask the GPU via the NVIDIA Control Panel to never go over a maximum frame … Read more
I was considering picking up Alan Wake on sale, but not having the greatest memories of it, I thought it best to test the classic version before spending any money. I have it on EPIC, but would like to use a PS5 Dualsense controller to play. This means I have to use a utility like … Read more
