Monthly Archives: September 2026

I’m getting a new head unit for my car, and it has small gray snippets of text and icons across the LCD screen’s glass. I don’t have the unit yet, but I’m assuming it’s the same kind of label that I’ve seen on other things — slightly raised and on […]

There is a game called Valorant, here are its system requirements. The thing is, my FPS drops and jumps in the range of 40 to 130, but what bothers me most are the freezes—the game stutters every now and then. What could be causing this? Could it be related to […]

There is a game called Valorant, here are its system requirements. The thing is, my FPS drops and jumps in the range of 40 to 130, but what bothers me most are the freezes—the game stutters every now and then. What could be causing this? Could it be related to […]

I am currently investigating a performance bottleneck on a Windows workstation handling continuous, high-volume network transfers and background data syncing. During extended multi-threaded file transfers, the System process occasionally spikes in CPU utilization due to high deferred procedure calls (DPCs) and hardware interrupts, which temporarily impacts overall system responsiveness. – […]

I wish to replace a drive in an active (working) RAID0 MD array, without taking it offline. The data inside isn’t important (which is why it’s RAID0), but I don’t want the downtime of an offline replacement Per mdadm manpage, it’s possible to convert the array to RAID4 and back: […]

Using XKB on Linux/Wayland, my desired keyboard layout combines 3 features: Sticky modifier keys, e.g. pressing either Shift key latches the Shift modifier until a letter is entered; pressing Shift twice has no effect (it latches then unlatches the modifier). Same for Control, Alt, Super. Caps Lock as an additional […]