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Fixing Xbox One Elite Controller Sticky Buttons

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Fixing Xbox One Elite Controller Sticky Buttons

When Red Dead Redemption 2 was released, my best friend bought it and she enjoyed it so much I wanted to play with it too. But my Xbox One hadn't been started in months, and it took a while to update the beast. After installing the game, I took my

Surface Book 2 Review

Surface Book 2 Review

Why the Surface Book 2 ? Recently, I felt the urge to draw, and really wanted to play around with an active pen. I wanted to use some good tools like Photoshop on the go, without having to carry a Wacom tablet. There were many different choices available to me: * The

Building v8 on Arch Linux

Building v8 on Arch Linux

My original goal was to script some parts of a Go application using javascript. Knowing chromium components were portable, and that Nodejs was built with v8, I wanted to try it as an experimental platform. This article relates my (little) journey through building the v8 engine on an up-to-date arch

Spotify's Heavy IO Problem

Spotify's Heavy IO Problem

Recently, people started to realize that the Spotify desktop client was writing way more data than it should reasonably do. It could easily go up to 200 gb on my personal laptop after a day running in background, without playing music. Yes, you read well, without playing music. Let's have