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Do you have an older CPU, no TPM or secure boot and wish to upgrade to Windows 11? I’ve easily bypassed the incompatibility checks. Here’s how I did it…

If a picture says more than a thousand words. Imagine what 24 pictures per second can do…

This simple trick allows RetroArch to load roms & games stored on your NAS, Server or network drive by changing one line in retroarch.cfg

Read this more advanced and in-depth perspective to the Xiaomi Mi 11 with MIUI 12 from a power user who uses it as his daily driver.

The Xiaomi Mi 11 is an awesome phone. However, it comes with bloatware which can’t always be removed by default. So to protect my privacy, save space, optimize battery life and improve the user experience… I found an easy way to remove said apps without resorting to advanced features like root or unlocking the bootloader.

Don’t get fooled by low prices. Altcoins might be way more expensive than you’d think. Here’s how to calculate their REAL value before you buy!

As much as I love and use Microsoft Teams, way too often I notice it uses over 8% CPU in idle state. My computer gets hot, slows down and the battery drains faster than usual. Especially during video-calls the CPU use can spike to 50 or 60%, which is abnormally high. (fyi. on a Hexacore

Autoruns is a tiny portable app by SysInternals for all versions of Windows. It is an essential free tool that lists everything that happens during a fresh boot of Windows. And it allows you to enable/disable items with the tick of a box. Download Autoruns here. Thorough optimization of the boot process is delicate, but

If you use a DLNA or UPnP Media Server to stream videos from your (e.g.) Synology NAS to your LG C9 or CX OLED TV, you may experience subtitles not always loading properly. Even though you have an SRT file in the same directory as the movie file or many subtitles are embedded in your

If your Smart TV doesn’t properly support MKV subtitles, it’s relatively easy to extract these subtitles as .SRT files.