A few months ago, I bought a Dell XPS laptop with a 4K UHD screen. The screen resolution is 3840×2400 resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio. When I was installing Ubuntu on it, everything looked so small. The desktop icons, applications, menus, items in the top …
If you are using Windows 11 laptop, you can automatically switch between various refresh rates to save your battery backup. Here is how you can enable or disable Dynamic Refresh Rate (DRR) in Windows 11. You do not need any third-party software as it is possible …
This tutorial shows how to enable hardware video acceleration (VA-API) for Firefox, so it uses the video card to decode/encode video to save power. Hardware video acceleration is a computer technology to make the graphics card to encode and decode video, thus offloading the CPU to …
Recently I upgraded my motherboard (to MSI Gaming Plus Max b450) with a newer chipset to have better support my previous upgraded Ryzen 3700X CPU. Obviously, when you ‘upgrade’ a motherboard, it’s rather a full new build again just with existing parts and that the only …
Zoom became a household name after the pandemic broke out. Adults have been using it for their work meetings while kids have been taking their online classes on it. Zoom has been actively releasing new features to make it more useful for users. Now, it has …
Missing the old Ubuntu Unity style login screen? It’s easy to get it back in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and higher. LightDM, stands for Light Display Manager, is a free open-source project by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Ubuntu up to version 16.04 LTS uses it …
The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once the architecture of a chip is planned, it comes down to designing the silicon of that chip …
By releasing recent update, the popular Arc Menu Gnome Shell extension finally adds Gnome 40 and Windows 11 layout support. Arc Menu is a free open-source app menu extension for Gnome. It provides various menu layouts to choose from, as well as many options to customize …
As you might know, Microsoft recently the highly anticipated Windows 11. Luckily, Windows 11 will be available as a free upgrade for users of Windows 10. Earlier, this week we shared an article about Windows 11 Compatibility Checker and the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. …
