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My battle against HDMI to DisplayPort and back... or the day I tried to connect my Wacom Cintiq to my new graphics card

I bought a new graphics card a few weeks ago. (a Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700XT to be exact to achieve better frame rates for VR... which was only as lala as it turned out, but anyway: now I have a much more powerful GPU... doesn’t hurt) Unfortunately, I didn’t take a close look before or thought: adapters are still available and I neglected what kind of connections the graphics card has compared to my "old" graphics card (a Sapphire RX570 Nitro+). ...

The current crisis: Let’s help your cinema

As some people know, I am a film fan and a presidential moviegoer. Unfortunately, among many other professions, cinemas in particular have been hard hit by the pandemic crisis and, as many know, the cinema is already under pressure from streaming and the like. It’s not about the big studios or the film distributors but really about the cinemas themselves. In order to support them, here is a nice action, where you can watch cinema commercials ...

Continuum Gaming: Episode 200 & Special Episode in English: 3d printing a cover for the L950 XL

Today the episode 200 of Continuum Gaming was released on YouTube and in addition the new special episode was released. In it I show the 3d printing process with my Elegoo Mars resin 3d printer and also how to slices it. You can find the special episode here: https://youtu.be/z7joSlEp2G8 The normal episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/z7joSlEp2G8 Have a look and have a look at the normal episode of Continuum Gaming :).

Petition Windows 10x for the Surface Duo: Now at 5000 signatures

As many know, the Surface Duo is expected to be shipped with Android. Of course, die-hard Windows fans and privacy-sensitive people don’t like this at all - once Google is in, data theft is almost impossible to get out. Now a milestone has been reached: 5.000 signatures were collected to get a version of the Surface Duo with Windows 10x instead of Android. We don’t know how much a Surface Duo will cost, but it won’t be under 1,000 ...

Tablet Holder for DJI Mavic Air from the 3d Printer

Recently it was my birthday and I got myself a DJI Mavic Air - that’s a semi-professional camera drone. Such drones are typically controlled from the perspective of the drone with the support of live views and of course a eye-side view of the pilot himself. DJI Mavic Air Fly More Combo A smartphone display is often used for this purpose. But also big smartphones make the handling as well as the recognition of the details very ...

AMD Ryzen – My new PC for content creation (with Hash Animation:Master) and Games (Part 2/3)

A I already told you about 1. part, I've got a new PC. In this part I will show you the configuration of the new PC I am using. Type Item CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (overclocked to 3.9 GHz with Dark Rock 3) RAM Corsair DIMM 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit (slightly underclocked at 2.9 GHz, 3.2 GHz does not run stable at the moment) GPU SAPPHIRE ...