Lighting

If you’re controlling a group of lights from multiple different types of switches, you’ll run into the problem that a switch needs to be pressed twice - the first tap doesn’t have any effect. This happens because state is not maintained properly; the switches don’t “know” whether the lights are currently turned on or off. This article shows how to fix that.

Vendors in the gaming space often make wonderful keyboards, but their software is not always up to par. Take the Razer Huntsman Elite: its software is a whopping 422 MB download that installs eight (!) background processes that consume valuable system resources all the time. Luckily, there is an alternative.