Simple solution for ThinkPad TrackPoint drift

TL;DR: To get rid of the drift, replace your TrackPoint cap with a fresh one that really fits your laptop model. Get a pack of caps on Amazon or ebay (P/N 4XH0L55146 might be a fit). Even if you own a brand-new laptop and have never changed the red cap yourself, try changing it, as the manufacturer might have confused the parts or use the cap which are slightly misaligned.

I'm a heavy IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad-s user over a span of the last 15 years: T61, x120e, W520 2x, T430s, T460p, x1, and lastly – x1 Extreme. The only one which had a famous TrackPoint drift is x1 Extreme. I've been using it since September 2018 – almost 4 years by now, and though I really liked it, the drift made my experience vastly unfortunate. I've actually abandoned using TrackPoint, so painful this was. I've made many attempts to fix it (more on this later).

Thus, it was even more to my surprise that I've found a very simple solution to a TrackPoint drift problem.

Downloading a GitHub pull request

 Adopted from here.

git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:org/repo.git
cd repo
git fetch origin branch_name:branch_name
git checkout branch_name

Normalize audio in videos

https://superuser.com/questions/323119/how-can-i-normalize-audio-using-ffmpeg

Favourite Visual Studio plugins

https://github.com/OpenCppCoverage/OpenCppCoveragePlugin
https://github.com/madskristensen/MarkdownEditor

https://github.com/vurdalakov/startwithoutdebugging/

https://github.com/vurdalakov/languagelocker

https://github.com/K1tty/RockMargin

Output Enhancer (Nikolay Balakin)

https://github.com/jedmao/tabsanity-vs

https://github.com/atlaste/CPPCoverage

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TrungKienPhan.WordHighlight-18439

https://einaregilsson.com/stop-build-on-first-error-in-visual-studio-2010/

Parallel Build Monitor (Krszystof Bukatz)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.TrailingWhitespaceVisualizer

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.FixMixedTabs

https://github.com/priyanshu92/SurroundSelection

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TrungKienPhan.WordHighlight-18439

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Logicalmind.GreyTheme

https://github.com/BobbyAnguelov/GenerateFiltersExtension

Visual Studio make braces and parenthesis bold

Non-obvious. It is "operator":

Not "punctuation", as many say.

OBS Studio with dual graphics

Here is how to set any app to always run on a particular GPU: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/103965-set-preferred-gpu-apps-windows-10-a.html. A well-hidden feature. Set OBS Studio to always run on Intel. By default it runs on NVidia, which makes it not work — lagging for minutes, not showing capture, etc.

Getting along with qwt on Qt

Smooth experience with Qwt on Windows with Visual Studio.

1. Build qwt on Windows: https://www.qtcentre.org/threads/66576-Installing-Qwt-with-MSVC-2015-64bit-compiler-on-Windows-(complete-instructions) — that works on VS-2019 as well.
2. You will need QtDesigner with VS. Install a plugin: copy from qwt-6.1.4\plugins\designer\ to qt\5.13.1\msvc2017_64\plugins\designer\. Run qt\5.13.1\msvc2017_64\bin\designer.exe and see this at Help → About Plugins:
   
3. You also need a plugin at QtCreator. It is a 32-bit app :( So you compile qwt for 32-bit, keep it fully separately from 64-bit one (i.e. unzip your qwt downloadable to a separate folder again, name it qwt-x86-6.1.4). Copy qwt-x86-6.1.4/plugins/designer/qwt_designer_plugin.dll to qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/plugins/designer. Create a Widget application, go to a form and find this in the panel:
   
4. Create a VS Qt project, then export a QtCreator project from it. Use both.