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Even before AI slops became a known issue for wider internet, I believe the gamers saw it firsthand how a new tool, in the name of asset libraries, can be easily abused. These days, most developers use a game engine such as Unity, and with it, they use purchasable assets that would have been needed…
Who’s at the door? shows what is possible with AI generated contents in Exit 8-likes, and to discuss how the game used the AI contents, it’s bound to touch on some of the spoiler territories. If you want a spoiler-free review, there is a separate piece for it. This one, on the other hand, I…
After I had played the demo version of Who’s at the door?, I wanted to see for myself how much more could the game offer for an indie horror game. The demo, the decision which I personally appreciate not to abuse Early Access on Steam, had shown different take on Exit 8-likes as a horror-centric…
One of the trigger points behind my decision to build a dedicated PC has to do with general cybersecurity. To clarify, Boot Camp Windows running on Intel Mac is not particularly more vulnerable than the other Windows machine; it is simply more dated. And being dated, for the sake of security, means not gaining the…
Bash had been the staple of CLI shell for macOS until macOS Catalina in 2019. For unpublished reason, which is speculated to be Bash’s license, Apple has decided to change the default shell to zsh. Regardless, since the adoption, Terminal would display a short warning and a method to switch over to zsh. The command…
Many CLI-based apps on Unix-like ecosystem tends to have long keyboard shortcuts list; it also means being an experienced user in these worlds come with some tall orders. Personally, I think vim and tmux are the prime examples of being useful if all the keys are etched to your muscle memory. For mere mortals like…
For some odd reasons, Raspberry Pi OS does not include exFAT support out of the box. It was the most bizarre experience I had not expected; FAT32 is definitely not going to cut it in this day and age, and most commonly used platform-agnostic file system would be exFAT. It was quite reminiscent of the…
Synology, as of April 2025, Synology announced newer models will have tighter restrictions on what drives can be used with NAS. It appears only the Synology branded drives are touted as “compatible”, albeit Synology, the company, does not manufacture any physical drives. The new policy will not retroactively affect older NAS, but seeing as Synology-branded…
Though I tried to find a similar app for macOS and Linux, it wasn’t such a big surprise apps to test legitimacy of drive capacity is mostly reserved for Windows. For context, the idea behind the test is that there are customized illegitimate firmwares installed on drives to trick OS, thereby users, into thinking the…
While it is possible to use dd command on Unix-like systems to make a bootable disk or installation disk, the method has flaws. And apparently I wasn’t the only one noticing the issue. With larger files, dd can inexplicably fail without much notice. Current USB drives are fast enough that few transferring gigabytes would take…
As obvious as it sounds, having a bigger PSU is not always recommended. In fact, from my experience, PSU has changed as the “meta” behind the PC builds have changed. Back when I was shopping my last PSU for eGPU, I was interested in how many PCIe auxiliary it can support. Nowadays, both PCIe cards…
Apple has already announced macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last major update for Intel Macs. The announcement roughly translates to Intel Macs will have one more year of software support until 2027, and with the release of macOS 27, x86 Macs will be no more. Not that it will decommission itself; but I’m already…
Some of the Steam games simply do not support Steam Cloud. The reasoning behind it, for modern games anyway, has to do with the large files they tend to create. I had issues with Steam Cloud with Baldur’s Gate 3, and most recently, Dyson Sphere Program. Both games tend to create big files with frequent…
I remember seeing a framed Magic Eye picture hanging in my grandmother’s, and that became my side Summer project — to be able to see what is “hidden” inside. Unfortunately, I was never able to see it for myself; but I was told the answer later. I remember thinking to myself, how is this TV-static…
I am playing a different kind of raffle this year, one that use official South Korean lottery numbers. Usually these small group raffles use raffle tickets (like the ones in the featured image) then to pick out the winner, or play a bingo. This game is just like a lottery, only that they are not…