Spoilers ahead of the game. I did a spiel on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently, and I wanted to elaborate on the subject. If you haven’t read it already, that one does not have any major narrative spoilers and primarily focused on the gameplay aspect. And for this particular piece, much of it relies on knowing the ending of the Clair Obscur, or at least up until the half-way point where most of the twists are revealed.
Email Address Is Not Immortal
This is sort of a PSA for all the future developers out there. Developers, do remind yourselves: emails are not permanent. When asking for emails to create a login credential, I suggest you come up with an auxiliary system that allows email address to be changed or updated in the future. And when it is changed, do empty out the place so that another person may create an account with that email address in the future.
App to Manage macOS Login Items and System Extensions
I have been migrating from one Mac to another whenever I upgrade the machine. Often it is delivered with the convenience that I get almost identical experience as before, but only on the newer hardware. That said, the part of the ‘migration’ includes, though I didn’t verify it, copying over login items and system extensions that are likely outdated and fell out of use.
How to Remedy HomeKit Scene Returning Unresponsive Error
After adding some number of accessories to the HomeKit, my HomePod usually returns ‘some accessories were unresponsive’ error, even though the scene is correctly set. Same goes with Macs and iPhones. I can see there is some latency, but it’s nearly impossible to troubleshoot as HomeKit generally does not have troubleshooting guidelines aside from generic ones.
How to Fill-in from Password Manager on iOS Prompts
Normally, iOS and any apps on it that have a password prompt should label it as such. The system recognizes the textbox is reserved for password then offers to fill-in automatically from the password manager of choice. But not all apps have properly labeled its password prompts, let alone iOS’. Anyone who has more than one Apple account would know the pain of it all.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Spiel
I think I can comfortably say most readers have already seen the beautifully rendered trailers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 one way or the other. The premise that anyone older than the number on the giant monolith would die is simple, yet convincing, enough to get a world of live-action JRPG rolling. The number is 33, and once again, that means in the city of Lumière, an expedition of 32 years old has launched to stop the Paintress.
How to View Extra Information from macOS Control Center
With the introduction of iOS-like Control Center on macOS, many Menu Bar icons can now be hidden unless they are absolutely necessary. I have most of the icons hidden unless they are active. But there are times when having a similar level of access the older icons had are simply needed — such as what WiFi icon used to show when Option-click on it.
Day One Patch Madness on Stellaris
Stellaris is a 4X game started in 2016, and its DLCs are still being released as of 2025. I would argue the game itself is alive and has been successful thus far. But as the title suggests it, the game has gone through several major overhauls during its lifetime and we are going through its third overhaul, version 4.0. Paradox is pushing daily patches to sort things out. As I am writing this, latest version is 4.0.10 as of May 16, and the 4.0 patch was released on 5th with the new expansion.
Cloud Gaming and Remote Gaming
Before I start going through the op-ed, I do need to state there could be some confusions no thanks to mixed use of marketing terminologies. There are two competing, albeit not in the same league to begin with, standards of “remote gaming”, one is from the cloud and the other is from your own device, such as a gaming PC or a stationary console. GeForce NOW is in former category and supports different platforms of clients, meaning the actual computation is done on the cloud; whereas the remote gaming is based on your hardwares, and service providers are simply connecting…
How to Remedy Hotfix #30 Graphical Glitches on Baldur’s Gate 3
In the recently released Hotfix #30, there is a known issue on Baldur’s Gate 3 where the game starts to have graphical glitches once fast-traveled to a different location. On DirectX 11 mode, the screen simply goes dark except for the UI; on Vulcan, the screen’s color is distorted to pink or purplish hue. It does happen randomly. There were times it didn’t affect me after fast-travel.
How to Unhide Drives for Automatic Mounting on Windows 11
After the upgrade from Windows 10, one of the immediate problems I had was hidden NVMe drives. I have some SSDs hooked up via PCIe cards that are formatted in NTFS. What I realized after the upgrade is that all of the drives are still functional; everything is in tact, just that they are marked hidden.
How to Upgrade Windows 10 Boot Camp to 11 on Intel Mac
In coming months, Windows 10 will be sunset and Microsoft is aggressively pushing the users to upgrade to either Windows 11 or Windows 11 compatible hardwares. If you were on Windows 10, for the same reasons as I did, it is largely due to several factors that happen to line up like the stars: Mac transitioned to Apple Silicon, Qualcomm exclusivity deal for Windows on ARM, to name the few.
App to Add 2FA on WordPress
Surprisingly, WordPress supports neither 2FA (two-factor authentication) nor passkeys. Considering the prevalence of both and how readily available they have become, it’s still hard for me to believe WordPress does not have native solutions. Websites, of any kind, due its nature, are bound to be exposed. No wonder why WordPress is being preyed on.
How to Check for Holidays on Calendar using Shortcuts
One of the big reasons why I keep things on Mac and iOS as platforms, compared to, say, Windows, is because how customizable even the basic apps are. The power of Shortcuts lies in its easy access. Last year or so, I did recommend this particular shortcut as my go-to. In my defense, I previously had it setup with third-party apps, not the Apple’s Calendar apps, making it less universal.
How to Manually Update TP-Link Deco Firmware
It’s less a how-to, but a PSA for Deco mesh routers users — the online automatic updates for firmwares on smartphone apps or web management are not working. In my case, automatic update said the version 1.2.13 is the latest, but the support page from TP-Link website clearly states v.1.2.14 is the latest with the patch I am looking for.