Subscription is the new bane of the internet. It’s been the bane of the modern technology as many users would wail. We are living in a world where some products and services are inherently subscription-based, where it is simply not possible to acquire the said products or services without subscription, say Netflix. But this isn’t about some shows exclusively on Netflix. No, this is about products that were originally sold as one-time-purchase, now in the process of rough transition to subscription model.
How to Change WordPress Tag Cloud Tag Number
The title might be mouthful, but WordPress’ embedded tag cloud widget has a default limit on how many tags it will display. The widget does not update automatically based on the space, —yes, I was surprised to find out about it too— and the maximum number of tags the widget displays is set as a variable as far as I am aware.
Windows 10, Subscription, and Security Update
Microsoft announced that the company will provide a subscription-based security updates, $30/year for “legacy” PCs. It is truly a diabolical plan considering Windows 11 has the infamous TPM requirements, thereby the older PCs simply became obsolete. On Bootcamp side of the business, we are yet to hear from neither of the companies on whether or not Windows 11 will finally be supported on Mac machines. (reminder: although it is possible, officially Bootcamp does not support Windows 11)
Silent Hill 2, Innocence, and Fog World
This post contains a major spoiler of Silent Hill 2, albeit it is about 20 years late and all the other installments do share the same principle behind the world of Silent Hill or Silent Hill phenomenon in The Short Message. If you are unfamiliar with the world of Silent Hill, I will try my best to cover basis from what I understand the lore of it, however please do be mindful that I don’t claim to be expert on the subject.
How to Test Proxy Servers from Remote Client
Normally a user can test the proxy server with any tools, —mine was Firefox until recently— but there is a time when more bare bone approach is needed —like when my Firefox started acting up. Jokes aside, it’s good to have an appropriate tool to test just the right subject, in which case the proxy server. Without further ado, let’s get straight to the point.
How to Band-aid Fix Intermittent Firefox Proxy Failures for VLAN
Before I get into details, if I have to fathom a guess based on what I’ve read so far, this is likely a bug on Firefox’s part. I’m not up to date with Firefox development and the priority lists they must have; but reading some of the other proxy plugins GitHub gave some ideas as to what could be the potential problems. I’ll add more details as I find more about it.
How to Troubleshoot WordPress Scheduled Post Not Publishing pt. 2
I’m still in the process of gathering more information on the subject, but I did manage to find what could be the another source of the same problem. Please read through the symptoms part of the previous post to see if this is your case. But to put simply, when your website uses a cache plugin and fails to show a scheduled post, even though the post is published on the dashboard, it is likely caused by the said cache plugin not purging (or updating) the caches of the website after the scheduled post came online.
Raspberry Pi, VLAN, and Docker
A bit of rant while exploring different routes to host multiple OpenVPN clients on a single Raspberry Pi device. If you are a subscriber to paid VPN services, you would immediately know most services offer multiple server destinations. And you would also know, by following the previous post, that the said how-to only allows one connection to be made on one Pi board. While Pi is underpowered in terms of performance, it’s certainly enough to support multiple OpenVPN clients. That’s how the train wreck of a DIY project started.
How to Setup External Access of Home Devices
There is a problem with all IoT or smart home devices: external access. This is a problem that all users at some point have to ask themselves how they would like to approach it. What’s the point of having internet-enabled, sensor-filled, micro smart devices in each room, if none of them will respond soon as the user leaves the house?
How to Setup Tmux Pane Synchronization Shortcut
Tmux comes in incredibly handy in multitude of situations, and one of them is when you are handling multiple ssh connections to pi devices or something akin to IoT devices. Assuming all the setup is already done on the local device, and this is part of your regular maintenance routine, logging in to each device every time can be time consuming and rather annoying.
How to Troubleshoot Steam Stuck at “Reserving Space”
This is one of the odd balls I found with Steam client. As the client hasn’t seen major improvements since release, apparently it’s a common knowledge Steam has marginal support of exFAT — unreliable even at the best of times. Back in the good ol’ days when I used HDD as the one and only drive for the computer, I probably wouldn’t have experienced it either.
Silent Hill 2 (2024) Spiel
My first Silent Hill was Silent Hill 4: The Room; though I couldn’t push myself through the end. It might come as a surprise, but by the time I was interested in the franchise, I didn’t have the old consoles to play the OG titles. All old franchises suffer from the similar problem; average modern players simply don’t have the old hardwares, be it may consoles, or a gaming PC running Windows XP, to run the old game. The one I actually played all the way through for the first time was Silent Hill: Origins. Long story short, I simply…
How to Silent Hill 2 (2024): Melee E. Dombrowski
Hopefully using his last name instead of his first name helped with the spoiler tags. If you want to find out who the boss is for yourself now is the chance to avert thine eyes. Silent Hill 2 came out in 2001, and there are simply too many medias influenced by the legend itself, so I was one of those people who knew about the boss beforehand without playing the original.
Superliminial Spiel
I don’t know what makes puzzle-solving as a genre so ripe with indie games. The Portal franchise started as an indie project until Valve scooped them up, more recent Baba Is You is a literal indie game filled with programmer jokes. Perhaps it’s the financial limitations that translate into developments, or the metas and homages the indie developers wanted to play with. But ultimately what makes your game independent from its heritage should not be the money nor amount of respects it’s paying.
Surviving the Abyss, Early Access, and Abandonware
There are several games on my radar I am eagerly waiting to see the final copy of. Since Steam has started Early Access (i.e. preorder now and start playing beta, or pre-beta version), many developers have built their new business models around the idea that there is another source of revenue until the actual release of the game.