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21 Lessons learned after running 100 sessions
  • Couldnt agree more.

    It is a roleplaying game after all. Conflict resolution can even be fun if the players are into it.

    For longer campaings with a set group of friends we dont even start the campaing with "all PCs are friends". I just make them meet and tie their interests together so they kinda have to work together. Friendships develop over time.

    But I would never, under any circumstance, allow for bullying or teasing even among characters.

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes
  • I don't really have any issue for what the software is supposed to do. I can access my instance, read and edit, templates and queries work fine.

    But overall the user experience is not so good on mobile. On desktop it is really easy to navigate my notes, specially so because of the great support for keyboard shortcuts. Now for mobile it doesnt feel too good. Navigation works but the interface is too small - making tapping a bit clunky. I also find it uncomfortable to use for to do lists - things like groceries lists that I need on the go. Sometimes toggling works fine if touch but sometimes it switches to view mode.

    I really dont think any of that is an issue with the software itself. Its just the format I guess? I still use silverbullet and Ive never tried anything as good for organizing work stuff. But I still wish something more "native" for android.

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes
  • What issues did you have? I have updated recently and didnt notice any problems so far. Also do you have any suggestion for alternatives? For me personally silverbullet is great for desktop usage, not so much on mobile though.

  • Anon casts a healing spell
  • Thats not what I said.

    Never played 5e but in 3.5e the target of the spell - not the spellcaster - can roll a dice. The target can perform a will save to reduce healing amount by half.

  • Anon casts a healing spell
  • I guess since in many cases you do actually need to roll a dice, like when peeforming a touch or ranged touch spell, people just assume it always happens.

    And even in this case. Cure wounds is a spell like any other and it is subject to a will saving throw. So to be correct the pc that was targeted by the spell would indeed roll in order to save from the unintended heal - but thats really just assuming the spell could be used like this, which in my interpretation it cannot.

    So again, even if the caster rolls no dice in this case, the target could. I think this leads to people thinking there must always be a roll.

    Edit: fix paragraphs

  • Launch dates for upcoming Xbox games
  • Because its fun even if the input method isnt perfect. Specially so for casual gamers. Both ports for age of empires play really well on console and I suppose age of mythology will be just as great.

  • X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
  • Does this harm twitter in any way?

    I mean, if they are still reachable and usable in Brazil, they can still serve ads to those users and so it seems their business doesnt change much?

    But there must have been some advantage for twitter in having an office there, otherwise they wouldnt have opened it in the first place.

  • Why does my treadmill want my email address?
  • From what I can tell, not much. They use dashes "-" instead of pluses "+".

    But neither of these two options provide you with much privacy. Plus addresses, as others have pointed out, can be automatically stripped (just delete everything after the plus sign) and you get the real email behind it.

    This service specifically I dont know the details, but it seems there is a unique prefix per user, but no "real email". So for instance if you use gmail you can have "sunnie@gmail.com" as your real email. You then use "sunnie+lemmy@gmail.com" for your lemmy account. If that email gets leaked out somehow, people can easily tell your real email address is "sunnie@gmail.com"

    This service seems to do something very similar with the difference there is no base email, so there isnt a "sunnie@port87.com", there will only be "sunny-lemmy@port87.com". It is worth pointing out you might still be tracked because all your emails will be prefixed with "sunny". So although spammers wont be able to figure out your real email address they can just try something like "something-reddit@port87.com", and if multiple of your addresses leak it will be easy to link them all up to the same person.

    This also creates A LOT of lock in. Because if the service shuts down you now have dozens of services for which you don't have means to access the emails anymore.

  • Why does my treadmill want my email address?
  • Thanks for clarifying.

    Yes, you do need to organize your stuff downstream if you so desire (I personally prefer not to). I will leave the comment though because they provide similar funcionality and might be helpful to someone.

  • Why does my treadmill want my email address?
  • If anyone is interested in this, check out addy.io and simplelogin, which provide this exact service and are seen as privacy friendly by the community. Remember that any email service like this has the potential to read all your email, so pick a service you trust.

  • An alternate timeline
  • I really liked it. It looks very clean and friendly. I can identify the ui elements with a glance. I know it is not modern and sleek and it doesnt look "gamer" at all, but function wise I think this is great.

  • The super-rich are disappointingly boring.
  • Thanks for the rant, loved reading through it.

    It is an interesting thought to think that a poor person is given desire but those ultra rich seem to have converted all of theirs into "more, more, more". Almost like a dragon hiding in their cave hoarding all their treasures.

  • is forwardemail a scam?

    So I have recently found out about forward email just a few months ago.

    I am currently using tuta as my email provider, and I have been doing so for the last three years. But I am not very happy with the closed ecosystem and locking of basic features behind paywalls.

    So I decided to give forwardemail a go after reading about it on free software foundation's webmail systems (this is a web archive link, more on that later)

    Now the thing is, the service works. But things don't really feel legit. They claim to have thousands of users but there's surprisingly little information about them other than their own website. The branding seems completely generic and pretty much all of their code seems to be coming from one single account with no real information.

    There's a couple reviews about them on trust pilot but the positive ones mostly come from accounts where the only review is for forwardmail.net

    I've read some discussion about them getting recommended on privacy guides, they sounded very professional and mentioned even wanting to get auditioned, but to the best of my knowledge that has not happened yet (please correct me if I am wrong). Worse than that they seemed to stop replying to the thread a couple months ago.

    Finally, I realized today that FSF has removed their recommendation for forwardemail from their website

    In conclusion, I have tested and the service does work, but I can't tell if there is something shady happening. What do you all think?

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