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smeg OP , (edited ) to RPGMemes in D&D expectations vs. reality

Chess clock / egg timer. If they don't decide fast enough then no action for them! You don't even need to actually do this (it would be a bit extreme in most situations), but the threat that it might happen should give them the necessary kick. Too much time deliberating? This monster just remembered it can take a legendary action on your turn!

smeg OP , to RPGMemes in D&D expectations vs. reality

I've got an NPC who has been in the last six towns because nobody ever wants to talk to them

smeg , to Technology in 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

Yeah but seeing actual proof is always important

smeg , to Technology in A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

A bit of that, but hopefully if they piss off too many people they'll just go elsewhere

smeg , to Technology in A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

Isn't the real use case just so they don't have to waste staff time changing labels manually when stock changes or moves?

smeg , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they'll go back to the drawing board and try something else.

smeg , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

Hopefully they'll realise it's a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase

smeg , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

If Google can do that then hopefully sponsor block can too!

smeg , to Android in Android 15 might finally stop treating slow 7.5W chargers as fast

Nice, given how most manufacturers tend to abandon anything older than a couple of years I am pleasantly surprised!

smeg , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

TL;DW: the ads will be in the video stream itself which will mess up timestamps, sponsor block uses timestamps to know when the ads are.

Seems to me that this will also break every other use case of specific times like direct linking to a timestamp of a video, right?

smeg , to Android in Android 15 might finally stop treating slow 7.5W chargers as fast

Had a security update recently?

smeg , to Android in Android 15 can automatically delete your face or fingerprint unlock if they aren't working well

If you're concerned that might be about to happen you could just hold the power button until it shuts down or reboots, Android always asks for the password at boot AFAIK

smeg , to Android in Android 15 can automatically delete your face or fingerprint unlock if they aren't working well

Somehow I don't think it also deletes the password too

smeg , to Programmer Humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

Public schoolboys (i.e. the very posh), yes it's weird

smeg , to Programmer Humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

Yeah but only poshos call it "soccer" here to distinguish it from "rugger"

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