1. You can storyboard ideas/set pieces with no idea how to get there. Get them written down somewhere with some extra cool details. I can guarantee now you have that list that you will see a cool option stick one of them in now and then.

2. your players don’t have to defeat every encounter, letting your players lose (without killing them!) can be really fun. It gives them someone to hate, let’s you evolve a story and makes your players think more.

3. embrace chaos! My players love throwing charged dust of dryness capsules at things, definitely makes fights more dynamic!

Disclaimer: I can’t run a campaign without an adventure to follow. The above are really helping me go beyond the adventures as written.

I wasn’t going to read the article until I read your comment. Wtf!

I was going to bring up the Herman miller Arron, but that released in 1994!

Looks to be about 50/50 between the dictionaries I looked at. Wikipedia includes friends in it’s definition.

My understanding is that is included in nepotism nowadays (used to be family only, now more general)

My favourite tech interview technique was the code review style. Give them some code with a range of deliberate issues and ask them to code review it live on the call.

Tests their code comprehension and as you can ask them questions live, it’s reasonably AI proof (I think). You can ask them to refactor things on the call, which tends to be something AI is weak at. It also requires no take home work for the applicant.

My company has just said that AI use in the interview is fine, but we will be asking questions as they work through it to check they actually understand things.

Ah, Nepotism.

That’s a lot of useful info, thanks!

What do you want to run in a VM that can’t run in Docker?

a VM with torrent client and a killswitched VPN was the easiest way to get a secure setup. also meant if it ever got virused I could just roll it back. I need to look more into what docker can actually do by the looks of it.

You are the second person to suggest unraid - is it ok to sit on the perpetual license (for a few years at a time), or are the updates really required? It supports GPU passthrough right, so I can have a ‘normal’ linux desktop for gaming while running the other stuff in the background?

TY for the response!

I only know of it from LTT videos I think, not exactly the best endorsement!

That’s a lot of data (relatively)! Are you paying for the unraid license yearly, or just sitting on an old version?

Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/

oooh, TY! Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆

I guess I must as well have a play with some stuff like jellyfin to see if its useful. The ‘server’ in this case would have a 6 year old GPU in it, so should hopefully have enough grunt.

Thanks for the info!

ah sorry, my new ISP gave me a router, but it doesn’t have any VPN functionality on it (Edited OP to make that clear). My old one probably can’t support the speed, and for some reason doesn’t let me change its MAC address, so I can’t use it as the ISP facing device.

I’m paying for a static IP (and to get off cg-nat)

what benefit does a new router give over just putting the VPN software on the RP for example?

That’s some nice documentation - way overkill for what I need though.

Out of interest - Why is the VPS required, and why the mention of a non residential IP address? Could that not all be hosted locally if your ISP has given you a static IP address?

…which is actually annoying. It’s a good feature ☹️

Ok… I will engage…

Why do they look fake?

The cross licensing deal between AMD & Intel collapses if one gets bought out. Here is an old article that’s probably still accurate that describes it. (Has some great quotes that have not aged well…)

If that’s still true, a buyout might end up killing x86/x64 in favour of arm etc.

I also don’t think trump would agree without relocating TSMCs HQ to the US or something. Competition is good anyway, we really don’t want to be in a situation where there is only one fab company with anywhere near too tech.