[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Request: if you decide to add new blogs, could you also make a post about it on your blog, please?

After some time I discovered that I'd prefer narrower choice of blogs, so I copied your selection and manually created my own list. But I'd still like to leverage your moderation, so if you wrote about it on your blog, I would know to check them out

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I don't think there's one answer to that. To me it depends on the context of the clock and what's your plan for pacing. Also it will be part of your style that you just have to find for yourself, what works for you

(Cyberpunk examples)

  • Tripping guards suspicion on-site: one small clock
    Consequence is not an alarm yet but from now on everything that has to do with guards can have lower position
  • Tripping alarms for the whole building: bigger clock
    Or don't set up such clock at all if everything going completely south doesn't fit your overarching plot plans
  • Mafia responds to characters asking around: small clock
    They have reputation to uphold, they can't have someone nosing around in visible way Consequence:
    • someone who said something gets in trouble, making others harder to work with (lower position)
    • Mafia learns who they are (if that would be serious problem for the whole run, I'd make it a bigger clock)
    • They get set up and have an unplanned meeting with a bunch of enforcers
    • It gets so obvious that they get contacted by this group's opponents and the situation is stacked that characters either comply with demands or will have very hard time completing the run
  • Police/corp responds to characters doing runs against the corp
    • If you plan the corp to be present in the plot, make it a big clock to fill it after a few runs
      • Or make it small to force the characters to manage their footprint from the early stage (lower position when doing things the corp can piece together)
    • If it makes sense that corp would first send police after them, make it two small clocks
    • If you don't care about the corp, make it a short clock, to hopefully resolve it during this session
      If they manage to not fill it, after all, keep the clock for the future. The next time you feel it's going too well for them, you can fill this clock instead of more current one. Suddenly bringing old grudges into the mix

So depending on what you want to do it's either bigger or smaller clock, with consequences either in fiction or mechanical

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Personally I don't but my grandpa was electronics engineer by trade and hobby and I was also talking to some electronics engineers in my previous job when I was toying with the idea myself. In both cases for home projects they were etching the paths by covering the plate with laser printer ink. When you get really good at that you can even get into SMD range of path width. The higher part of the range - you can't outdo machine ECB printing if you want to get the paths really narrow - but workable.

  1. print your paths on regular paper. The more DPI, the better
  2. clean the empty board
  3. use hot iron (like the one for clothes) to transfer laser printer ink from the paper to the board
  4. take the paper off
  5. inspect the paths, apply some marker (or wax, I think? I might misremember) in places where it's not perfect
  6. etch the board

Although, some of my colleagues at work were saying that at the prices you can order an ECB to be printed nowadays (for hobby better to find something local, so you have easier contact and shipping won't cost you a leg) it's not worth the hassle anymore. Pick the business which page looks like from the 90s. You are looking for electrical engineering veterans so they know more about electronics than webpages

You might want to search for your local hackerspace. For sure they have it all figured out for the area they operate in

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

If you want to access your computer from outside your LAN, it would be a good idea to at least secure it or, unfortunately the best, learn to understand what you are doing

Coming back to the topic, though, I'd start with checking these out

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[Shadowrun] The Matrix Defragged (www.drivethrurpg.com)
submitted 1 week ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

Has anyone looked at it? How streamlined it really is? Is this overhaul cohesive?

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When I don't have the time to enable sheltered apps, I use Firefox with uBlock and AutoCookieDelete to watch the links
Last time I did this was a few hours ago

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Characters in the title are not the regular ones making it look like a spam mail, no link, description sounds like corpo LLM. If there really is some podcast somewhere, I think it deserves better

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I was wrong

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there a limit to one-time cards

There should be something about that in the Revolut EULA or something like that. But I've never encountered it. The moment the payment goes through, a new card appears in the app

Can you elaborate But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

It's a business. A closed source. They are of course bound by laws and regulations but there's practically no way to make sure they aren't selling transaction data/statistics under the table. Also, the cards issued by them are either visa or mastercard (IDR), so these companies have that info too. And I'd bet they sell transactions analytics
Then there's also the matter of telemetry. Apart from telemetry gathered by the app for Revolut, I guess there's no way to use it without Gapps

FWIW I did not notice an influx of spam after registering an account. But that doesn't prove anything, of course

We can't inspect the code of the app. So it's probably only as private as other bank apps

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

most banks do not support NFC payments in their apps

Huh? All the other banks I use support it

But you're right regarding Revolut. I just checked and I was wrong, it's not there in the settings. I have no idea how I used it with NFC in the past, then. Most of the time I use BLIK

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

WDYM by source? You just open phone settings, NFC and choose Revolut to be the app to be used with NFC
If you choose to be issued physical card there probably is a way to just copy it physically into NFC but I haven't used that
Revolut is just another bank. It's just a little less behind the times than most

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure what "tap to pay" is and I haven't used privacy.com. But you can attach your Revolut card to NFC in phone. Without going through Google Wallet
It also issues one-time cards that get destroyed after one use
In general it's pretty handy, even if as pre-paid account

But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

[-] INeedMana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

access my documents on my different computers or my Android phone

I had similar setup but I was using obsidian and pcloud. Syncing up&down was done by scripts using rclone/roundsync (android). Script part might be harder to achieve using windows

But I came here to say that I finally decided to test syncthing and it's so much easier! And just works. Now pcloud is rather a backup and sharing than gateway

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submitted 2 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

Alien RPG Starter Set has a discount currently. I think I've heard somewhere that it's doing some things well but I don't remember what & where. And I very rarely can get answers to my questions from description or reviews.
Does anyone have experience with it?

  • How the system works? (d20/d6 pool/special dice/similar to X/etc)
  • Rather crunchy or narrative?
  • Are there some system elements that play into the feel of the setting?
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submitted 2 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

Cthulhu Hack, the simple and accessible Mythos tabletop roleplaying game from Just Crunch Games. This fast-playing standalone investigative game, based on David Black's minimalist fantasy RPG The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple Save die-rolls and three resources (Flashlights, Smokes, and Sanity), Cthulhu Hack deftly supports published Investigations and campaigns for any Mythos RPG. Learn the whole system in 20 minutes, teach it to your players in five minutes more, and in another five their characters will be ready for a slow spiral into self-destruction.

That piqued my interest, so I thought I'd share

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OpenTitan open-source chip (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 2 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I was very excited to see that open hardware seems to be happening, despite my perception

But it seems that OpenTitan is somehow connected to Google. And now I'm conflicted

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submitted 3 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@lemmy.ml

cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/12428174

I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think.

There's an MCT oil rig on Baltic Sea. Anarchists from Kronstadt noticed peculiar data transfer some time ago going there and managed to hijack the place. Then they transmitted message that they are an eco terrorist group (I did not specify which one to my players) and demand MCT to stop polluting. After that, folded the satellite dish to buy some time for the decker and rigger to look around the host.

Now, from a point of, for example, TerraFist. An oil rig nearby is in disarray, none of their contacts in other groups say they're doing it. And MCT HTR is definitely on its way.
Does it make sense for them to come to the rig and make contact/make sure it gets disabled/make trouble for HTR?

I think their appearance has potential to turn this job into a nice chaotic clusterfuck and opportunity to show my players some variety of the world (they would definitely come on a yacht going superspeed with help of a spirit).
But does it make any sense at all for anyone besides me?

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submitted 3 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think.

There's an MCT oil rig on Baltic Sea. Anarchists from Kronstadt noticed peculiar data transfer some time ago going there and managed to hijack the place. Then they transmitted message that they are an eco terrorist group (I did not specify which one to my players) and demand MCT to stop polluting. After that, folded the satellite dish to buy some time for the decker and rigger to look around the host.

Now, from a point of, for example, TerraFist. An oil rig nearby is in disarray, none of their contacts in other groups say they're doing it. And MCT HTR is definitely on its way.
Does it make sense for them to come to the rig and make contact/make sure it gets disabled/make trouble for HTR?

I think their appearance has potential to turn this job into a nice chaotic clusterfuck and opportunity to show my players some variety of the world (they would definitely come on a yacht going superspeed with help of a spirit).
But does it make any sense at all for anyone besides me?

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submitted 3 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/main@sh.itjust.works

I might be wrong but I'm 90% sure the Shadowrun (ttrpg) community was on this instance. Now I can't find it anywhere (cross-instance community search doesn't find it too) and I can see in my profile that my posts sent there disappeared too.
Was the community closed? I couldn't find this info in the modlog

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submitted 10 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/2220151

Blades' "skip to the action"+retrospective+stress mechanics worked really well for my table.

I'm looking for other systems and homebrews that would allow us to "plan" the heists later, during the actual action.

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submitted 10 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@lemmy.ml

Blades' "skip to the action"+retrospective+stress mechanics worked really well for my table.

I'm looking for other systems and homebrews that would allow us to "plan" the heists later, during the actual action.

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cross-post: https://lemmy.world/post/1426387

I stumbled upon this channel long time ago. Since then he claims to have Grown Real Spider Silk Using Yeast or taught rat neurons to play Doom.
The way he presents the content doesn't sound like a complete fantasy but my understanding of the topics is very rudimentary.

What do Lemmy biologists think about this channel?

And what do Lemmy scientists in general think?

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I stumbled upon this channel long time ago. Since then he claims to have Grown Real Spider Silk Using Yeast or taught rat neurons to play Doom.
The way he presents the content doesn't sound like a complete fantasy but my understanding of the topics is very rudimentary.

What do Lemmy biologists think about this channel?

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submitted 10 months ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/rpg@lemmy.ml

cross-post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/973541

My characters are organizing an extraction of local (country) MCT head of security. He is Japanese, raised by the corp from birth, but not completely beguiled as his son is an orc and he had to pull some levers to get him into school etc.
He's aware of extraction and agreed to it.

But the twist is that he decided to get extracted because he's taking the fall for a secret lab getting blown up in the middle of MCT office campus. So in a way he was made responsible for actions of some shadowrunners and now he's hiring (technically it's his mother organizing this but that's a detail) another ones. I think that can evoke some ambivalent emotions.
They are going to meet in secret soon to get some of his blood, pass the details of the plan, etc.
What are your thoughts on how to roleplay his attitude towards the characters and the whole thing?

P.S. He doesn't know that but, of course, it was our jolly bunch of psychos that have blown the lab up.

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