I’m with you. Zero session is value added even with an experienced group. We’ve been playing with the we group for a while and whenever we do a new campaign or new DM we end up using a zero session to reset expectations & make sure everyone’s still on the same page with the upcoming campaign.

Better yet, redeploy the ones on Trump and put new ones on the threatened!

You know, shuffle the cards around, same impact.

Bahaha nice catch.

Good stuff, that’s not terrible at all, just the tinyest bit of preplanning - the phone hotspot is an excellent idea.

How have you found offline mode to work while traveling? I remember hearing early on it was a bear to use without wifi without extra steps.

I’m in the same boat as you. For me, the ability to be with other people not in front of my computer, would be my driver.

That is absolutely hilarious. They should’ve offered him @twitter in exchange, it would only be fair…

10:10 wholesome response.

I loved all of Asimov’s books/stories, I’ve recommended to a number of friends but a few have had the same issues with the foundation books as above.

I thought the scale/short-story history jumping style of the foundation books was a really unique approach to storytelling. I thoroughly enjoyed the series.

Just rewatched this with my wife the other day, such a good movie!

This is the most interesting one I’ve read so far.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this year is the year I make the same jump. Really good, practical use of the tool.

Finding what makes you happy and focusing on making sure you’re unapologetically taking care of yourself is a good place to start.

This goes for work, relationships, hobbies, friends, whatever.

Can’t say I’ve always done a great job of it but for me it feels like it has made a difference the older I’ve gotten.

And of course, social media (including lemmy) is horrible for self confidence so don’t binge if you can help it.

This is what I mean. Why isn’t there an option to not auto connect? Why do we need to select per car? It really does feel odd.

Far and away my least favorite aspect of Android auto is not having a simple, easy option to toggle auto connect.

Another poster shared how to disable auto connect through settings - when I went that route my phone no longer would connect to the car. I had to do it, however because it would auto activate my Bluetooth and fight my wife’s phone to connect in our car.

Android auto started as a phenomenal idea, but through its quest to be as convenient as possible, it went too far and became incredibly burdensome if you have multiusers or don’t want to always connect.

Sorry for my rant, Android auto has really been a frustration for me recently, enough to the point where I’ve uninstalled it entirely and am back to using my phone on a mount.

How likely is a federated threads going to be used to harvest data for whatever advertising or AI purpose meta has?

Aside from ensuring their launch product has immediate content, the only reason meta would do this is for that $$.

That said, it could be a symbiotic relationship with instances who’s users aren’t super worried about that & find value from the addtl content it will surely bring.

What phone are you using? Pixel 4A

Are you happy with it? What are its best and worst qualities? Very happy with it. It’s still very quick - never felt a slowdown, it, was and still is cheap to buy, has a good enough camera, good enough battery life, love the back mounted finger print scanner, and is a good size.

Only real downside is it’s at the tail end of google’s security update support.

Which phones have you had previously? Which were the best and worst of the lot? Smart phones only - Moto X, nexus 4, nexus 6, essential phone, pixel 4a. Liked all of them, but I think moto x I liked the least & essential phone I liked the most.

How often do you upgrade to a new phone? When my previous one is broken or the OS gets too slow.

What other Android ecosystem devices do you have? Watches, headphones/earbuds, etc. Tablets is all.

Do you also use any Apple products, or are you Android all the way? (And/or Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, etc.) No apple products. I won’t pay premium prices and I’m pretty set on the Google eco system for better or for worse. Have a few windows OS computers either that I built or use for work.

Watching the last 3 weeks has been exciting. Dead subs springing to life & much more content. New subs every single day.