I don’t want to give away too much, because some of the people I play with could find this (I don’t know if they use Lemmy but my nick is known and the details would be too unmistakable). But since they’re about to discover it anyways, the wonder does something, without charging the “proper” price for it, eventually they’ll start to lose control of it and it will start doing what it does to them. That should be subtle enough that even if my players find this they won’t know what’s coming but give you an idea. Hope that’s enough to satisfy your curiosity.

Who said I haven’t?

I started a campaign of Monster of the Week, one of the players created a paranoid character who thinks society is controlled by lizards and birds are spy robots for them. So of course I immediately switched my world around, to accommodate that, except it’s not lizard people, but actually Dragons that can take human form and control birds. The game only had a couple of sessions so the group never figured that one out.

And in my current Mage campaign with a different group, they were given this amazing powerful magical wonder, and they keep using it nilly-willy, which is exactly what I expect them to do. Little do they know that it has a price, the price is not part of the current campaign though, they’re worried about other stuff, namely an enemy who they already planned 4 things to happen together, each of which would be enough to defeat him, and to make that happen they used the wonder, over and over again.

First past the post, the winner take all voting system seen in most countries

And by most you mean a dozen or so. Of which the big names are USA, Canada, UK and India, so essentially the UK and their colonies.

I don’t hate it, I think it has its uses, just like text generation. They’re great for brainstorming ideas or quick unimportant stuff like RPG campaigns, so for example an in-game fake company logo or a poem to contain hints for the players.

However trying to use it for anything serious and final is stupid and dangerous. IMO any artist that had their art used to train a model should be able to claim royalties on anything created with that model, regardless of whether they can prove their art was used for the piece. And if the data used to train the model is not made public or can’t be verified, then ANY artist can. Maybe just 1% of the profits direct or indirect of that art, so for example you used AI to generate part of an invitation for a party, 100 artists could start a lawsuit and take every single cent you earned from the party. After all you indirectly hired them, it’s only fair they get paid, had you hired a single artist you could negotiate the price with them.

H is for High Performance, U is for Ultra-Low power usage. So if you want something for gaming choose an H if you want to have hours of battery life choose a U. Pretty simple and easy to st a glance see if s processor is what you’re looking for.

The 7 is not repeated on Ryzen 7 9700X, otherwise you wouldn’t have stuff like the Ryzen 5 1600X. The first 7 (or the 5 in my other example) is the segment, i.e. towards which market it’s directed, Ryzen 3 are entry levels that you should consider for your grandma, Ryzen 9 are high power CPUs. Then the first number of the 4 digits is the generation, the second one is the how it stacks up to others in it’s series, the third and fourth are extra differentiation if needed, then there’s some letters for feature flags. So for example your Ryzen 7 9700X is a high-end 9th generation high clock/performance CPU, just by that name alone I can guess that it outperforms a Ryzen 7 9500X and possibly matches a Ryzen 9 7700X. If you learn to read those it makes it very easy to figure out if an upgrade is worth it just by the model number.

USB naming convention is a mess, I’m not touching that.

Also not sure about the pro, none of my phone’s ever were pro or even had a pro version so not sure.

Sony is a bit weird, but WH-1000XM5 is a Wireless Headband (WH) 1000X is the model M5 is the generation, so those are newer than WH-1000XM4, and the next iteration of them will be called WH-1000XM6. The N is as you guessed noise canceling, the 1000X are top of the line so they have it too, no need to advertise it. I don’t know much about other products of them, but they do seem weird.

Monitor names can be very helpful, for example Dell uses [Series][Diagonal][Year][Ratio or Resolution][Features] so just by looking at a short code, for example I’m not even sure this monitor exists but a U3224QWC is an ultrawide QHD 32 inches IPS with anti-glare monitor released in 2024 with a USB-C input. That being said https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/j5pezf/computer_monitors/

Ook

I mean, yes, but there are ways around it. Windows could have a public key embebed somewhere and the private counterpart gives access, the command could depend on the time it’s received, so it’s never the same and without the private key it’s impossible to reproduce, and the Killswitch could be non-instantaneous, combine all of that and you have a Killswitch that:

• It’s very hard for you to realize something happened, because by the time it happens the trigger is lost in a sea of other requests
• Even if you were to fine comb through all of that and spot it, it’s encrypted
• Even if you were to resend it it would do nothing, because the time has changed
• Even if you managed to find the public key and decrypt it the actual content could be inocuos, like a random looking string
• As long as the private key is secure enough it would be impossible to crack
• Even if you somehow managed to crack it and send anything you want to the PC you don’t know the protocol to generate the random strings and you only have the one example of the message (which no longer works)
• Even if several people did this the content could truly be random (in the common sense of the word, i.e. pseudo-random), since Microsoft controls the RNG on Windows they can use that to ensure that random data gets generated equally

And I’m not even a cryptographer, people who come up with new encryption protocols can surely do a lot better than my naive example above which would make it almost impossible for someone to figure out.

If you’re really the dev, please add support for spoilers, it’s the only thing that makes me consider a different app. I’ve also been using Boost since Reddit, and I have a feeling spoiler tags worked there, but that was long ago and my memory is not that good.

I disagree, I think Cryptonomicon is a very heavy book, might be too much for someone just starting, I’ve been slowly reading it for months, but I end up getting tired of it and reading something else to rest from it before going back and end up forgetting half of the characters and what they were doing.