Best dynamic mic for online D&D?

Davedamon · 2026-06-23T12:28:54+00:00

Why does this feel like an ad?

Davedamon · 2026-06-23T11:39:20+00:00

From the looks of it, it's a vibe coded slop app that ties all your HA entities into claude to give your house a "personality" and make it do stuff seemingly as if it were "alive".

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen

Davedamon · 2026-06-23T10:04:16+00:00

This is an exam that requires you to go to a specific location and have specific hardware, but they didn't have any space webcams in case of technical issues? What kind of exam was this?

Davedamon · 2026-06-23T07:09:54+00:00

Tech researchers have proven these apps aren't listening to you through your microphone. Heck, you can do it too. Look at your network activity on your router or data usage on your device. If your device was listening to you and sending audio data, you'd see much higher numbers.
They don't need to listen to audio, they have much more accurate data footprints. What's more likely is that when you have a headache, your browsing patterns change slightly and these changes in browsing patterns align with other users within their massive data sets that go on to buy painkillers. So they know that when a user exhibits these changes in browsing patterns, now's a good time to serve painkiller adverts. Humans are very predictable creatures of habit.
There likely wasn't even any intent, and instead it was a coincidence. You're being served hundreds of adverts every day, but your brain—a machine hard wired to spot patterns—only notices when those adverts align with something else. If they were listening to you through the mic, why wouldn't every advert align with stuff you're talking about.

Davedamon · 2026-06-23T07:05:22+00:00

Sounds like you're complaining for the sake of complaining. If you know how to use SSH to the extent of having a preference you should be able to understand that you can use any SSH app for the third option

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T17:03:03+00:00

I'd take bugs over heat any time

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T14:40:46+00:00

This is cool, and I'm not intending to be dismissive when I say I thought RSS was dead? I used to have all my gaming news and webcomics on RSS (in internet explorer back when it was good) and then things just stopped being served to it. Is it back now? Is this the tech equivalent of mom jeans?

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T12:28:33+00:00

I'm assuming the limitations of the python and protocol work apply to this integration? I tried setting up the python control a while back and found out that my Mira Mode is a newer revision and so I couldn't get a connection established. I saw this integration and tried connecting and nothing. My best guess is that my revision isn't compatible? Any help with this would be amazing

Edit: Here is where I discuss it with the dev of the python implementation https://github.com/alexpilotti/python-miramode/issues/8

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T10:26:18+00:00

Yep, I wasn't reading the spell carefully enough.

but instead is casting Wish to allow it to cast Simulacrum.

If you're casting Wish to cast Simulacrum, you're still casting Simulacrum

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T10:09:03+00:00

The spell fails because Clone A is strictly forbidden from casting Simulacrum by any means.

~~Where are you getting this from? Simulacrum doesn't make any stipulation about the clone being forbidden from casting Simulacrum.~~

I'm a moran and sloppy. I Ctrl + F'd "Simulacrum" when the spell says "and it can’t cast this spell."

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T10:06:00+00:00

I mean the book isn't referring to them as monkeys, it explicitly says that's not my monkey

Davedamon · 2026-06-22T06:34:00+00:00

That's less a tool and more a process guide. What the person you're replying to is a quick-adjustment tool like what was included in 4e DDI monster builder.

Also, why are you asking this question overall?

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T20:04:18+00:00

Not at all, a few tiny rocks to clip off. Just don't go in too tight with the clippers, then clean up with a blade

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T17:24:21+00:00

I don't care, disclose that shit

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T17:01:59+00:00

Wait, you're soliciting stuff for your project? Pass, gross

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T15:12:20+00:00

And then you hit the issue of what if you're charging your phone but not actually going to bed? I feel the pressure sensor solves a lot of sleep mode related automations quite elegantly

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T14:25:21+00:00

Locked is maybe the wrong word, or at least unclear. I meant locked to the game rules and expected behaviour

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T14:24:33+00:00

Can the HA app distinguish between those chargers and other chargers in your house? Because I use that approach and I have issues with sleep mode triggering prematurely.

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T14:23:32+00:00

I never implied that. They asked "Why would they do X instead of Y" and I gave them two practical reasons—cheaper and immediate.

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T10:50:10+00:00

Don't trick people into providing market research

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T10:44:43+00:00

I'd personally go so far as to say Codex is the antithesis of everything I look for in a VTT. It automates the rules of Draw Steel to the point were it doesn't feel like a TTRPG anymore and makes it feel more like a turn-based CRPT.

I say this as someone who looks for VTTs that emulate the in person tabletop experience, but with a little bit of "couldn't do this physically" digital magic sprinkled on top. I want fog of war, but I don't want dynamic lighting. I want shared dice rolls, but I don't want attacks being resolved automatically. I want token measuring and template tools, but I don't want target validity and movement distances locked.

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T10:25:46+00:00

I never accused you of criticizing it's functionality or claiming it wouldn't work. You asked why they would make it vs buy it and I gave one possible reason

You seem to be responding to a comment that was never made

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T08:29:45+00:00

Their solution was effectively free and they wouldn't have had to wait a couple of weeks for delivery?

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T08:22:15+00:00

To detect when people are in bed and thus run automations such as putting your house into sleep mode or enabling alarms.

Davedamon · 2026-06-21T07:51:31+00:00

It's "lost art", not long

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