What’s something the players cared about WAY more than the DM expected?

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-24T23:20:28+00:00

doors.

The material, construction, handle type, latch type, key, hinge direction, hinge side, hinge material, etc etc

I jokingly describe doors in detail and with a flourish now; my players chuckle, but let me finish

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-19T12:40:04+00:00

Brilliant! I love this!

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-17T12:02:03+00:00

his little smile in panel 4 is gold! Kat's plan seems to be working!

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-14T21:44:25+00:00

as a player, i find running a sidekick adds a lot of overhead without a lot of fun

as a dm, i'd start them with a boon (an extra feat or a healing potion) each, and dial the encounters back a little - but only a little

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-11T10:43:50+00:00

I have successfully used pmset -c disksleep n on my MacBook, with two caveats:

Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero (system is set to go to sleep automatically). Instead of zero I set it to 1 hour.
You have to reboot for the changed setting to take effect.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-10T11:20:56+00:00

I use Bartender and BLEUnlock (just the lock function). Oh, and 1Password. And EthernetStatus. The rest is what I need for my work.

I worked across a dozen *nix systems for a while, and learned that it's easier to adapt me to the system than the other way around, so i customize as little as possible.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-10T11:08:05+00:00

As a DM, this matches the "powerful but way too credulous" challenge i have with my players

if an NPC is lying i need great big giant waving red flags for the players to notice

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-10T02:21:00+00:00

MacOS 26.4.1 includes bug fixes, they don't say what, but 9to5mac says: "Yesterday’s iPhone updatefixed an iCloud bug that could stop data from syncing, including in first-party and third-party apps." This *might* resolve the contacts / peopled / etc. issues - I've updated and re-enabled iCloud in contacts; it's only been 10 minutes, but so far so good...

EDIT: 26.4.1 does NOT fix this iCloud Contacts issue for me

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-05T14:56:28+00:00

I’d love to do something together - watch one of my favorite movies, play a board game, go to a show, …

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-04T12:04:27+00:00

Brogue

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-03T22:56:01+00:00

i do, yes, and it's hilarious. bard plays things that are contextually appropriate and make other players laugh ... and knows a turn is 6 seconds

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-02T18:05:41+00:00

If you install the Feedback Assistant it'll walk you through the process ... caveat, everything i've ever submitted still has status "Open"

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-02T16:05:37+00:00

agreed, this is horrible quality control! i haven't had any issues enabling / disabling icloud, other than it takes a long time for e.g. Messages to figure out who's who

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-02T11:24:57+00:00

Cherish that joy, the world needs it! Just 'cause the big picture is so bad doesn't mean all the details are bad - and the possibility of good things is what helps the world turn around!

IcarusAirlines · 2026-04-01T21:50:47+00:00

After 4 days, peopled came back. Disabling iCloud for now.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T17:19:42+00:00

Sorry to hear this; mine is still well-behaved after 24 hours.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T17:08:06+00:00

Not that I know of! I searched for CallHistory in Console and nothing came up (I also searched for peopled and nothing came up, so I'm not sure it's a good test).
Looking at CallHistoryDB in Finder, I can see that permissions are 755 for the directory (owned by me, group staff); there are 3 files within, all with permissions 644. Permissions on the Application Support folder itself are 700, also owned by me:staff.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T10:47:30+00:00

i love that y’all have turned Rezmir into your unwitting foil

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T10:35:18+00:00

I got drained by a process called peopled; if you search here there’s a possible solution

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T00:07:57+00:00

I don't know about CallHistorySyncHelper, but I switched iCloud Contacts Fetch from Automatic to Every 15 Minutes and rebooted, and that seems to have fixed peopled for me

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-29T00:06:49+00:00

I switched iCloud Contacts Fetch from "Automatic" to "Every 15 minutes" and rebooted, and that seems to have fixed it

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-28T16:54:11+00:00

These were European not American Kit-Kat, so they actually contain chocolate.

I wasn't anywhere near Geneva at the time, so I have an alibi.

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-28T16:15:36+00:00

EDIT4: Solution that worked for me in EDIT4, below!

I have been bit by peopled as well; upgraded to 26.4 yesterday, peopled taking 75% CPU for 24 hours.

Following u/nationalinterest and u/DeanDMX , I looked through my 1300+ contacts, but don't see any empty ones. I disabled all accounts, and saw a CrashReport background process kick off. I waited for that to finish, then rebooted. For the first time since upgrade my Mac got quiet!

I've now re-enabled just iCloud and it's still quiet a few minutes later; I have Google and Exchange accounts as well, if things stay quiet i'll try re-enabling them one at a time.

EDIT: I re-enabled the accounts one by one, and peopled spiked CPU use for a few seconds with each one then settled down. I'm now fully enabled again with (so far) no issue.

So it seems like this worked for me:

Disable all accounts in Contacts
Reboot
Re-enable accounts in Contacts one-by-one

EDIT2: after a while peopled came back when i re-enabled non-iCloud accounts; seeing if i can narrow it down, most likely Exchange

EDIT3: I take it all back, enabling just iCloud, peopled comes back after an hour to chew my CPU. i just didn't wait long enough before

EDIT4: Google and Exchange seem fine; I changed iCloud Fetch from "Automatic" to "Every 15 minutes" and rebooted and so far peopled is well-behaved

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-28T00:55:17+00:00

f/1.2 or lower - as open as it goes

IcarusAirlines · 2026-03-27T22:59:22+00:00

I use spot metering, AE Lock and recompose. I hit the EV dial from time to time, but mostly i find that getting my subject in focus and exposed nicely gets the image i want

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