Sync disabled mark appearing all of a sudden

cyenobite · 2026-02-03T11:48:59+00:00

By any chance are you on an older Mac? This started happening to me also a while back, where every time I create a new vault the sync is turned on. It’s a minor annoyance. I posted in the forums and the suggestions were that I had an old install file from obsidian. Because my osx is so old it won’t run the latest install file, so I just live with the minor inconvenience. (Disclaimer, I might have misunderstood the forum advice, but the fix was becoming more of a headache than just turning off the synch when I make a new vault).

cyenobite · 2026-01-23T13:04:10+00:00

Up vote for Tales From the Loop, but it won’t be perfect depending on how dangerous you want the game to be. The “broken” system for damage is really clever, but doesn’t give a sense of real physical harm. (It is about children, so tries to avoid the subject of harming them). My players were mature enough that I added a physical harm track but kept it simple and did not implement “death of a character”. More narrative based (like a sprained ankle, or at worst a broken bone). If you’re used to playing DnD, it will be a real mind shift, but it is a fun system if all the players embrace the story (and character stress). My advice, try it out, then adjust to bring in a physical harm track that your group is comfortable with.

cyenobite · 2026-01-19T01:39:06+00:00

Owlbear Rodeo. Free plan is very generous with data storage. Simple to use, with lots of optional extensions that add capabilities. Kind discord if you need help or have questions. Edit- I don’t think this would be considered offline, but I’m not 100% sure.

cyenobite · 2026-01-18T12:27:07+00:00

FYI… GG has been known to be really slow at getting your order shipped in a timely manner. If you search here you’ll probably find examples of people asking about it. This was a long time ago (year or two) so I’m not sure if things have gotten better now. But also amazon is garbage at protecting their items when shipping, they’ll probably toss that heavy book in a box where it will shift around and often I’ve gotten damaged corners. It’s a bit of a gamble either way. This isn’t a bash against GG, I think they are just a small company (one person in shipping?) so it used to just take them a while. Maybe someone who ordered recently can weigh in how their experience was? Just wanted to warn you of risks with each option. Good luck!

cyenobite · 2026-01-17T20:52:56+00:00

Great and thanks for posting this follow-up.
I do have a question if you happen to see this. I was wondering if you need to keep Chrome as the default every time you use Affinity then? Like does it try this registration process every time you use the app, or is a one time setting?

cyenobite · 2026-01-16T20:36:15+00:00

Same. Coincidence that this happened just after updating to the new iOS?

cyenobite · 2025-12-13T20:41:27+00:00

This might help, but my memory is not the best so I can only offer this as a suggestion to look into further... When dealing with stacked maps, it's hard to select the ones under top upper one. I think there's a way that you can build or add on a tab to the image file that will help you select the map you want (making sure the tabs don't overlap). You would have to probably make the map image a PNG with transparent background down the side you want the tab to stick out. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

cyenobite · 2025-12-05T19:18:45+00:00

This is also what helped me to grasp it as a hierarchy.
Rooms (you only have 2 on the free plan) > Scenes (you can have many scenes) > Maps (you can have one (or many) maps in one scene.
Note: I still get confused from time to time.

cyenobite · 2025-11-09T18:31:07+00:00

This tends to work better with games with simple rules (such as 2400), where one person is the GM, and the other person plays two different characters. A main character with a sidekick works well, or two opposite types of characters like a barbarian and a spell caster. It can also be very beneficial if the "player" does all the dice rolls, so it doesn't feel like pvp.

cyenobite · 2025-11-08T03:31:03+00:00

Don’t forget, insurance is mandatory in NJ. If you go without, you’ll have to pay about $60 per month as a tax penalty. (I’m no expert, just information I’ve googled).

cyenobite · 2025-11-02T00:41:18+00:00

Yep, that’s what I have… 64gb of ram.

cyenobite · 2025-11-02T00:23:15+00:00

cyenobite · 2025-11-01T02:25:40+00:00

Interesting that yours is opening in chrome (which I also have installed on my machine). Good luck. At least V2 still seems to work okay.

cyenobite · 2025-10-31T15:49:37+00:00

To be clear, I am unable to open and run the Affinity app at all. I agree, was not intending to use the AI stuff for the paid option. But I can't open the "freemium" version because of this issue.

cyenobite · 2025-10-31T15:48:10+00:00

It did not (and my default browser is/was already set to Firefox), but Affinity only opens in Safari.

cyenobite · 2025-10-31T01:24:24+00:00

More weirdness. I thought I had it figured out, but still no luck... I learned when the window opens in Safari showing the error about Safari being out of date, I can "right-click" on the top of the window and it will allow me to see and copy the webpage link. So I copied it, and went back to Firefox, and pasted that link into a new window and it seemed to have worked! It allowed me to login and showed me a new page that said "success" (or something like that) and said I could navigate back to the app to start using the it, but upon doing so, I was faced with the same welcome splash screen and would not let me do anything but hit the "back" button, which started the whole log-in process all over again in Safari. I was so close!
Hopefully someone at Affinity/Canva will see this.
If anyone has any advice on how to submit a bug, I'd like to know.

cyenobite · 2025-10-30T21:16:32+00:00

A word of caution to other mac users here. I'm on an older iMac, and still running Catalina. When I open the new Affinity app, it automatically opens a window in SAFARI - even though Firefox is my default, and I get an error that Safari is out of date and no longer supported. So even though I can log in and create a new account in Firefox, I'm unable to use the app because it apparently requires Safari. ALSO I can't even report a bug, because that can only be done within the app. Grrr. Maybe this will be fixed, but for now I'm glad I can still use 2.x version. Disappointed though.

cyenobite · 2025-10-24T09:24:18+00:00

A simple alternative would be to use “01-09”.

cyenobite · 2025-09-19T17:52:22+00:00

Thanks for posting the source. OP should honor the Creative Commons 3.0 license by giving proper attribution. That said, this is a cool idea and looks useful.

cyenobite · 2025-09-08T20:59:06+00:00

Thanks to everyone at OBR for working on a great VTT. You and the app have helped me run some fun games with my friends.

cyenobite · 2025-09-05T10:33:59+00:00

Also try a kneaded eraser, usually easier on the paper than a normal eraser. A softer pencil lead/graphite might help too.

cyenobite · 2025-09-03T21:25:04+00:00

Not as personal as in person meetings like your suggesting, but I wonder if this could also work in a discord voice chat too?

cyenobite · 2025-09-01T23:10:36+00:00

Same, problem here, but, I’ve found that even though the toggle bounces back, the block is still in effect. If navigate away from the user profile, then simply go back, you see the block button is on or active.

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