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Cake day: June 29th, 2024

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  • I use GrapheneOS with a restricted user profile and OpenTimeLimit for my daughter. The phone always connects to our home network using wireguard and automate.

    Works reasonably well, can do all kinds of complex scenarios with time limits, different groups that are allowed always, at different times, never, etc.

    Even blocks all kinds of system apps such that by default even Wallpaper changes are blocked.

    Only thing that is open for me is web access. Currently, no browser is installed in the profile, but at some point she might need it. Will probably do NextDNS or similar. Too much hassle to do all that locally.

    Most other things run on my homeserver (dawarich for family tracking, ha access, adblocking pihole, jellyfin, immich, etc etc)





  • Totally reletable, I actually want the same functions. I will stick to something more conservative at the moment to test and also because it is relevant for my work.

    AgentZero has builtin connectors to Email, Telegram and WhatsApp. You can install plugins for Matrix or Discord. Not sure about the security model as I do not use these currently.

    However, it also has a secrets store that replaces secrets in tool calls locally. I use it for SSH access to another machine.

    The a0 connector can be used to link it to your PC locally for projects that require file acces, etc.





  • That is also my preffered style of play.

    For many, many years we used “adventures” which were either written by some author or prepared by a GM. This was often fun, but also frustrating. The plots were often not flexible enough to work out in all cases, as a GM it might be frustrating if players just skip big parts of the story and in the end it was never so much about the story, but more about fights, rules, stats and so on.

    These days you have super cool systems like Blades in the Dark, which do away with planning and encourage you to just play to find out. I much prefer this spontaneous exploration of rough story arcs that are very flexible and often player driven.

    Personally, I run a Burning Wheel game which was 100% created by the group and in each session is driven by what the players want to do. My preparation time is roughly 1 hour before each session and the rest happens at the table.


  • As a counterpoint I would like to add that it also depends on your general style of play and the system your are playing.

    I’m GMing a Burning Wheel group which is 100% player driven. We created the world and general story arc together and in Burning Wheel each Character has beliefs that are serving as story guidelines for me. I usually spend one hour on preparation to outline some challenges to their beliefs or a few kickers to stir the story up a bit. The rest happens at the table.











  • Mal wieder quergepostet, damit es auch hier Lesende mitbekommen.

    Mich hat es tierisch genervt, in der 1./2. Klasse häufig sinnlose Hausaufgaben meiner Tochter zu begleiten. Der Stress für alle Beteiligten war sehr hoch und aus meiner Sicht unnötig, wenn man die Evidenz betrachtet.

    Fände es auch wirklich sehr gut, wenn man die Schüler später “sortiert”. Ich hatte noch eine Orientierungsstufe 5./6. Klasse und erst dann ging es ab 7. Klasse weiter. Ich weiß noch sehr genau wie ich in der 6. Klasse das erste Mal kapiert habe, dass diese Noten auf dem Zettel namens Zeugnise tatsächlich eine Bedeutung für mich und mein Leben haben.