How to start playing tabletop RPGs like D&D and Cyberpunk 2020 Step one: Know your role You can easily search Google for “the most popular” tabletop games, but it’s probably better to think of TTRPGs like you would a series of books. Just because everyone likes The Lord of The Rings doesn’t mean you will. In this case, the big dog in the TTRPG world isDungeons and Dragons. But if fighting goblins with swords and magic isn’t your thing that world might not appeal to you....

How to stay motivated at work if COVID-19 has crushed your vacation plans Take time off regardless — you need a vacation I totally appreciate that a staycation, or sitting around your living room for two weeks, is far less appealing than sunning yourself in the Mediterranean but you should still consider taking the time off, if you can. After all, you’ve probably endured a lot of challenges and change over the past several months and that, my friend, can take its toll — both mentally and physically....

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you’re using WhatsApp as your primary chat app, it lets you archive old conversations, so they don’t appear in your inbox. However, if there’s a new message in any of those conversations, you will see it back in your inbox. Thankfully, WhatsApp has changed that feature to let you keep archived messages from popping back to your inbox — even if there’s a new chat....

How to stop Google self-preferencing? Europe may not be the model A congressional subcommittee last week recommended new nondiscrimination rules for big tech firms, but experts say the trick is enforcement Google’s solutions Googleappealedthe decision but also introduced a menu of four search providers that users can choose from when they set up their phones. Search providers had to bid to be included. Privacy-protecting DuckDuckGo lost the September auction inall but four countries, and Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine that puts revenues toward planting trees, won a single spot....

Something horrible keeps happening: I upgraded to watchOS 8 and now a computer shouts at me while I’m working out. I’ll be running or doing yoga and, out of nowhere, a disembodied voice will tell me how far I’ve gone or that I’ve closed my exercise ring. It’s haunting. Look, there’s nothing wrong this new feature per se — it’s just not for me. Voice Feedback (which is what it’s called) just takes me out the zone while I’m exercising....