As the article explains, non western names will be reordered or incorrectly shortened to fit western standards. As an example, the Telugu name “Venkata Satyanarayana Naidu” is ordered family name - personal name - caste suffix, so it might get rendered as “V. Satyanarayana Naidu”, “V.S Naidu”, “S. Venkata Naidu”, or “S.V. Naidu”, none of which are correct ways to shorten their name.

that fails to turn some lights on and off

This is the biggest issue I have with smart gadgets and home automation - they fuck up. Not even getting into the additional pains of fixing the automation when it fails, I’ve literally never gone wrong with pressing a light switch, or possibly pulling a cord. Full 100% success rate without rounding, even when the wifi’s down. I have to walk past the switches (and cords) to enter and exit rooms, so not pressing them on the way past doesn’t even save me any actual time.
Most of the automation I see seems to be the same - it introduces a chance of failure to something that already works, and/or imagines itself a solution to something that isn’t actually a problem. Boilers, fridges, toasters, beds - these were basically solved technologies until someone came along and decided to reinvent the wheel.
There’s a handful that do provide quality of life improvements to disabled people, but the overwhelming majority just seem to be parlour tricks that don’t reduce the human workload.

I can’t find the same picture but here’s another - it’s one of the statues put up at Nuremberg https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0222/27/massive-german-eagle-hakenkreuz_1_caf410b150e740e75586106150bff6eb.jpg

Nope, both were displayed - the angled version was more common, but both forms of Hakenkreuz were used by the NSDAP.

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/nazi-germany-nazi-ss-troops-marching-everett.jpg
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/184253409/photo/nazi-party-rally-germany-1931.jpg
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2YXEK99/wwii-nazi-storm-troopers-saluting-the-swastika-zweiter-weltkrieg-nazi-sturmtruppen-gren-das-hakenkreuz-2YXEK99.jpg

With TTRPGs particularly the intellectual and creative labour isn’t just rewarding, it often is the reward. Farming that out to an AI is already pointless before the AI fucks it all up.

When I worked as a TA one of my coworkers refused to teach KS1. Said they were feral. I spent a week teaching 7 year olds and could definitely appreciate her stance.

This is why I never make serious characters and love PF2e/SF2e for their heavy mechanical support for silly goobers

As the other user said, get Mint Cinnamon on a USB. I moved to Linux last year (now on Bazzite KDE) and it wasn’t the leap I expected, more just a small shuffle. Everything is roughly where you expect it to be and works how you expect it to, but like actually where you’d expect and working how you expect. Like if Windows 10 had been designed just for usability without corporate interests clogging everything up. The only reason it may take a while to customise to your liking is that you can customise far, far more of it straight out of the box.

PF2e has proficiency without level for a grittier experience, but even then I don’t think it’s the best option for low lives and ne’er-do-wells unless you limit it to about level 3. Might be worth looking at Hopefinder, which is a PF2e hack, but the default setting is a zombie apocalypse and I think it relies a lot on short stories.

You can’t stop me being late, I run the game. I have an entire channel in the group chat solely dedicated to my excuses for being late. They always suck. I’ve turned up on time to maybe half a dozen sessions in the last 6 years. If I turn up within 20 minutes of the starting time my players don’t even count it as late anymore.

The main thing I’ve learnt is to tell your players as much as you can before you start playing. Give them background lore, locations and maps, give them descriptions of well known characters - tell them everything a normal person in the setting would know and they’ll engage with the story far more, because they feel like part of the setting rather than an outsider looking in.
For my most recent campaign I wrote a 9 page guide that detailed mechanical restrictions, backstory requirements, and common themes that would crop up throughout the campaign, and everyone turned up to their session 0 with a complete character whose presence and motivations closely fitted the story, including the guy who was in prison for the first 4 sessions.

It’s not vastly more than every Chinese person planting 1 tree a year. If you pay people to plant 10 trees a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year you only need to employ one person in every 2400 to get close.

After the session the DM pulled me aside and reminded me two other members of the party have also died, and are still with us.

Sounds like you’re probably fine then. Or approximately fine, at least - last time I did that to a player I meant the party had enough funds for a reincarnation ritual, so apart from turning from a halfling to a gnoll the biggest consequence was the other PCs having to explain to the dead PC’s parents that their daughter had been eaten by a Froghemoth.