#workaround

[thesimcommunity]

Player Finds Potential Workaround For The Sims 4 Black Photos Bug

Reddit user u/Elfinemly shared a handy workaround that helped them from Sims 4 black photos bug happening in their game. Note that this test

[gofancyninjaworld]

[otter502]

Ublock origin hijinxs

Fight against the ads!

Sooo chrome is trying to block manifest V2 extensions, which includes ones like Ublock origin. Here's how I got around it, this won't work forever... but it works for now and that's enough for me: (explanation on the bottom)

goto chrome://flags

set "temporarily unexpire M139 flags" to enabled

relaunch

the flag "Allow legacy extension manifest versions" should now be a flag, set it to enabled

relaunch and download Ublock origin's release .zip file from their *official* github (be sure to grab the one that has a green "latest" tag)

Then extract the zip into a folder (preferably somewhere organized but ya know anywhere works)

then you need to goto chrome://extensions and enable developer mode

then press "load unpacked" and select the folder that looks like this

Viola! now you have a version of ublock origin on chrome!

A quick explanation of what each step does is below for those curious!

chrome://flags is a list of settings you can change and some are enabled or disabled. These can be experimental, quality of life, or developer features! These flags are sometimes rotated out / expire as the chrome team makes a decision on experimental features and such. What you do here is say

"hey unexpire the flags that expired as of M139" (no clue what M139 is and I'm so curious), then you can access the setting that tells the computer "yo please allow this outdated manifest format to be used for extensions" (this allows extensions specific abilities that ublock origin use).

The manifest of an extension basically, (btw not area of expertise so like, take with grain of salt), tells chrome what resources the extension is going to use (accompanying scripts, images, permissions, etc) so that it can make sure it has everything needed to run properly! They recently made an update to the manifest version which changes what permissions can be used among other things!

Anyways when you goto extensions and load an unpacked extension you are saying "hey chrome! I have an extension on my computer over here (points at folder containing manifest.json) go look at it's manifest and run the scripts when the manifest tells you too!"

This is also what happens when you grab something off the chrome app store (which you can't do with ublock origin anymore because of the V2 manifest (sadge)), it's just stored in a spot that chrome already knows about!

Heres the one for google translate's chrome extension

all of them have an extension ID that you can find in chrome://extensions under each extensions details (google translates: cnlcgkdciplddakeeameghnjnngjjnli)

here's the file path for those curious who want to see it for yourself! C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\[extension ID]\[version]

[techniktagebuch]

Januar 2026

Es hätte so einfach sein können, schon vor Jahren

Ich habe immer noch sehr gern sehr viele Tabs offen. Ich brauche die alle! Während ich diesen Beitrag schreibe, sind es nur 167, also etwas weniger als im März 2024 (234). 2024 schrieb ich:

"Der Framework-Laptop neigt zum Überhitzen, oft stürzen einzelne Browsertabs ab und ein bis zwei Mal täglich beendet sich entweder Firefox oder das ganze Gerät startet neu. Alles nicht schlimm, es geht schnell und ich habe dadurch noch keine Daten verloren."

Von "ein bis zwei Mal täglich" konnte ich in letzter Zeit nur träumen, es war viel öfter. Aber mir ist in der Zwischenzeit auch klarer geworden, dass es nicht am armen Framework-Laptop lag, sondern an Firefox und zu wenig RAM (diese Annahme war immer noch falsch, aber dazu komme ich gleich). Ich habe 16 GB RAM und könnte zwar ganz einfach welches nachrüsten, aber meine gelegentlichen Ausflüge in den Framework-Zubehör-Shop sind immer gleich verlaufen: Ich denke "RAM ist doch sicher viel billiger als früher, ich kaufe jetzt einfach mal ganz viel!", ich sehe mir die Preise an, ich denke "ach, dann lieber mehrmals täglich den Browser neu starten". Und das war noch vor der großen RAM-Knappheit.

Ich habe gar nicht mehr nachgesehen, sondern mich stattdessen von der Kagi AI beraten lassen, ob sich nicht doch durch Einstellungen was verbessern lässt. Ein Browser muss ja nicht alles verfügbare RAM an sich reißen, ich erinnere mich an Zeiten, in denen es anders und etwas besser war. Meine Frage endet mit "Is there anything I can do (that isn't 'use fewer tabs' or 'buy more RAM')?"

Im ersten Versuch kommt dabei nichts raus. Ich ändere einige vielversprechend klingende Einstellungen in about:config von Firefox, aber die Absturzfrequenz bleibt gleich. Ich frage noch mal nach:

"I implemented some of your changes but it's as bad as ever. I switch to a tab, the browser tries to load the content and this bogs down the whole laptop so much that I can't even open System Monitor and kill the process. I have to restart the whole laptop."

Und diesmal kommen die Informationen heraus, die mir bisher gefehlt haben:

Firefox versions 119/120+ and especially 132.0-1 have confirmed memory leak issues. Users report Firefox consuming 10+ GB of RAM and freezing entire systems. This affects even users with 32GB of RAM. Mehr RAM kaufen hätte mir also gar nichts genützt. Firefox's automatic tab unloading is disabled by default on Linux warum! WARUM! which explains why your previous changes didn't help. Enable it: Go to about:config Set browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory = true Firefox will unload tabs when memory drops below 400MB

Eine einzige Einstellung! Man muss nur wissen, dass sie existiert und wo! "Unload tabs" bedeutet, dass die Icons besonders RAM-fressender Tabs grau werden und es eine Sekunde länger dauert, wenn ich so ein Tab wieder betrete, weil der Inhalt erst neu geladen werden muss. Das ist jetzt ein paar Tage her, seitdem schnurrt der Browser wieder wie etwas sehr Schnurrendes und ich werde gleich 200 weitere Tabs aufmachen, because I can.

(Kathrin Passig)

[hashimasims]

So . . .

If anyone is like me and still dealing with sims needing to be reintroduced to their infants at age up (A bug that they definitely fixed🙄🙄 🙄) I found another workaround besides hiring a one time nanny.

control the infant and have them smile at the parent in question once (maybe twice) and all the interactions should unlock for the parent. Be warned that you will need to cheat the smile milestone if the infant hasn't gotten it yet (just a warning for people who don't like using cheats really)

Just had to do this with Minthe's baby since it was going to take the Nanny 12 sim hours to arrive and poor baby was hungry I didn't need Them taken away!!!

[themaradwrites]

uBlock Origin & Chrome

As of the start of March 2025, Chrome removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Store.

HOWEVER, you can still install it.

If you have to use Chrome for whatever reason - work, neurodivergent reasons, whatever - neowin.com has a guide for you!

The long and short of it is:

If you already have uBlock Origin installed previously: Go to chrome://extensions. uBlockOrigin is still in the list, just automatically disabled by Google. Toggle it to enable it.

If you don't have uBlock but want it, you're going to have to do a little HTML editing. Nothing too difficult - just a right click to inspect element and changing a word in the resulting text box from 'disabled' to 'enabled'. The link above has a guide for it.

And if you're planning to move off Chrome to another browser of choice like Firefox, enjoy it!

[willcodehtmlforfood]

Clever workaround speeds YouTube ads up instead of blocking them [Video]

A super clever workaround for YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers sees YouTube ads sped up dramatically instead of blocking them.

[allamanamedearl]

You know if the fic you've been reading has been around long enough, you can try putting the url into the way back machine on archive.org and be able to access an archived version of it.

That's right, the archive has been archived :p

The trick is just getting the urls which you can probably find posted on author's tumblrs