#workaround

Fahrräder haben keinen Rückspiegel mehr; mein Schreibtisch schon

Aus Organisationsgründen ziehe ich in ein anderes Büro. Fenster, Anschlüsse und die notwendige Rangierfläche für den Rollstuhl bedingen, dass ich mit dem Rücken zu meiner Kollegin und zur Tür sitze. Andere Optionen hätten größere Nachteile. Allerdings öffnen mehrfach am Tag Kolleginnen und Kollegen die Bürotür mit einer Frage an mich. Schon am ersten Tag ist klar, dass meine Umdreh-Reaktionszeit den Betrieb aufhält. Außerdem ist das Ganze anstrengend. Die Lösung ist ein Tischspiegel mit Schwanenhals. So sehe ich sofort, wer in der Tür steht. Besser noch: Alle in der Tür verstehen das Konzept auf Anhieb und sehen in mein Gesicht, zumeist lächelnd. Zwei-Wege-Kommunikation in Echtzeit. Und rasieren könnte ich mich auch noch.

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!

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)

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.

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