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Alexa. I use Alexa constantly, except my Echos drop off the network and have to be manually restarted by unplugging them. And I curse every time one of them starts up with, "by the…

Speaking of electronic devices, an appliance is generally locked down, and the manufacturer limits the number of use cases. You end up with something that is not a general-purpose …

If you like and use em dashes, you figure it out

I use em dashes constantly. I've been a Mac user for years, where the em dash is a modified hyphen on the Mac keyboard. When I moved to primarily using PCs, the em dash alt-key com…

That setting is under User Configuration on my Win11 Pro PC, so look in both.

Or just use http://lite.cnn.com/en . It's great that they still support a "text" version.

Coworking spaces need to colocate with services. Starbucks, Fedex Kinkos, massage chairs....

The author might be formatting for and editing in dark mode. I use edge://flags/#enable-force-dark and the links are readable.

People either bring email etiquette (Hi, how are you, I need...") or phone etiquette (Hi, how are you?" ...) to chat. Email etiquette has always seemed natural to me, but a lot of …

Different cultures. Your culture determines who sets expectations and who enforces them in these situations, and Indians can work with their culture's existing system for organizin…

EPub is, like html, reformattable by the reader, so documents aren't fixed in the way PDFs are.

> Wouldn't it be much better to just refute the claim instead of attack the person's motives? No, at some point, and we have absolutely passed it in the US, you can be overwhelmed …

Visiting Ft Lauderdale as students on spring break and chatting with barflies gives one of them the germ of the idea....

It probably should be your own device; the audiogram ends up in the iPhone's health app. It can probably be done by someone else if they don't care and don't need to apply a differ…

I've received Apple Calendar invites containing Chinese characters from individuals I've never heard of. I deleted them, but just receiving them was a bit alarming.

It's still available for Windows on Steam. Edit: And yes, over the years I've wasted many many hours on my Atari ST and Macs running Empires.

"Turned" may be the wrong word. "Cozened" might be more correct. There may be no good way for an individual to identify someone who is being paid to take over their project from so…

It sounds like they're calling it e-paper because it's a variable refresh reflective LCD, not e-ink.

My first impression is that I'm not seeing increased resolution. It looks a lot like an overapplied sharpness filter (too much contrast around existing edges).

>changing people is so surprisingly hard—no matter how much you focus on the person in front of you, you’ll never appreciate the million tiny influences that made them who they are…

I'm not very good at eyeballing it, so it helps me stay consistent.

Making espresso with my semi-auto Breville Infuser is almost exactly as much fuss as a pour-over: - Turn it on to heat up - Grind the beans - Weigh the grounds - Fill, tamp, and at…

I answer a support line for users at my institution installing an unsigned application and almost every MacOS support call is because the unsigned app option is only shown in a nor…

Baking is literally chemistry. You don't get consistent results if you measure a powder of quite variable density by volume instead of mass.

> Meta also noted that there was “nothing new here,” continuing that this issue was reported on years ago. Meta may wish it was no longer newsworthy, but being reported on and bein…