As someone who has been obsessed with technology since around the time I left diapers (in an era of square-cornered game controllers, VHS tapes, and dial-tuned, wood-grain-clad, floor-standing TVs), I really have little trouble disconnecting on vacation. But, like many of us now, I’ve attained a status of unique…

I thought the Apple TV app on other devices was just for accessing Apple TV+ content, rather than providing the full Apple TV interface with integrated content from other services. But I’ve never been an Apple TV user or Apple TV+ subscriber, so that was pure assumption.

It was an odd way to put it, but I think the distinction here is that Plex is platform agnostic, and it runs on basically everything. Although their apps on some Smart TVs are woefully out-of-date, they do a pretty impressive job maintaining those too. I can hardly blame them for not getting the latest features…

I feel you on the Assassin’s Creed games, but I’m wondering if you’ve actually played the Horizon games. Wandering off in random directions and discovering interesting encounters and geography is like 90% of the game for me. Just a few days ago I accidentally wandered into a place where I triggered a main story…

Oh man, I didn’t even think about objects on the far side of the central mass. Or rather, I think I was imagining that we must be so distant from center that bodies on the far side would be outside of the visible universe. But honestly I have no idea how much of the universe humanity is capable of observing from earth…

Yeah, that was an almost spit-take for me, followed by acceptance, and sadness. But I work at a science center where upper management has declined to show IMAX movies because they used the word “evolution.”

This seems like a good place to share a pet hypothesis because it looks like there are some smart folks here who could point out its fatal flaw, which I’d like to find, if it exists. I’m not an astro-physicist, just am armchair scientist who hasn’t been able to float my idea past the right people to either have it…

Thanks! I don’t think I’ve hit that section yet, so that explains it. I had started doing them in early February and got fairly far along in the free online version (with an uploaded W2) but it wasn’t coming up there, and I figured I needed to buy the full version. But when I started over with software and got to the…

Does anyone here know which (if any) tax prep software can cover disaster losses? I’ve read the rules a bit and I believe I should be able to deduct all losses that weren’t reimbursed by insurance, which actually exceeds my family’s income for the year. But I couldn’t find a place for it on the free online version of…

The central conceit of this article is inherently flawed. If you’re older and you text like an old, the young’uns you’re texting know you and can interpret your communications through that lens.

I’ve always heard this too (eye contact and face proximity), but I think it depends on the dog, the person, and their relationship. I didn’t grow up with dogs but my wife did and we’re a dog (and cat) family now.

Before I even start, I’m expecting: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy

I turned off my ad blocker and now I can’t see any of the text. It’s relegated to a block occupying about 10% of the page width and 20% of the page height, and has a popup on top of that section of the page. This is on a 1080p monitor, with browser fullscreened. I’m not even exaggerating about any of that.

The letter theoretically would have worked in my scenario, given it was a long commute that I traveled 5-6 times a week.

Interesting. I don’t think it would’ve gone that way for me, at least at the church where I first had that experience. The officer told me that he had been asked by the church to monitor their parking lot at night to make sure no one was using it outside of service times. It was one of those big churches with what…

I took the “just pull over and nap if you’re too sleepy” thing to heart as a teen, but it’s not that simple...at least not in my experience. For several years in my early twenties I moved back in with my parents to go back to college, but they had moved while I was away, and their house was an hour out from the city…

Now you’ve got me imagining an Adult Swim show called Odie Coyote, the County Bounty Hunter.

I don’t like it either but our realtor insisted we should do it when placing an offer on a house last month, and I feel like it did make a difference. We got the house under list in a market where houses are getting sold within a week in many cases. And in the case of this house, we actually had a genuine personal…

When I was taking college courses online I opted to get as many books as I could in a digital format to save money, and flipped one of my monitors sideways to have the book open for reference on one side while doing coursework or research on the other. It got the job done, but setting the zoom level to include the…

I was confused by this comment until I realized you were replying to Mephisto about the webcam orientation specifically. You’re right on that front. But depending on your needs, it could be fine. Teams and Zoom definitely include options to rotate the camera image input, and I suspect the same is true of any other…