It’s possible, and maybe even has happened. As with any technology, no matter how helpful it is, someone will find a nefarious use for it.

I haven’t tried in several years. But when we first moved here, for anyone wanting to come by (friends or family or something being delivered), street view was completely useless. Directions worked fine, after we lived here about two years. Prior to that, Google Maps tended to direct people to another section of our…

Yep! We bought a house in September 2009 that was built in January 2008. There’s a house 9 houses west of us on the other side of the street that was blurred already when we bought the house. It was built before our house, and Google froze the street view at the time of the blurring, for anywhere within sight of that…

Also, if you look carefully into other fatal things, exposure to solid, liquid, or gaseous Dihydrogen Monoxide, is far more deadlier per year and per capita than Corona could ever dream of and it’s used in many industries and manufacturing as well.

I’ve had a few “pending approval” replies to this regarding my statement that “those with student loan debt are more in need than those without, generally” and I want to clarify that what I meant, and didn’t spell out specifically, is that those with student debt HAVE MORE DEBT than those without, and are more in…

Critics of blanket debt relief say that it’s unfair to people who don’t go to college...

I would think just having two paper grocery bags on hand to deal with the glass would be better than keeping something around that probably still has some residue of sugar in it, which may attract ants. I get that it’s a good idea for protection from the sharp glass, but grocery bags are thicker than sugar bags, and…

Just curious, when you’re through using your plates, bowls, and silverware, do you just rinse them off and put them back in the cupboard or drawer, or do you wash them with soap?

I didn’t see mentioned the iPhone SE 2020, which uses the same procedure as the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, pushing the up and then down volume buttons and then holding the lock/power button on the side. Note: you have to hold the button for a long time, 8-10 seconds, which feels like it’s not doing anything, until it does.

I’ve mentioned this before but the best way I know to get what I want from Twitter (chronological feed, all tweets, no ads) is to make a list of those I want to follow that way. I only follow 24 people so it’s easier, but making a private list means that (1) nobody can block my list for not wanting to be on it, since…

Six weeks later and it’s still not corrected. 

In today’s world, it is assumed everyone has typing skills and that spellcheck will catch any errors, yet attention to detail is a desired skill. Proofreading and knowing the fundamentals (this includes proofreading a spellchecked document) is necessary in the business world to not experience embarrassing errors.

The only casualties I heard of were two unarmed females, one of which was shot by police (presumably for being too scary while unarmed). I could go on and on, but the political left has reset the bar for what constitutes “peaceful protesting” (as described by the media with a business fully engulfed in flames in the…

Nah, I’d recommend first going through your apps and doing a spring-cleaning; get rid of everything you don’t use at all...

Back in August, I posted the following on the article “Dim Tweets You’ve Already Seen” (https://lifehacker.com/1844886174). That was in response to the algorithm that doesn’t show you tweets in chronological order, but I think it would work here as well.

none come close to the ease and efficacy of using soup containers (not deli containers, which are similarly shaped but flimsy—soup containers will look slightly more opaque).

A squirt of lemon juice, a bit of baking soda, scrub the resulting paste with a brush, then rinse and run through the dishwasher.

We got a lot of kids driven in from other neighborhoods. In years past, I would sit on the couch near the front door and read a book, just getting up whenever the doorbell rang, and someone else (usually my adult son) would cover for me when I ate dinner. It would start around 5pm with the really young kids,…

Yeah, this is my concern. We get around 400 kids every year, for about three hours total, and we usually set up our Ring doorbell with Halloween sounds and put the chime speaker where they can hear it at the front door. I’m not inclined to sit outside that whole time, and I’m not good at crafts to the point of…

For those that follow tens or hundreds of accounts on Twitter, this will be daunting, but one way to combat Twitter’s “I know better than you what you want to see” really stupid algorithm is to create a private list. For everyone I follow (which is currently under 40 accounts), I add them to a private list. You can…