If you use a phone, tablet or Switch in bed, I highly recommend one of those bendable arms that attaches to a headboard or side table. They seem ridiculous in concept but are very convenient. I use one to keep a sports game on a tablet while we’re watching a show together on the TV and my wife uses one to hold her…

I’m glad to see the comments resolution wasn’t to ditch them entirely. So many sites delegate comments to social media or a rarely visited “forums” page all in the BS name of “valuing your feedback.” So many sites I used to frequent daily have fallen away completely due to the inability to react and engage directly…

I never understood the “doors are open” defense to positions of a church. Um, no shit? The doors are open to atheists too. That doesn’t mean they’re accepted as they are and won’t be pushed to repent from their sins as soon as they’re inside.

It makes sense they want telemetry data but it’s still a garbage explanation. Developers often use the excuse that people are largely all online anyway but that just means they would’ve gotten the data they wanted regardless. Telemetry is not a valid explanation as to why the connection was required in the first place…

I saw someone point out on Twitter that the fact people rather play the old game, microtransactions be damned, should be a flag to Rovio as to how little they’ve done with their new titles to spur interest in them. Monetization is one thing, but they should’ve evolved enough at this point that people should be more…

I’d rather brutal truths than PR spin. I hate when companies spin obvious financial moves as being done for the consumers’ best interest.

That’s one of the great things about a physical security key. The accounts are stored on the key itself (at least on mine which is a YubiKey) and so if I switch devices or format, I don’t need to do anything. All the accounts come right back up when I scan the key.

Same. I was a third key a little over a decade ago and made in the mid-$9.

I worked at GameStop for five years in the later aughts. While it wasn’t yet as bad as it is now, it was still pretty crappy then. I stayed due to my love of video games, great coworkers and regulars, and my life situation not yet requiring higher pay. With that said, as awesome as the store was, the company was…

This is always the first thing I do once I get through setup. The UI feels slow as molasses without it.

The way I see it is the more a company goes out of their way to prevent you from leaving, the more aware they are of the bad value of their service. A company that provides a good product/service for a fair price doesn’t need cheap tactics to prevent customer loss.

There are a few Switch games as well that feel this way due to being ported over from mobile.

I decided long ago that in the mobile realm, any game that decides it’s time for me to stop playing knows better than I do and I stop playing it. Energy bars are a joke and makes an app an instant uninstall.

Very well may be but that doesn’t mean it lacks truth for some people. I know because it’s applied to my wife. She’s at a big nationwide company that has gone through multiple waves of layoffs but they’re looking to make the biggest impact to the books so they’ve been going after redundant managers and members of…

I’ve learned through my wife that not being important enough to the company to register on their radar helps save you from layoffs. This can sometimes be risky since you’d think they’d cut the least important first but not always. Sometimes they care more about cutting the big finish that have a bigger impact on…

There’s a shirt I like that’s red and has the phrase on it: Like a good neighbor, stay over there.

Ha, no, she did play the song though. But then a bunch of students threw gummy penises at the DJ hosting the event resulting in the school banning concerts for a few years.

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Fun fact: She played a concert at my high school along with O-Town due to winning a radio contest.

Running Pi-hole on a computer on your network can also block the ads on the homescreen and screensavers. I prefer the empty boxes and Roku logo.

Yes, but this site often takes it to the extent of chucking out the red pen entirely because anything that’d be marked by a teacher is just new usage that’s yet to catch on. Perhaps loose/lose and your/you’re are simply the next literally/figuratively.