How do you keep track of what device works with what kind of command? For example, I can open the google home app on my iphone and start google music casting to my Sony TV which has android tv/chromecast emulation built in, and it will power on the TV and start the app playing the selected music. But I can’t ask…

Not like I’ve been all over Europe or anything, but at the few restaurants where I went with a group, the waitresses wrote out checks grouped by couples the way we wanted after the fact on a pad of paper at the table and did the math themselves. Is that because their schools are better? 

Can you cast videos - or even youtube to a chromecast device with firefox?

Just tell siri to add things to your shopping list as you think of them. If you share the list from the reminders app you can both see what’s there.

What’s the deal with instagram posts to facebook? I liked a picture someone posted a while ago and now every new picture they add says I liked it before I’ve even seen it.

Yeah, but it is computer-controlled spinning to maximize the traction at all 4 wheels.

Do all the people who met at work and got married have to divorce now that it is illegal to tell anyone you work with that they are attractive?

It’s a pretty safe bet that most people reading the article have overdone it - probably multiple times. But it does miss the real problem where people are just slow at learning that if three drinks make you feel good, six aren’t going to make you feel twice as good.

Hasn’t everyone here had devices that badly malfunction, died in an unexpected way, or had Google abandon the service that made them useful? Having some such device that can kill people seems, ummm, unwise...

Yet another article to remind me why normal people should never read jalopnik.

Remove the parts of your story that don’t also apply to making your phone a stupid, useless thing to carry around and you have no story left.

I always loved the starkly streamlined, rounded look of my 1993 Toyota Previa van and its vast amount of glass and interior room. My dream car would keep that shape but put the weight a bit lower for better handling.

If it costs insurance companies more to not provide birth control (and there are obvious reasons why it would), why don’t they just make the companies that are against providing it pay extra? Maybe they really aren’t against it that much...

I wonder if anyone has graphed soy product consumption against birth rates in Japan.

How about the more-needed article on how to use any of the common contact manager tools to deal with ‘family’ addresses instead of individuals as you need for your holiday card labels? Or how to use any of those tools to print said envelopes or labels?

Well, yeah. Make them weak and drink a lot of them. Orange juice is good for you. Or cranberry juice, but that always reminds me of a line from The Departed.

Kinda like calling gun deaths “accidents”.

Is there any variety of scotch that doesn’t taste like it had a burnt dishrag soaking in it?

Vodka mixed with any kind of juice tastes pretty much like the juice alone. You must like some kind of juice. Rum and coke is a little better than coke alone. Whisky and 7-up is a category by itself.

Taking a stand for racism and social inequality? I guess he needs to do something or he wouldn’t keep any voters.