You don’t use duck fat on your hands?

Eat at home, and use the savings to buy higher-quality ingredients that you can enjoy in moderation.

Watch for a 6% price hike at Whole Foods.

What I hate most is that arrogant Apple doesn’t let me have as much control as I want and deserve in the products I’ve paid for. I’m especially bitter about their taking away Finder Labels after Mountain Lion and user expandability in Mac minis. Those may sound like minor things to some, but they’ve had a major impact…

Or Hawaiian manapua of the sort Island Manapua Factory 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 to make.

I tried attaching a photo of it (using the “upload from your computer”) function, but it apparently didn’t work. Is that because I’m still a ghost commenter here? (And, may I be promoted to the land of the living?)

This morning my wife & I went to our favorite dim sum restaurant (which was, of course, packed to the gills because of Spring Festival), and I was looking forward my favorite item, wu gok. The only version on the carts was very different from the one in your photo. It still had the familiar taro paste on the inside,…

Claire, I know you live (and might die) by duck fat. I like it too, but am afraid to buy it pre-rendered because I’m suspicious that it may have been cut with something less desirable. Do you buy something branded and, if so, could you tell us which brand?

Adding a second monitor to my mom’s PC was a serious mistake. It thoroughly confuses her, and results in lots of tech support time from me. Her most frequent problem is that she double-clicks a filename in MS Word’s Open list and freaks out when nothing happens because the file window is already open on the monitor…

An “active” USB extension cable costs only a few bucks more than an ordinary one, and lets you reliably extend FAR longer than the nominal 15-foot limit. They can be connected in series, and you can use any ol’ cable at the device end to match what you’re plugging into. USB-C active extensions cost a bit more than the…

Has the Echo Show been “refurbished” to work with YouTube?

Has the Echo Show been “refurbished” to work with YouTube?

I before E except after C

I feel for Maggie Hoffman’s liver.

You don’t own a vehicle?

Costco’s Kirkland lite beer is my go-to for guzzling and most cooking, and can also be used for cleaning gunk off your windshield. A 48 (not 32)-can case is about $23. It was recently reformulated to be “liter”, so if you tried it before and didn’t like it, I’d suggest trying again. The old version came in a black…

Something from Costco that I’d normally skip for being too expensive (fortunately, my Katie is a practical sort :-).

Thanks, but I’m still hoping to find a way to make VLC work as I’d like it to. It’s just so deliciously techie. :-)

Recently bought into the TiVo ecosystem because I didn’t want to keep paying for my Verizon FiOS DVR service. Big mistake!! With TiVo you buy and buy and buy and in the end just have a really crappy user interface, erratic streaming between devices, missing program data, account authentication issues, and all these…

Freezing during playback (player issue, not server). Player is on latest-model Nvidia Shield with most-recent software (a mistake, maybe). Have to set the playback specs really low (lower than the source files) to keep it working at all.

I didn’t try updating from within the app, but downloaded VLC 3.0.0 for macOS here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html