I once knew someone who not only kept the extra toilet paper in a hall closet across the house, but often had less of a quarter of a roll in the guest bathroom dispenser when people visit. I am not usually one of those people who is shy about admitting to the fact that I use the bathroom, but in that case, I worked…

For that matter, I don’t let my PC download/install windows updates without my permission. How often do you hear of non-beta, full production windows updates roll out that brick computers or otherwise render them unusable? Keeping a strong firewall and good computer practices mitigate almost all security…

For what it’s worth, a good router usually has pretty solid QoS built in to prioritize certain services and throttle things accordingly. Also, they tend to be faster, more reliable, and more energy efficient (sometimes) than the routers that ISPs tend to hand out. Brighthouse in my area seems to be handing out these…

While I don’t play EVE, I agree wholeheartedly. This is why the most heavily armored, armed, and most veteran/skilled warriors stayed with the king/general back in the day. You want to keep people from killing your general? Well, you’d best employ methodology to keep him safe. Tons of things have been done over the…

Eh, I’m more interested in it to filter out content that’s annoying to me. For example, every time my niece is over she tries to watch the emoji movie.

Yeah, I don’t understand how going to Ikea is any kind of major stressor in a relationship... if you can break up over a trip to a store, then maybe the relationship wasn’t particularly sound to begin with.

I have a set of three el cheapo Ikea bookshelves loaded up with actual books and they have not shown a tiny bit of sagging even after 7 years that I’ve had them.

They’re taking hints from the smartphone makers.
User: “The battery lasts for 45 seconds...”
Manufacturer: “but it charges SO FAST!”

Odd, I wonder if this is rolling out in stages. I’m not seeing the option to restrict specific titles anywhere.

Seriously. Paper is recycleable for one, and paper products are mostly grown on sustainable tree farms. No one is cutting down rainforests for TP.

I’ll just add that besides casting music, none of this works if you have Android TV. Now the silly part: it used to. These days, though, you get “Alright, X from Y. Playing on Android TV. Sorry, I can’t do that on an Android TV yet, try using your Android TV remote instead.” even though it’s a perfectly standard…

Yes, I totally agree. Yes, my wife comes first! Yet, at the same time, she has always loved me enough to respect my desire to veg out with a fun game, and I respect her enough that when she communicates that she’d like her husband for right now we communicate - “I’m trying to finish x which will take x minutes, is…

There are a couple of things to unpack here, even though it’s a lighthearted post, the pic of the girls with a petition to end Fortnite irritated me. First... a text message is asynchronous communication. Why on earth are you expecting an immediate reply? Yeah, sometimes you get that, but I’ve got a life to live.…

I could very well be remembering it wrong - could have easily been something like X pages per student per year or something like that, but I do remember that the limit was absurdly low.

There really is something about a virtual backrub that makes it just exponentially more creepy. Like, is this guy picturing my body parts in his fridge creepy.

Yep, but in reality I might have the tv or music going because the background noise helps me concentrate (my mind wanders more easily in a quiet environment.) Or maybe I just had a stressful meeting and I want to spend my lunch break figuring out that one puzzle in Breath of the Wild. Just because I got up to use the…

“Oh, you want me to stop hitting you in the face with this 2x4? I recall telling you not to touch me. I’ll give you the same respect you did me.”

I work in IT myself and have for many years now, and personally I find it bizarre that anyone has to be told not to give hugs or backrubs to people at work. I mean, seriously, the most physical contact I’ve had with any coworker of any gender is a handshake (and on rare occasions, a slap on the back from my boss). I…

No kidding, a teacher friend of mine once related that she’s allowed to print /copy something like 17 pages per school year. Anything more than that has to come out of her own pocket.

WOW that’s bad. They could have recycled assets from Snake Eater with better results than that!