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.

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.

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.…

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…

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

Heh, I don’t even live in the suburbs, but in a moderately sized city - without Uber Eats my delivery options for food are Papa Johns or Dominos. No other options. And a walk to pick up food? Unless I want to walk 4-5 miles to pick up dinner, that’s not an option unless you want fast food (NO). This guy seems to think…

Hugely trustworthy. The most trustworthy ever. People are saying just how trustworthy it is.

I don’t own a Chinese phone, but I will say this about them vs. “American” phones like Samsung and Apple *cough*.... At least they believe in batteries. Further, unless you’re using a Pixel phone, you’re going to have a phone with a skinned version of Android that’s very behind on updates.
As for accessories, venturing…

Totally stole my comment, good work.

I loved Yakuza 0 - my first time playing the game, but I’m hoping that there’s more things translated into English somehow. I don’t mind subtitles and I enjoy the Japanese voices, but I felt like I was missing out on large parts of the game because I couldn’t understand the pedestrians on the street and stuff.

Same here. Siri with it’s snippy responses and such would drive me up the wall.

Funny, I turned mine off immediately because I hated, hated saying “Hey Cortana” over “xbox”. I find that it’s easily the most awkward assistant name I’ve tried to use, even worse than hey Google (although ok Google is almost as bad).