Alyse, please be more constructive in the future.  Your voice influences others.  Call out bad players.  Hope for the best in people.  You aren't one voice in a long thread on a forum. You write articles for a major website. People read your stuff. People are shaped by what you ride. Measure up to that expectation…

Kudos to Lifehacker for encouraging their audience to be more patient.  Make the world a better place.  Start with the “man in the mirror”.  More pieces like this please.

This is the third time I am recommending Lifehacker at least signal the video format in the title and/or provide a transcript of the video below. No response. No change. I don’t think they give a crap.

What makes for an interesting reddit thread makes for (another) whiny Lifehacker article. 🙄 Consider articles that move your audience to be patient. I propose such a lifehack would lead to a happier practitioner.

I very intentionally tried to focus on important issues, especially regarding expressions of disagreement and descent. I did not get good results. I suspect that maybe children rise to the standards you set. My children did not appreciate the space I gave them. That was thier normal. They still resented whatever…

I paid for the desktop client years ago.  Now the change the terms of the license?  What would happen if renters could escape disagreeable terms so easily.  Previous desktop license users should be grandfathered in to a free subscription for life.best I can tell they have added no new features to the desktop nor would…

Virginia K. Smith polluted my Lifehacker RSS feed with this headline news. I subscribe to topical feeds for content specific to that content. I’m looking for content quality, not quantity. If I am interested in headline news, I’ve likely got a feed better suited than Lifehacker for it.

This is worth a footnote at the end of the article.  Emily, help protect Lifehackers privacy please.  Thanks!

On a related note: these sites let you opt out of many “interest based ads”. It is one site that sends your request to partnered servers. Those servers often go down, so revisit and repeat as needed. I think this is tied to cookies, so you I think you must repeat for all browsers you use and repeat when you reinstall…

You all pass around links to your busy/free calendars.  You toggle your friends calendars when you intend to schedule some fun.  You turn them off when they get in the way.  We do this with our family calendars (two young adults, two parents).

You can share the busy/free status of any Google calendar (and most calendar apps). Viewers with the URL can see when items are on the calendar, but not details. You can even add appointments to your calendar as “not busy”. All this is far easier and more powerful than creating another shared calendar to which…

Another tip related syncing communications with your spouse: Gmail ignores characters in an email address between ‘+’ and “@gmail.com”. Combine this feature with filters to create an address that automatically forwards to your spouse. Your spouse can compose emails using the alias as well.

Consider including a summary or transcription of video pieces--or signal that it is a video in the title.  I am interested in the content, but videos are too much hassle.

“Doing things differently” is not a virtie unto itself, hence the title of the article.

Between this and all the articles about how to treat the staff waiting on me, I feel the Lifehacker staff has grown intoa very high maintenance group. So many replies about the “job” of Twitter users and “if you don’t agree delete your account” lead me to think maybe some of you want a large mediated forum instead of a…

The headline looks great.  Wish I could read it.  Consider providing a summary or transcript of these videos.  I bookmark stuff here to read later but have no interest in watching videos.

It is ironic how high maintenance people in service industries are. So many Lifehacker articles about how to treat my waitress / barista / pizza delivery guy!

Tim, There are some helpful items on the list like starting with the drink size. The advice intended to spare me from my barusta’s judgement is offensive. Service is a skill. Maybe they need a new job.

My brother-in-law tells me folks bring their consoles into Gamestop when they buy new games.  The store gives a network connection to pull down the required patches because $/MB at home.

Beware Little Passports deceptive pricing. Near the end of the subscription process you will be introduced to a non-optional shipping fee. No pricing options here—just a portion of the mandatory cost that is not mentioned until you a nearly done with your order. Even if you choose to use the service, contact them and…