2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (167+ words) I feel like my home internet is randomly dropping but I can't prove it because I don't know how. Sometimes it seems to be out for just a few seconds and sometimes it's a minute or even a lot longer…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (500+ words) Frontend staff engineer, about 20 years in. Since 2023 I've been at three "AI native" startups, and every one has had some mix of toxicity, chaos, and leadership that doesn't really know how to run projects. I'm burning out at the current…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (181+ words) Is there a word that describes the phenomenon of people shutting down (or lashing out) in response to a repeated request that they've learned to ignore? Mark Twain writes about this in his short story, The Facts Concerning the Recent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (313+ words) I am a volunteer at a non-profit. One of the biggest needs is a time-tabling tool for scheduling classes: assigned teacher, class, time and room, preferably free or for a very low fee. Currently this is done in Excel and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (438+ words) A corporate landlord bought the house next door and is trying to divide the lot. During the process, their surveyor found that about a foot of what we've always considered our property, running the length of our fence, is technically…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (148+ words) Earlier this year, I set my iPhone to delete texts older than one year to free up space. I saved my older texts as a chat.db file (I think through Time Machine?) since I thought I might need to…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (147+ words) How do I change the default paper selection when printing on a canon printer? It has paper ready to go, but always gives an error first and makes me select which paper to use.I print from a Canon g3070. I…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (63+ words) I used to be part of a number of online writers' groups & forums for both writing craft and trad & self publishing advice. None of those exist anymore. Where do you find writing advice and camaraderie these days?I'm particularly interested…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (95+ words) Three weeks ago, I created a Gmail account for an improv team. I used that account to create Instagram and TikTok accounts. Today, I tried logging back into the account and Google said it didn't exist. I tried creating a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (87+ words) What are the common, robust (I realize these may be different) platforms for text-based communication these days? I am specifically looking for something I can use on my laptop (windows/linux/browser-based) but that also have phone apps. I've been…...