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Why might my political spam text be addressed to another person? | Ask MetaFilter
1+ week, 5+ day ago (102+ words) Let's say I'm Alice, and I have a family member Julia. Julia and I used to live at the same address, but not for 15 years. Both Julia and I have the others' contact saved in our cell phone contacts, but…...
Help me recover a lost 25-song iTunes playlist from 2006
1+ week, 5+ day ago (404+ words) In the late summer of 2006, Apple and Facebook ran a Back to School promotion through a Facebook group called "Apple Students." Each week for about ten weeks (July 25 through September 30, 2006), members could request a redemption code by Facebook message and…...
printer that can handle 5x8 cardstock - Chicago
2+ week, 2+ day ago (85+ words) I have asked FedEx, Staples, and some local print shops if I could bring in my blank thank-you cards to print messages on them, and all have said the smallest they can handle is 8.5x11.I just need to print basic…...
KitchenAid mixer at 60% discount?!??
2+ week, 2+ day ago (86+ words) I came across a sealed-box 2023 KitchenAid KSM150PS mixer on clearance at Kroger for $185. It looks like a good deal since they are $465 at Amazon. Is this as good a deal as it seems to be? What am I missing if anything?...
When to quit a tech job in an uncertain, AI-centric future job market
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…...
Brother 2370 perplexing problem.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (152+ words) My Brother 2370 printer won't print, showing ""Cannot detect. Put the toner cartridge back in."Of course, taking the cartridge out and putting it back in doesn't solve the problem... So off to the internet for some suggestions, all of these…...
Reddit question Reddit can't answer.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (125+ words) .I have a reddit problem that no one on reddit has been able to solve so I decided to come to the real source of all wisdom: Ask Metafilter. I've been on Reddit for many years. Suddenly, when I log…...
Aye, I do not want this.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (62+ words) Google has become trash, but is there a search engine that doesn't show me ai slop results. I don't just want to lose the ai moron summary, I don't want to be shown links to ai slop sites. Is there…...
Recovering texts from chat.db file
3+ week, 4+ 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…...
Is it ok to change the country of my Google Voice linked number?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (156+ words) I set up google voice for my number ages ago. When I moved to the UK, I got a skype number and set that as my linked number for google voice. Skype no longer exists. Google is getting increasingly persistent…...