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Internet Connection Monitoring
2+ week, 19+ 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…...
When to quit a tech job in an uncertain, AI-centric future job market
2+ week, 3+ 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…...
Very basic day planner (NOT todo/proj mgmt) app for easily confused user
2+ week, 4+ day ago (128+ words) I'm looking for the digital equivalent of a day planner with a little space for notes at the bottom of the page, either for Mac or for iOS. Each page should have Events for the day, pulled from Google Calendar…...
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.
3+ week 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, 22+ 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…...
How do I change the default paper selection when printing on a canon?
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…...
Is it ok to change the country of my Google Voice linked number?
3+ week, 3+ 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…...
I created a Gmail three weeks ago. Google now says it doesn't exist.
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…...