We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown in France this summer and it was kind of mind-boggling to me how most of the homes had no air conditioning but also no screens on the windows to keep bugs out.

Can you have your job pay for an iPhone while you have a different personal phone? I’m a big fan of keeping a work device that’s separate from a personal device.

What’s the vinegar trick?

I almost never had a table stack their stuff the way I wanted. Just make sure your spot is tidy, easy to grab, and there are no surprises like silverware or a tiny dish wrapped inside a napkin. Definitely don’t stick a paper napkin inside your cup that still has a drink in it. By the time it gets back to the dish station it will have turned into a paste someone has to dig out and will be cursing you!

No, I think that was always pretty obvious. There are other times (like this with Cracker Barrel) where it’s more up for debate

Cleaner, not cheaper. Waffle House has always been cheaper. If you’re on a road trip with kids it’s nicer to feel reasonably confident you’re taking them into clean restrooms.

Upvoting for awareness, not because I’m happy about it

People have been suggesting this as a strategy at least since New Coke debuted. We can’t always definitively say that was actually the plan, but sometimes we can like with IHOP.

Cracker Barrel was usually cleaner than Waffle House, though, if that’s important to you while on road trips

While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.

They have images in the link. They sure don’t look like actual phones. I hope more information comes out about what was being used and where they were sourced. Were they devices that have a legitimate use as well or something more custom for nefarious purposes? They don’t look like they take a lot of room, so this might not be the last time we hear of something using this or similar equipment. Doesn’t seem like it would be hard to put these all over the world.

There are images in the link; they’re not actual phones.

“Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”

Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. *chef’s kiss*

To me that’s an astonishingly low price for what it offers at those screen sizes. I can think of some high end professional monitors at the same sizes that cost more simply for high-fidelity color rendition!

Pre-orders for the largest screen come with a 16-inch model at no additional cost. All variants display images in 9:16 portrait orientation only.

I guess they might be usable for only this purpose, so perhaps somewhat limiting, but for anyone who can use this it sounds like a phenomenal price. I would not be surprised to even see this used at amusement parks.

I remember when one of the Guitar Hero games was first released for Xbox, they soon had a big problem where lots of guitar peripherals were behaving strangely. I think in the end the whammy bar wasn’t always going to what the sensor read as 100 or 0 or something like that because of weak springs or poor physical fit with the plastic, and in the end the fix was basically to adjust how the values were read in software.

(Highly exaggerated)

I thought Misskey and its forks already supported quote posts?

That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!

I don’t know why Facebook puts so much junk in the links, but there’s a setting for Safari to remove that automatically.

It might be related to the setting to remove tracking information from shared links? I’ve appreciated not having to manually take that crap off.