Jerry Kindall

eero is arguably the simplest mesh network, it kinda just works, but if you didn't want to shell out for one, TP-Link Deco is a lot more affordable, works well, and offers features you might like to have. FIN

a client will hold onto an extender until it simply can't anymore, and only then look for another access point. this is fine for clients that don't move around much but not great for phones, tablets, and laptops. 2/

an extender generally isn't going to work as well as a mesh network like eero. a mesh network knows which node has the best connection to each client and will switch nodes automatically as you move a device around. an extender doesn't coordinate with the main router and can't do this. 1/

Pixel 7 has Digital Wellbeing built in already, what does it not do that Charlene needs it to do?

be thankful they're wearing undies

My late father swore he'd never buy a car from a local (Columbus, Ohio) dealer who continually shook his head like this. "How can you trust a word he's saying when his head is denying it?" is something resembling what he might have said, perhaps

The perils of forgetting Poland.

Wikipedia should publish this going forward

offstage, Philip Glass is laughing. He already has your money

the best they can come up with for a tagline is "A New Film"? hah.

try to guess how much I care what these fucknozzles think of my intelligence

at least they feel like they still have to go through the motions of justice instead of just throwing people into the gulag. so we've got that going for us, which is nice

Stalin is the name of the car, because it's always stallin'. You're still right to be concerned, but more because you will likely be delayed than because you will be exterminated

"up to"

Free lunch, doubly so

nobody Peter Gabriels a track like Peter Gabriel

"the gas leak years" (with apologies to Dan Harmon)

A while ago they built an apartment building in downtown Bellevue, Washington (a Seattle burb) with a Safeway on the bottom. It's been very successful. I think it'd be convenient AF to live in a place like that, but I expect you'll find a lot of people shopping in their pajamas in there...

"But if you quit your job, you won't be able to pay your bills!"

"Dude, I ALREADY can't pay my bills."

This is fundamentally the same thing as programming, except you need to learn a lot less about how to phrase things so the computer understands them.

if you had written that piece in 2025, I suspect you might have compared "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" to AI slop. A pastiche of the band's previous work generated by a computerized blender.

Is there such a thing as "human slop"?

regardless of whether the cat's winter coat is triggered by shortening days or falling temperatures, those cues are the same regardless of the hemisphere it's in. the cat's winter coat will grow in as expected.

Most likely they already have that information on people who live here.

I've seen that a lot on Amazon, even on other products. Sometimes just changing the color or the size changes the price. I think usually that's because whoever the cheapest seller of those things is, is out of stock on that variant of the product and you're getting a different seller's price.

Future historians may refer to 2024-2027 as the "gas leak years."

All this change achieves is to undermine the CDC as a legitimate healthcare authority. Doctors won't magically stop vaccinating children; they'll follow some other organization's guidelines. Perhaps the American Medical Association could step up if we insist on the authority being American.

junk mail is actually what makes the most money for the USPS. it pays for itself and then some. it's cheap to deliver because it comes pre-sorted from the sender.

the $30 is to make sure everyone in the country can send and receive mail. yeah, I'll pay that.

Nonviolent resistance can work when it is backed by a credible threat of imminent violent resistance supposing the opposition rejects the nonviolent path. We don't have that credible threat... yet.

My wife made cookies to send out to friends and family for Thanksgiving. Two varieties were cornbread-based: one honey cornbread, the other a savory elote. One sweet, one not. Both went over well with the recipients.

Wait. I understand why it shows the image flipped while you're taking a selfie, but are you telling me it saves the final photo that way, too? That's... dumb. Everything in the shot's going to come out backward!