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I'm looking for recommendations for a tool to monitor and limit my eight-year-old's electronics usage [more inside]
posted by NoneOfTheAbove at 7:50 PM - 2 answers

How to get Apple to forget a "relay" username/id? I accidentally created two accounts for an app. One uses my email address and one uses one of those Apple ID relay options where you choose that you don't want the developer to have your email address. All my data is in the real email. But when I sign in, it defaults to the empty relay one. How can I delete it?
posted by dobbs at 5:31 PM - 11 answers

My MacBook has started pinging when my iPhone gets a text. How do I stop it? I don't want them to be connected at all, I want texts to exist only on my phone. [more inside]
posted by vanilla.extract at 7:09 AM - 4 answers

Can I use GPL 2+ licensed software in an MIT-licensed project? [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha at 4:25 PM - 6 answers

I am looking to find a miracle app that can sort my random "things to remember" into nice, ordered and easy to find categories, with minimal effort. [more inside]
posted by sonofsnark at 3:59 PM - 9 answers

I use Safari on an old iPhone. The text on the Google website has suddenly shrunk. [more inside]
posted by lokta at 1:35 PM - 2 answers

I found my almost-8-year-old pouring over a book about minerals and asked what he was doing. He said that since I won't give him unlimited tablet time, he's going to build his own tablet, so he's learning how to do it. I think my response surprised him: "Great idea! Let's build a tablet!" Ok, so how do we build a tablet? [more inside]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 9:07 AM - 8 answers

Like many people I have two physical screens, and I’m becoming increasingly more keyboard oriented as I realise how much time and fiddliness a mouse involves. My system is Windows 10 22H2. One thing that really annoys me is that when toggling between open windows (Alt+tab+arrow keys) or creating a window (Window key E) is that I've found no way to move the new window to the other screen; I always have to use the mouse. [more inside]
posted by unearthed at 1:41 PM - 11 answers

I have acquired this precise ThinkPad directly from Lenovo.com. What is the latest and greatest in making sure there's no bloat and plenty of security? [more inside]
posted by kensington314 at 1:16 PM - 9 answers

I'm finding it surprisingly hard to identify an Android tablet that can power, via HDMI-to-USB, an external monitor. [more inside]
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:09 AM - 14 answers

I was working on a PowerPoint this morning. I saved it and closed it. When I re-opened it, every single image had been replaced by a blank rectangle with a red x in it and the words "This picture cannot be displayed." [more inside]
posted by tzikeh at 4:41 AM - 8 answers

Recently, I noticed that the little pie indicator for iCloud in my sidebar was sitting with a mere sliver for days on end. It claims to be uploading four files. I can't get it to either finish, or stop. Help. [more inside]
posted by Well I never at 10:52 PM - 3 answers

I am planning to delete my account. What is the difference between html and json formats? If I want to see my photos and captions later which will open better? [more inside]
posted by Lawn Beaver at 4:34 PM - 5 answers

Are there any good, effective ways to dodge YouTube's music copyright detection systems these days? I'm no robber baron--just a regular non-online-popular person who would like to soundtrack his bike-ride videos with cool music. Maybe even a whole song that would be the sonic bedrock for the video edit. A decade ago, I was able to slow a music track down by 10 percent, and that worked. No longer! For context, I'm nobody, and get fewer than 100 hits on my videos, so this doesn't need to be a bulletproof solution.
posted by flod at 1:56 AM - 14 answers

I work for a museum that has a well-known painting. An old, very bad image of the painting has been loose on the internet for a very long time, including as the reference image on wikipedia. How do I fix this? [more inside]
posted by PussKillian at 8:27 AM - 10 answers

Looking for early cgi animation of cars having sex? [more inside]
posted by varion at 10:37 AM - 3 answers

How do I Listen to a document in Word using Read Aloud but still be able to highlight sentences? [more inside]
posted by ljs30 at 9:48 AM - 1 answers

My mom passed away two years ago. She had a 23andMe account. I have her password, but 23andMe won't allow me to log in without updating it...via an email sent to her defunct email address...or a message sent to her defunct phone number. Is this a lost cause or is there some way for me to get in?
posted by rednikki at 2:04 PM - 9 answers

Does Kofi share email addresses of buyers with the store owner? (For the purpose of building an email list.) [more inside]
posted by run"monty at 2:59 AM - 0 answers

I need recommendations for apps/games for the Oculus Quest 2 that I can use with special education students aged 11 to 14. The apps need to be free and able to run without use of WiFi. I have successfully used Squirrel Day for the more high functioning students, but I have some others with limited motor skills who aren't able to use it. Any recommendations for an app that would give some kind of visual experience for these kiddos without requiring them to use the hand controllers?
posted by nestor_makhno at 6:32 PM - 2 answers