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In Blue Sky, is it possible to create a List or a Feed from someone else's Starter Pack? [more inside]
posted by Winnie the Proust at 3:17 PM - 1 answers

I'm looking to play with the data from and put my own software on a smartwatch. I assume Android. [more inside]
posted by J.R. Hartley at 3:24 AM - 5 answers

So for reasons instead of locking the tablet I just blocked all the apps in family link, intending to unblock them at next screentime. Next screentime is about to start and the whole thing crashes HARD. Resulting in a factory reset of the device. So now I want to reinstall his apps, but the play store says "parents have blocked app". But if I go into family link to unblock the app I have no option to unblock it because "app is no longer installed on device." And of course I blocked ALL the apps and only successfully unlocked one before the crash so everything is gone and I have no idea how to recover it. HOPE me. [more inside]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 7:37 PM - 2 answers

Is there an un-bloated, user-friendly, admin-friendly online directory (that connects to a CRM}? [more inside]
posted by Mirth at 11:26 AM - 4 answers

Bought a laser cutter with a built in camera. Computer is 5 meters away, and camera while discovered shows no image. Support says 1.5 meter cable max. [more inside]
posted by J.R. Hartley at 10:54 AM - 9 answers

I am working with some people who are (ab)using ChatGPT because they think it makes their writing better, and they're using it for research as well. I want to show them lots of examples of AI being terrible at its ostensible job. [more inside]
posted by tzikeh at 8:01 AM - 65 answers

At wits end editing Canva audio track for presentation tomorrow morning! [more inside]
posted by latkes at 11:28 AM - 3 answers

Somehow a relative's dinky but long-lived family website has overtaken all the top results when you search for my name on Google. These results include pictures of me from my childhood that job recruiters and fellow professionals in my industry do not need to see. What steps do I need to take to get at least some of these things removed? I also need to figure out why my website, which used to be the first result when you searched for me, has been completely scrubbed from Google.
posted by The Adventure Begins at 9:03 AM - 9 answers

What desktop app, phone app, or website do you wish existed? [more inside]
posted by Number Used Once at 8:35 AM - 31 answers

My website is down. I am not technically savvy. I have relied in years past on my website developer. I believe he has Alzheimer's based on recent repeated chats and how he keeps asking questions I just finished answering. I've given up on trying to get through to him. [more inside]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 12:15 PM - 11 answers

While https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp is a well organized database for recent Japan patents, I am searching for several patents from the 1930's. This article details a method to determine the year from a patent number, but then falls back to snail-mail enquiries for more info. Does anyone know of a more recent online resource for older Japan patents?
posted by fairmettle at 9:28 PM - 0 answers

A project I worked on is getting some online press. What's the best way to save it? [more inside]
posted by nouvelle-personne at 3:17 PM - 13 answers

Pretty much the title. My workplace changed to a different instance of our platform, and Chrome keeps opening the old one and I can't access student records. I don't want to clear ALL of my cache - just the work stuff. 2023 Macbook Pro M2. [more inside]
posted by tzikeh at 12:05 PM - 13 answers

I updated my Mac laptop to Sequoia and now Books will not recognize epubs unless I restart. Then after a while it stops recognizing them. I hate this. [more inside]
posted by Frowner at 11:08 AM - 6 answers

Hey, remember me and the shark game...I've kept at it on and off... I want to do the lots of everything thing again. This time I want to get up to a high climate level first. To do this, I want to just click through worlds to get to a high climate level. Can I use some sort of auto-clicker or program something simple myself to do this? So you don't need to know the shark game: THe question is, how do I get my computer to read the screen and repetitively click the right thing. [more inside]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 9:01 AM - 11 answers

I see that you have to have 500 edits with 10 edits within the last thirty days to access the Wikipedia Library, but then how long does access last?
posted by memoryindustries at 6:45 AM - 2 answers

I'd like to learn how to design in Fusion 360 (or similar) for 3D printing. I find my learning style doesn't mesh well with typical step-by-step guided tutorials. Are there any alternatives? [more inside]
posted by aeighty at 11:02 AM - 6 answers

Hello. I find I have a very important message to get out to the world that is highly time sensitive and am unsure if I ought to start brand new accounts for this purpose or just convert my existing personal accounts into these more professional, purpose driven ones. [more inside]
posted by doasought at 1:38 PM - 4 answers

I have a large - but not insanely large - Word file: 4,000 pages, 110 MB. Microsoft Word is glacially slow, barely usable when I'm working with this file. Could you recommend a word processor for Windows, preferably free, that could handle this large file better? [more inside]
posted by Termite at 4:44 AM - 13 answers

I've stumbled across LibreTexts.Math, and it could be useful to me, but I don't see how to access it in an organized way. How would I go about getting it to appear like a regular eBook?
posted by SemiSalt at 6:53 PM - 5 answers