1+ week, 5+ day ago   (673+ words) My car has a lot of problems and needs some expensive repairs, but it still runs. Looking for advice on whether to fix it or replace it.I have a 2010 Camry (USA-based) with about 170k miles. It still runs, but it…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (404+ words) In the late summer of 2006, Apple and Facebook ran a Back to School promotion through a Facebook group called "Apple Students." Each week for about ten weeks (July 25 through September 30, 2006), members could request a redemption code by Facebook message and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (60+ words) How can I ship a sofa from one side of the country to the other? There's no particular rush, and I imagine there are companies that'll pick it up, store it somewhere while they're gathering a bunch of stuff to…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (226+ words) Good friend got laid off after 3 years as part of a well-known, global specialty product company's post-sales "white glove" purchaser feedback program. The department looks to be going the way of the dodo due to AI.Basically, she received contact…...

2+ week, 2+ 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…...

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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (313+ words) I am a volunteer at a non-profit. One of the biggest needs is a time-tabling tool for scheduling classes: assigned teacher, class, time and room, preferably free or for a very low fee. Currently this is done in Excel and…...

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…...

2+ week, 6+ day 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…...

3+ week, 13+ 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…...