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    printer I won't hate?

    My Epson Workforce WF-3520 has died after ten years of steady service. Researching a replacement has been unexpectedly challenging. A friend recommended the HP9015e (the Wirecutter does too), but the reviews I've seen online say that HP has gone downhill in a big way in recent years. A Reddit...
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    App for iOS screen mirroring to Roku?

    Our TV is a few years old and we can't cast to it. I recently found out that we can cast to our Roku player instead, though. There are a lot of apps that do this for iOS (which is what we've got); the most widely used, seemingly, is AirBeamTV's...
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    Unlock inherited iPhone 6?

    So my dad died in Boston about 18 months ago. Hadn't lost a parent before, and it was fairly shattering. Only recently were my brother and I ready to go through my dad's stuff. Among the things I ended up with was his iPhone 6, which my wife and I figured we'd give to our daughter. The phone...
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    The greatest two-way player ever?

    Until I stumbled onto his page at baseball-reference, I'd never heard of Bullet Rogan, a Negro League superstar and Hall of Famer, and I wondered how many people here are familiar with his fairly mind-blowing career. From his HOF plaque (I love the quote from Rogan's son): Many credit Rogan...
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    Hardshell case for teenager's Macbook Air?

    We're buying a refurbished 13-inch Macbook Air for our daughter, who's sixteen. She's about as conscientious as any other teenager, which is to say not very, so she's definitely going to drop the computer multiple times. We want to buy a rugged case for it--the closest equivalent we can find to...
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    Rosenthal: Mookie and LAD in agreement: 12/$365

    View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1285963112739491840
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    Apps for controlling wifi...?

    We currently control our kids' access to wifi using our cable company's ZyXEL router. The router allows you to schedule blocks of time in 30-minute increments during which your kids can use the house wifi. It's an annoyingly slow, unwieldy, and primitive interface. You have to click through...
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    Out Out, Brief Panda: Pablo To Have Shoulder Surgery

    The broken, disastrous marriage between Pablo Sandoval and the Boston Red Sox, an ill-fated union exceeded in its dysfunction only by a Kardashian coupling, could be nearing its end. Here’s how ugly it has gotten, major league sources told Yahoo Sports: Sandoval wants to stay in Boston only if...
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    Site error messages?

    For a while now, whenever I've clicked onto the site, a bunch of error messages have appeared first, followed a few seconds later by the site itself. Today the site has been hanging indefinitely on those error messages. Is there some setting I should change on my computer? I'm using a MacBook...
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    Flash drive and HDTV

    I want to buy a flash drive, load it with some movies, and give it to my wife's mother so she can watch them on her HDTV. The drive I have in mind is a Kingston 3.0 32 gig model. I phoned the company to confirm that the drive would play movies back smoothly and was told that there are too many...
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    movies on Sony HDTV: .srt Subtitles and "format not supported"

    Just bought a new Sony flatscreen, which I'm loving, but I've found that when I load foreign-language films (in various formats--avi, mp4, mkv) directly from my hard drive the TV won't read .srt subtitle files. What I get instead is either nothing or an assortment of small squares filled with...
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    Router question: TP-Link Archer C7

    The Wirecutter, CNET and TechRadar all seem to love this router, which has both AC and N capability. The consensus seems to be that it's a versatile and powerful piece of equipment for the money. For what it's worth, a not insignificant number of Amazon customers disagree. Some gripe about a...
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    Recording Calls on New Skype

    Skype has just made a fundamental change to its underlying code, if I understand correctly--it has "changed its desktop API"--and as a result it's no longer compatible with the third-party call-recording application I've been using, Ecamm's Call Recorder. I'm on a Mac and I'm looking desperately...
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