January 17, 2020
I Want to Upgrade Windows 7, but I'm Scared to Lose My Programs
Everyone’s talking about Windows 7 this week. And even if you have absolutely no interest in the inner workings of your PC’s operating system, your attention has no doubt been drawn by Microsoft’s twist: The company isn’t supporting Windows 7 with security updates anymore.
School Days
Get Your Kid Talking About Their Day With This Question
It’s the refrain heard round the world every afternoon or early evening. Parents everywhere are asking, “How was school?” And their children are responding, “Fine,” much more concerned with procuring a snack and a good TV show than chatting about their day.
Tiny Hacks
The Best Pan Sauce Is Mostly Butter
One can get finicky with pan sauces. (I, for one, am guilty of this.) Various thickening agents, aromatics, and even cream all bring certain charms to the pan, but my favorite (and incidentally easiest) pan sauce to make is mostly butter.
Travel
The Best and Worst Airlines in 2019, Ranked
This morning, the Wall Street Journal released its annual ranking of major U.S. airlines, basing its decision on factors like the number of on-time arrivals, canceled flights, and delays (and using 2019 flight data, available from the Department of Transportation). Somehow, ranking below even low cost-carriers like Frontier and Spirit,...
Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend
Netflix must figure we’re all out watching Oscar contenders in the theater; why else would they leave us with so few decent streamables with which to fill our long weekend? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. Here are Lifehacker’s choices for what to stream on Netflix each day of your minibreak.
Lifehacker Originals
How to Get Through a Panic Attack
Panic attacks can be scary, especially in the moment that you realize that you’re having one and that it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The good news is that a panic attack will pass. You just have to ride out these next few minutes.
Travel
What's the Best Way to Sleep on a Flight?
Over for the Washington Post, writer Natalie B. Compton described, in detail, why exactly sleeping on flights is so damn difficult. Perhaps it’s being surrounded by sneezing, coughing, and otherwise restless passengers around you that makes it hard to sleep soundly. Or, as Compton writes, it’s just the harsh environment...
Tech Essentials
How to Troubleshoot Bluetooth Connection Issues
Bluetooth technology has been allowing our electronic devices to communicate with each other for 20 years now. Yet, Bluetooth connections between devices can still fail, or give you all kinds of issues when you’re trying to set them up. Here are some troubleshooting techniques to try when pairing Bluetooth-enabled devices...
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Kotaku
Man "Hijacks" Airport Monitor To Play PS4 Game
A “young man” waiting at Portland International earlier today, perhaps bored as we all are by the drudgery of airports, figured he could just unpack his PS4 console, plug it into an airport information monitor and start playing some Apex Legends right there on the spot.
Jalopnik
These Are The Greatest Engines Of The Last Decade
Time is but a social construct, but as we’ve all decided the 2010s are over, I guess a roundup of the best engines of the decade is in order. We’ve got V10s (duh, because it’s me writing this list), V12s, V8s and four-bangers galore.
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TV Show Is Not What You Were Expecting
The Watch is here. But it’s not a version of Ankh-Morpork’s infamous guard that you might have been envisioning when news of a new Discworld show first popped up.
The Takeout
I ate 35 Hot Pockets in 4 days to bring you these authoritative Hot Pocket rankings
There is nothing good about Hot Pockets, and I am saying this as a person who, for some reason, enjoys a Hot Pocket every now and again. Have I ever been under the impression they were good? No. I have always known what I was getting into and have always...
Kotaku
5 Hours In,
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Is Not The RPG I Was Hoping For
I’ve played Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot for five hours so far, and it appears to be part fighting game and part fetch-quest generator. Mostly it’s a rehash of the source material that almost anyone who will be interested in the game will have seen performed half a dozen different ways.
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