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Joel Cunningham
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Joel Cunningham is the deputy editor of Lifehacker. He has more than a decade of experience as a journalist and editor. He lives in Brooklyn and occasionally goes outside.

Look, I love Wings of Desire but it is definitely a candidate for good boring movie Read more

Roughly every three months, Best Buy will “sell” three free months of Apple TV+ for new and returning customers. Invariably by the time my free trial runs out they offer another one, or I just quit until they do (since Apple TV+ has a much lower volume of new stuff I want to see). Read more

Steve does say that it won’t be available for download until Aug. 31 Read more

The $7,000 I spent on installing french drains and a sump pump has more than paid for itself, judging by the number of neighbors I’ve seen dealing with flooded basements after every storm, now that the only way it rains is in 15 minute deluges of several inches of water Read more

Oh I mean he should DEFINITELY cash in. If I was corn kid I’d be dining out on “a big lump with knobs” for years Read more

I agree, the 52-second version was a delight; everything after was like someone who got a laugh once repeating the same joke at every party Read more

I think of Anton Chigurh as a metaphor for societal entropy, basically; I appreciate the movie because it is so ceaselessly committed to its bleak view of humanity and the world. That final Tommy Lee Jones monologue, bleak shit Read more

I’ll have you know we caught that in editing and I asked the writer to clarify what she’d wanted there and then I...forgot to add it after putting 51 logo images in there Read more

The sugar on top is necessary to get some good caramelization going Read more

But in theory it sounds good! I would have tried it, but I’d rather tried the Claire-approved twist on it. Read more

Something about sweet eggs hits me wrong, and yet I do have this leftover brine from Trader Joe’s Hot & Sweet Jalapeños... Read more

Seconding Amanda. I used to live in a small apartment with almost no counter space but I still used 1/3 of it for a countertop dishwasher that could basically handle all of two people’s dishes. The hassle was finding the right faucet adapter.

Now I live in a house but the moron who owned it before us redid the kitchen Read more

My daughter started making these when she was 9. Could she be the next Claire Lower? 🤔 Read more

There’s a workaround for that, for Windows at least: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-finally-facetime-your-non-apple-friends-1847450728 Read more

I mean to say I am NOW debating it. But someone in the comments says they did it on their regular screens and it worked. I’d probably only do it on the front of the house though. It seems like a lot of work. Read more

Painting carpet seemed like entirely unhinged behavior, but I am not seriously debating painting my widow screens Read more

Your mention of fact checking makes this a deeply ironic comment Read more