u/awgeez47

I'm going out of town for about 2 weeks and wanna be able to replicate my Toddy cold brew system. (Nothing hits right for me like coffee strained through the Toddy felt filter. I've tried loads of alternatives, including cheesecloth, which is nice and portable, but it doesn't come out tasting the way I like. Why? idk! But I just wanna stick with my filter that reliably makes what I want to drink.)

In the past on long-ish trips like this, I've actually brought my big dumb white plastic Toddy container, in order to be able to make good cold brew. (Since then, I've started doing the overnight stage in a big glass carafe and only using the white container for the filtering part, which has made me more confident about not being tied to it.)

This time I'm thinking of skipping the white container: I could steep in an alternate vessel like I do with my glass carafe. And then I could probably sort of stuff the filter into a kitchen funnel, then veeeery slowly pour the steeped coffee through it, 'til I have a full batch. I'll also bring a cloth filter bag (and have paper as an option too), so the grounds will be contained.

What do y'all think? Would this work, without being ultra messy? Any better ideas?

I’m level 83 in french. Not incredible but, you know, my vocab is pretty decent. But since the message a couple days ago that said they’ve changed some things, I’ve just been getting drilled over and over on incredibly basic “first day of first French class”-level words… Yes, no, hello, and, thank you… etc.

And not just once or twice but over and over… If I do a words/vocab practice session or the flashcards it just loops me through the same shitty basic set of words. WTF. Has anyone else been experiencing this? Obviously, it’s good practice to occasionally review older vocab terms, but that’s not what’s going on here, it’s just worthless busy work.

…and am I wrong to think this is happening because they now have AI making up their content (I think?)?

I'm trying to book a stay using points, which cover the entire reservation. There's also a Mastercard saved to the account and applied to the reservation. However, when I click 'Book Now', I get this message:

>Correction Needed.

>Before you book... The payment method you entered is not accepted at this property, please proceed with a different form of payment.

But... my payment method is points. Are they saying this property, a Courtyard by Marriott which I found via their own booking interface, does not take points? Or could it be the card? (At first I thought I'd tried to use an Amex or something.) Is it likely just a glitch and the system is down?

Appreciate any insight, if you have it!

I have a crapton of .epub documents on my Kindle.

1. As you know, when we finish reading a document, it's supposed to be automatically switched from "unread" to "read". Except it doesn't, for me. (Mostly. In some cases it does work correctly, but I can't figure out a pattern to when/why.) I have literally hundreds of documents like this... which makes the 'Unread' filter basically useless. Which is how I browse!
2. Weirdly, those documents are correctly marked with the "read" status on all OTHER Kindle interfaces: the 'Manage Your Content' webpage, the iOS Kindle app, and the OSX Kindle app. So I can't even try to mark them as read via a more convenient interface.
3. I can manually mark a document as read on the Kindle. But I have to do it one at a time: each one takes multiple taps and the Kindle hangs/freezes for several seconds after each one. Totally not feasible to do for hundreds of docs.

Any ideas on how to get the docs marked as "read" in the cloud to switch over to that status on the device?

• I'm on a Kindle Oasis on the latest software (5.18.2), but I think this was also happening on my old Paperwhite. I've tried restarting.
• I have Whispersync on and Goodreads unlinked.
• The docs were added to the device via the official Amazon Send-to-Kindle email feature.