The Wi-Fi Password Sign Every Café Secretly Needs

A reader spotted this sign at a café and sent it straight to us. It is the passive-aggressive masterpiece every barista has been dreaming of writing.

Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again?

Technology is magic until it is not. Our tech desk has compiled a short list of proven, entirely unscientific fixes.

• Unplug it and look at it disapprovingly
• Move the router one centimeter to the left
• Blame the update, whatever the update was

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln

If none of that works, the problem is almost certainly the printer. It is always the printer.

A quick note on how this post came together: the idea arrived in our tips inbox, survived two editorial meetings, one argument about whether it was actually funny, and a vote that was decided by the office cat walking across the keyboard. We cleaned it up, checked every detail, and added only the jokes we could defend in front of our mothers.