When you get on an airplane, take Your backpack off and carry it by hand. You’ve got luggage on your back sticking out 12, 16 inches and you’re swinging it around like a brain dead fool.
The number of people that cluelessly hit people in aisle seats, shove backpacks in the faces of aisle sitters as the wearer turns to to talk to friends or tries to remember their alphabet and how to count while looking for their seat is ridiculous.
Take your backpack off! You’re hitting people.
this applies for boarding/riding on public transit (bus, subway).
Also drive very defensively on the road. Car ego isn’t worth it behind a 2 ton death machine.
With jobs, there is no trade off between pay and atmosphere/nice environment. Bad employers pay bad and treat you badly. Good employers give you decent wage and also treat you well
Always use sunscreen.
It’s true, Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen
Have a fire extinguisher. Just in case.
And make sure it’s rated for the type(s) of fires you may get. Don’t want to use the wrong one and make it worse.
Buy a plunger before you need one.
Make sure you buy the correct type of plunger.
Cup plungers are meant for sinks.
Flange plungers are meant for toilets.
You can always use the poop knife before you need a plunger.
I posted this on Reddit back in the day. Use a plastic bag if you don’t have the right plunger. Bad for the environment, good for unblocking clogs. Stick a toilet brush inside the bag, a bit of air is good. Secure the top with an elastic band or whatever, you can even use the bag handles tied. Shove it in the toilet and use it just like a plunger, the bag should form a full seal at some point, might take a bit of trying/wiggling but the bag will eventually get a seal because it is variable size/volume. If you are not getting the seal you need you can shove your hand in the bag, it’s nasty to some people but in honesty there is nothing touching your hand but the inside of the bag. You can force a seal this way. Now pull. Done. No need to call anyone.
Always anchor heavy, tall or easy to climb furniture to a wall. Use either a stud or a drywall anchor. Even if you rent.
The holes are tiny and easy to spackle fill and could save your child, pet or elderly persons life.
Don’t be fucking lazy, anchor that dresser.
What if im trying to murder someone via a rube goldberg style contraption and easy-to-tip-over furniture is my coup de grace? edit: golberg -> goldberg
Never had a problem in my life and don’t plan on having kids so nah.
Gotta be the dumbest take I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
The dumbest on lemmy is not mounting every piece of furniture to the wall. Whew that’s wild.
Luxury is cheap if you are clever. You can buy a premium 500$ office chair from 10-100$ if you can find one locally used one.
Buying the best value refurbished laptops and computer parts can save so much money. You can buy a refurbished laptop with 512gb SSD storage and 32gb of ram for 250$, the newest MacBook has 128gb SSD storage and 8gb of ram for 1000$. You can literally buy 4x the ram and storage for 1/4 of the price.
I have like 20,000$ worth of furniture but payed like 2,000$ for it. Use Google lens on cheap furniture you see and you’ll find some extraordinary value. I once found a 4,500 brass chandelier for 45$ at a habitat for humanity. Make sure to buy it from a store that checks for bed bugs etc.
Knowing how to repair stuff. The value of expensive items are very delicate, a single broken part can make the price plummet. This way you can get an expensive device, or anything, and replace a small or simple part. Did this on a cheap laptop with a broken power button and it works great.
Knowing how to “tune” your tools and stuff. A lot of cheap tools and items can be made much better with some fine tuning. On a saw, re-set and sharpen the teeth, on a knife thin and sharpen the edge, run Linux on old hardware etc. For everything you have, squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.
I’m against used furniture that you sit on like chairs and couches because you don’t know what the previous owner did on them and indont want to be in a seat that has had contact with bodily fluids
Carnivorous plants are not as hard to take care of as most people think. Sundews are literally an invasive species in New Zealand, and Venus flytraps are from South Carolina. The reason they seem hard to take care of is because many companies that sell carnivorous plants provide incorrect care instructions or pot them in the wrong type of soil. Most likely as a planned obsolescence scheme to get people to buy more. Learn the proper care instructions, and they’re extremely hardy.
The Carolinas are an amazing place for carnivorous plants. Over 30 species of them including Venus fly traps are native to the area.
Every time you pass through a door that locks, do this:
- hold the door open, not allowing it to close
- locate the key that opens that lock and hold it
- now let the door close
- let go of the key
The more you do this, the more it becomes a habit: you never let a locked door close unless you’re holding the key that opens it.
The fact that it’s physical touch and not just mental confirmation makes it stronger, and easier to program as a habit since you sort of build it into your body.
It’s just a mental trigger: PASSING THROUGH DOOR -> TOUCH KEY
Then sometimes you’ll be unconsciously reaching for that key to touch it, and you can’t find it, and you’re still holding the door open, and it just saved you from a major hassle of being locked out.
If you have a recurring problem with your computer that has no obvious cause, test your memory.
That includes NVMe… Just spent two weeks troubleshooting a constant random reboot on my newly built pc… It ended up being the m.2 port on the motherboard that was faulty, not even the drive itself. I’ve been building computers personally and professionally for over 20 years and that was a first for me. Everyone I talked to and every support forum insisted RAM or power supply were the problem but nope! Not this time!
But the lesson here is, if you have a recurring problem that has no obvious cause… Test EVERYTHING. Start with the common stuff that fails and work your way down: Power Supply -> RAM -> CPU -> GPU -> HDDs -> SSDs -> USBs
Tips for RAM: It’s usually best to first boot into a ram testing tool like memtest86 and just let that do its thing. That alone is usually all you need to know if you have a memory issue. Sometimes though, results may not make sense, I’ve seen situations where a new stick of RAM fails at almost every block and it turned out to be the slots on the motherboard that were faulty. In that case if results seem a little fishy you can remove all but one stick of RAM in the first slot, run another test, then move that stick of RAM down to the next slot. Repeat until all slots have been tested, you can also be extra thorough if needed and repeat the same test with the other sticks of RAM. That usually helps rule out if it’s a motherboard issue or an issue on the stick of RAM.
CPU/GPU: usually any old stress test will make any hardware issues apparent with these two.
SSDs: these can be a little tricky to test especially if you are booting from them but in my case I found that completely removing the NVMe drive solved all my problems (well a mobo rma was the real fix). I couldn’t even boot into a live Linux USB without crashing and rebooting when my NVMe was plugged in. One not so obvious clue that the SSD was acting up was that event logs related to the crash were never written to the drive… Because I/O was outright failing.
USBs: yes, USBs are on that list. One of my first significant computer issues that I had ever encountered occurred from a faulty USB hub that stopped my PC from even booting up. I took it to two different repair shops they all told me nothing was wrong with my computer, but every time I brought it back home and plugged everything back in… I couldn’t boot. It was a lucky chance that I figured out it was the USB hub, that was not a fun one.
Now I didn’t even add motherboards to the list because quite frankly I’m not sure how they rank but they are the absolute worst piece of hardware to troubleshoot but luckily it’s usually pretty rare that they fail. There are so many connections and settings built into motherboards that it quickly gets overwhelming trying to troubleshoot anything related to it. From my experience, if you have individually tested every bit of hardware and everything passes its test, most often it’s the motherboard that’s failing, especially if you have already ruled out software/firmware issues for sure. Motherboard issues aren’t always obvious and can often fail in very bizarre ways.
And as a final bit of advice I’d like to throw out there from my years of experience in PC building… NEVER CHEAP OUT ON A POWER SUPPLY. It affects every single component in your PC and when they fail it can get ugly. I bought a super cheap off-brand power supply one time and pushed that thing to the absolute limits and when it failed it took down more than half of my PC with it, fried my motherboard, CPU, and RAM. Additionally, the risk of fire is not zero when these things fail. Always use ONLY the cables provided for that power supply and nothing else. Those cables are rated specifically for the wattage that can be supplied by that power supply. Also, it’s good to get a power supply that’s roughly 100+ watts more than what your PC needs. This helps in maximizing the efficiency of the power supply as well as increasing longevity due to less thermal wear.
Just to add to this. If its a removable part. If it works in a different machine then its either a compatibility issue with the part or the problem is with what its plugged into
A bicycle doubles your speed for the same effort as walking.
Understad the things you use every day.
Using a phone? understand how computers and operating systems work and how networking works, at least at a basic level.
Brushing your teeth? Learn how to do it correctly. Understand the logic behind it. Do some basic research.
Own a car? learn how to maintain it, understand how it works, understand its limitations.
live in a house? understand how to maintain it, how to repair it, how it works, where your electric box is.
Etc. You don’t have to be an expert on everything, but you should have a basic understanding of the things you use every day.
When traveling or going to a convention in the USA bring a surge protector for extra power outlets.
Put trash bags at the bottom of your trash can for efficient replacement.
The worst job I’ve ever heard of was back in Tenochtitlan where someone would go around in a canoe collecting human dung.
I wouldn’t mind a job going around in a canoe though
Depends on the weather.
Nice weather would be nice. Maybe inspecting irrigation ditches in a desert. Always sunny, paddling around those ditches all the time. And there’s dogs that need rides to various places via the canoe.
A friend of mine is a river rafting guide. On the trips, everyone poops in a big metal box. At the end of the week, she has to clean out the box. Sort of same deal. Raft instead of canoe and a different reason for carrying poop around, but don’t let your dreams be dreams.
