UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates ( www.uopeople.edu )
If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!...
YSK you can meditate without sitting quietly ( psychcentral.com )
WHY YSK- Many people practice mindfulness and meditation as part of their lives, and some would like to but feel like they don’t have time to sit down and meditate properly. Once you’ve gotten used to doing it as a part of your daily activities, it becomes easy to simply take a few breaths and gain some peace from your...
YSK: you can setup pihole on any old rooted android (5.0+) device ( lemmy.nz )
I just discovered this and it works fantastically on any old / unused android device you might have lying around, I was shocked at how easy it was, all the instructions are there, once you have it running all you need to do is set your router DNS settings to your pihole IP address and presto! Ads and trackers are gone!...
YSK: The Fediverse is a privacy nightmare ( blog.bloonface.com )
TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!
NAC makes you insensitive to alcohol
N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a harmless (EDIT: please check at least en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine for possible side effects) compound which protects your liver, you can buy after searching like for 10 seconds...
YSK: Keeping your accounts/online identity safe in the age of the fediverse/federated networks
As more people flock over to the fediverse from reddit, twitter and other centralised proprietary networks it is important that you keep your e-mail and other important accounts safe from hijacking attempts. Since anyone can simply spin up an instance and host users and communities it is important that you don’t divulge your...
YSK: Use this cool tool to find your favorite subreddit on Lemmy! ( sub.rehab )
This site lists the communities on -shall not be named- that have either migrated or are also located on different sites. It also lists whether it is the official community or a spin off. A very helpful tool for those who have rid of -shall not be named- and have forgotten communities they once followed.
YSK: How to embed images accessibly on Lemmy
Why YSK: If you want to make Lemmy a more accessible place for all, you need to know how to add labels (aka: “alt text”) to embedded images...
YSK: there is a Lemmy frontend similar to old reddit called mlmym ( mlmym.org )
Why YSK: you can recreate the old Reddit experience by using this frontend for those who have always used old.reddit. It also gives a nostalgic feel, is more efficent, and loads faster than the Lemmy interface....
YSK: lemmyverse.net is the best way to find active communities ( lemmyverse.net )
You should know this because finding communities on lemmy can be tough.
YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect
Why YSK?...
YSK: You can press the Windows logo key+V to show up the clipboard history.
Why YSK: Suppose, you want to copy multiple parts of texts from different documents to a single document. You can copy all of them and paste one by one by bringing up the clipboard history. This is one of the many useful cases of a clipboard history....
YSK about bismuth subgallate, an "internal deodorant" that makes your stools and flatulence not smelly
Why YSK: there are times when you need to not be stinky. A multi-day outing with friends staying in one house comes to mind. Taking bismuth subgallate will make even your vilest poops and farts smell like absolutely nothing. In the US, it’s FDA approved for that purpose and comes in chewable tablets.
YSK: If you work in the U.S. as a W-2 worker, you can check to see how much money you've paid into Social Security and learn when you'll become eligible to draw from it in retirement ( kbin.social )
https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/statement.html...
YSK: Many price drops aren't what they seem... ( news.ufl.edu )
Why YSK: Online platforms, particularly some very prominent offenders, may artificially spike prices before creating “discounts”. Whether this is intentional or the result of third party sellers fighting amongst themselves, I cannot say. Either way, don’t blindly purchase something because of a deal (camelcamelcamel is...
YSK About Trending Communities
!trendingcommunities...
YSK: You can see which instances your home instance is federated with and which they've defederated/blocked by going to "/instances"
For example, you can see this breakdown for Lemmy.world by going to https://lemmy.world/instances
YSK How to bypass paywalls on news articles
Why YSK: Information should be free and open for all...
YSK How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster ( www.wsj.com )
Because it’s not totally intuitive how to prep and use tech in an emergency. Archived version: archive.fo/wk3fE
YSK: If your instance updated to 0.18.1, there's new themes in your profile settings, including compact and pure black themes! (for the website version of lemmy, version number at bottom of page)
Why YSK: Because that’s friggin awesome?!...
YSK how we can bring more users to Lemmy
So this Lemmy place is pretty awesome, and I see it growing by the hour! Just like others link external sites for content here, we should really also share Lemmy content to external (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) to show others where the users are going now....
YSK: Sometimes fostering just doesn't work out.
I’ve been fostering a family member for a month or so, and it all came to a head today. My wife and I tried, but the behavior was just too much for us to feel safe with our existing children. I hate that we’re giving up and I hate the circumstances that caused this, but it is what it is. If you’re in the same place please...
YSK: Feel like you only see the same 2-day old content? At least on lemmy.world, you can change your homepage's default sorting type & scope to "Hot" and "All"
Sorting Type...
YSK that if you live alone and have a pet, you should carry a card in your wallet to notify the appropriate people of your pet's existence.
Why YSK: There are a lot of people these days living alone with pets and if anything happened to the owner, others may not know to attend to the pet. If something happened to you, a coma, an accident, death, etc, your wallet would be the first place anyone would look for info about you and it would probably be the fastest way to...
Google will be deleting inactive google accounts together with all data on them starting December 1, 2023 ( support.google.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/545702...