YSK that your power in a negotiation falls down quickly the more dependent you are on the result of the negotiation
This is a very basic fact of life that everyone should learn in school:...
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...
YSK: Lemmy All Third Party Clients List (Android/iPhone/Web) with status of that apps! ( lemmyapps.netlify.app )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1025004...
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: 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: 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: Google tracks your app usage and so much more
Why YSK: Because you deserve to have peace of mind. Your privacy can mean your safety. I found out about this today, and in this comment I mentioned it and said I would make something more detailed....
YSK there are options for backing up / migrating your Lemmy subscriptions, blocks, etc.
(Full disclosure: I made one of the tools)...
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: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
YSK that Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake ( blog.ecosia.org )
Ecosia is great in general, they’ve done stuff like this before for wildfires and such, and they are carbin negative and use 100% of their profits for helping the planet...
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: If you want faster and less buggy User experience, move to a smaller instance that is hosted close to you.
I have been using Lemmy for 20 days, at first I opened an account at Lemmy.world because you can join without writing a text and waiting approval. I have been enjoying the experience overall but despite the admin teans best efforts Lemmy.world has been experiencing some serious performance issues. If you want to avoid that join...
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: Use RSS feeds to curate your online experience
Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don’t discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could...
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: there's a type of common hallucination (often scary) that happens shortly after waking up. You can move and talk while seeing it and it can last between a few seconds up to a minute
It’s called hypnopompic hallucination....
YSK more about Facebook/Meta's record of data security and privacy abuses. ( guild.co )
Why YSK: because, one, Facebook/Meta is a huge player in the tech industry and it’s totally unacceptable that they are continuing to be allowed to operate like this, I’m trying to raise awareness because most people have some idea that Facebook is bad, but few know the details on how and why and to what extent they’re so...
YSK: Ecosia is a search engine that plant trees with every search ( www.ecosia.org )
YSK: You can use Libreddit instead of Reddit for more privacy and no ads (and no traffic/views for Reddit)
The developer wrote a good post on Reddit, which I will mainly quote here:...
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: Threads soon joining the fediverse. ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1085036...
YSK that a lot of common questions/complaints about Lemmy are presently answered by kbin ( kbin.social )
This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It's amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade....
YSK: One of Bowser's Koopa Kids is named Lemmy ( mario.fandom.com )
And he is a total spaz. Look at this guy he’s straight up looney toons...
YSK that restroom hand dryers blow fecal bacteria onto your hands ( journals.asm.org )
There was a peer-reviewed report published in the journal for Applied and Environmental Microbiology that studied the amount of bacteria that was blown from hand dryers in 36 public restrooms at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The sample from the study concluded that as many as 60 colonies of bacteria were...