YSK about Cool Zones if you have no air conditioning.
Seniors are especially susceptible to heat sickness and death....
YSK: toilets and garbage disposals are some of the simplest devices to replace in a home
Both their functionings are complex, so people can get impressed. But for both of them, all the complexity is inside the device and there isn’t much to put together; and the way they hook up to your house is really simple....
YSK: The Search Engine Ecosia Plants Trees With Your Searches
Ecosia is a German search engine company which donates 80% of its revenue to planting trees. They take Bing, reskin it, and spend the profits from advertising on planting trees. They’re up to about 175,000,000 trees so far....
YSK a free, lightweight alternative to Spotify
Why YSK: Spotify forces you either to pay, listen to ads or to find unofficial, potentially dangerous versions to use it. It's better to find a free alternative, both for your wallet and for your peace of mind....
YSK - X percent of Y is equal to Y percent of X. So, if you want to find out what 7% of 50 is, you could instead find out what 50% of 7 is, which is 3.5. This means that 7% of 50 is also equal to 3.5.
Why YSK: It helps when calculating percentages. If you want to find out what 2% of 20 is, do 20% of 2 instead and you’ll get 0.4. So, 2% of 20 also equals 0.4....
YSK: Every car sold in the US from 2018 onwards is REQUIRED to have a backup camera -- It's not an extra feature
Why YSK: Since May 2018, all newly-built cars sold in the United States are required to have a backup camera and video display for the camera. Many car dealers, both used and new, will advertise the backup camera as some kind of added luxury or special option and try to charge you more for it. Don’t bite the bait and...
YSK: When traveling abroad, hand gestures can mean different things in different cultures.
Why YSK: No sense in making the locals mad unless you mean to. In some Middle Eastern countries, a thumbs-up is comparable to the middle finger. A peace sign in the UK is OK if your palm is facing away from you; otherwise, it’s an insult. Pointing with your index finger is offensive in Malaysia. An OK symbol is not OK in...
YSK: It's "Habanero", not "Habañero"
Many English speakers apply what is known as a “hyperforeignism” to the Spanish word habanero, using an ñ to mimic other Spanish words like “jalapeño”. This is not correct though, as “habanero” is named for the Cuban city Habana (or Havana in English).
YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states ( kbin.social )
Why YSK: Because you may delete your account and find your comments and other content is restored and beyond your control....
ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap
User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca....
YSK: There is a bot spam posting reddit content, and blocking it will improve your experience sorting by All
Why YSK: This bot is constantly reposting reddit content to its own lemmy instance, lemmit.online. Most of it goes completely unnoticed and produces no discussion. If you like using All to find new communities, and sort by New, all you’ll see is this bot. Its highest upvoted post has 40 upvotes and 0 comments, and it has over...
YSK that Apollo is subject to auto-refund and you can decline this refund before the weekend. ( appleinsider.com )
Apollo can’t afford Reddit’s fees and will be subject to auto-refund for shutting down, so users can help by declining the refund.
Harbor Freight has replacement parts you can buy. ( lemmy.world )
I just found out today that if something you bought from Harbor Freight broke them most likely you can buy a replacement part for it. They have a list you can download and look through and find the part you need and can call and order it. Here is the list:...
YSK: Nazi is short for Nationalsozialist. Orwell cited the abbreviation as one of his inspirations for "Newspeak", his fictional language that conceals the ideological content of words. ( kbin.social )
Why YSK:...
YSK: You can set Windows Task Manager to always display on top ( kbin.social )
In the settings of the Windows Task Manager is an option to force it to always display on top of other applications. One of the first things I do when setting up a new computer is to enable this option....
YSK Why American-style suburbs are a Ponzi scheme ( www.youtube.com )
The financial unsustainability of traditional, car-centric American suburbs, consisting mainly of single-family units, is a critical aspect of the problem of urban sprawl. The design of these suburbs necessitates constant expansion into undeveloped land. This is because the initial infrastructure costs, such as roads, utilities,...
YSK Spirit Airlines is the worst choice for air travel
YSK - this is a rant but meant as a public service because everyone should know about this shoddiness....
YSK: It’s summer and that means disturbing swim advisories. Here’s our top 5 ( arstechnica.com )
Behold the most nauseating and mesmerizing swim advisories floating around.
YSK the updated steering wheel hand placement Spanish
In the past drivers were taught to keep their hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Now it is advised to hold the steering wheel differently depending on your steering technique...
YSK hands, feet and the upper part of your face are the most effective vectors of heat relief, while draping a cold towel around your neck can actually stop you from cooling down. ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Why YSK: "Our bodies have a kind of emergency temperature relief valve. That valve is a special type of blood vessel: they’re called arteriovenous anastomoses. Most arteries and veins connect through a bed of very thin capillaries that bring nutrients and oxygen to cells. AVAs, though, are different. They are direct junctions...
YSK that you can follow peertube channels as if they're communties in lemmy (and presumably kbin)
I was waiting until I saw something show up in my feed to verify and I just saw it....
YSK how to theme Lemmy's UI to replicate old.reddit's compact layout using Monkey scripts ( github.com )
Why YSK: If you previously preferred browsing old.reddit for its compact and information dense web layout, you should know that this theme can be replicated for Lemmy using monkey scripts....
YSK: Deer and rabbits "park" their babies and spend most of the day away from them. If you find a baby all alone, it is almost definitely not abandoned.
Why YSK: DON’T bring it somewhere to ‘save’ it unless it’s in immediate danger - you’re probably just kidnapping it from its mom. People find baby deer or rabbits with no parents nearby and think they’re abandoned, so they bring them to shelters to try to “save them”. In reality they’re just forcibly separating...
YSK that first aid changed quite a bit in the last few years, so if haven't done training recently, you should! ( www.redcross.org.uk )
Why YSK: there has been quite a development in the first aid medicine and some things we used to learn are now regarded as myths and should be avoided. Anyway it always good to, keep your first aid knowledge up to date.
YSK embed an image into your comments here when the image is externally hosted
Why YSK: You don’t need to load down the instance by uploading the image to the instance. You only need to know the syntax is on the following line:...