• InAbsentia@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Middle clicking links to open in a new tab

    Using chip clips when you can tuck one side of the bag in and roll the other down.

  • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I saw a similar thread on Reddit about 12 years ago and one of the suggestions near the bottom that didn’t have any comments on it is something I’ve incorporated into my daily life and it has made a huge difference: Adjust your car mirrors so you have no blind spots.

    Most people have their side mirrors adjusted where they can see a portion of their own car in the mirror. This leaves you with large blind spots. To adjust them where you have no blind spots, sit in the driver’s seat and lean your head over to the left as far as you can (basically putting your head on the window), then adjust the driver’s side mirror to where you can just barely see your car in it. Then lean your head over to the passenger side about the same amount and adjust that mirror.

    When adjusted properly if you can see a car in your rearview mirror, you shouldn’t be able to see that car in your side mirrors, but as soon as a car is no longer visible in the rearview mirror it should be visible in one of your side mirrors. Then when it is no longer visible in your side mirror it should be in your peripheral vision.

    It takes some getting used to, but once dialed in and you’re used to it then it makes changing lanes a breeze. It also helps at night if someone behind you has bright lights because you’ll only see them in one mirror instead of all 3.

  • Cap@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    When eating fries, salt the ketchup. All the salt usually just falls off the fries. Game changer

  • DjMeas@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Using shift + scroll wheel to horizontally scroll in a UI. Whenever I see my project manager going all the way to the bottom of the application and dragging the scrollbars to move horizontally it just kills me a bit inside haha.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Horizontal scrolling with shift + scroll wheel is so slow compared to dragging the bar though.

      • onwardknave@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Which is what middle mouse button scrolling is for… horizontally or vertically, and fast, too.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          3 months ago

          I wish that worked everywhere, but it doesn’t.

          Hmm maybe shift+middle button can override it on certain UIS.

  • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    i don’t use my fingertips on public. door knobs, rails, etc. i use knuckles or fist or elbow or whatever. my finger tips are not for public use. started during covid, never got covid. barely ever get sick.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I use my knuckles for pretty much any object that is public. If I must pull a door handle I use my pinkie (or my foot if no one’s looking).

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Mine is wear a medical grade mask in public spaces.

      It does multiple things.

      First it protects you from air borne pathogens like viruses and especially COVID.

      Second, if you are confronted or people get mad at you for wearing one, it immediately let’s you know what kind of people are around. If they’re the type that will get mad at you for wearing a mask, it’s definitely a place to leave and avoid in the future. A mask is a great way to weed people out in public.

      My wife has lifelong lung problems now and we can’t risk any infections. So wearing a mask is necessary for me … and at this point in my life, it’s normal now and I find that it’s normal for most people. 90% of the people that see me in a mask notice but immediately understand and don’t make an issue of it. It’s 10% of the loudest idiots that make it a problem and a mask is a great way to unmask them (pun intended)

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Working in IT.

    Tell the truth.

    We will get lied to straight to our face and when proven they are lying they double down and get annoyed.

    We don’t care that you spilt coffee on your keyboard, we just need to know it happened so we can get you a new one.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        Still wash. The flush practically aerosols waste particles into the air if you didn’t put the lid down first; bidet or no.

        • half coffee@lemy.lol
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          3 months ago

          More than this it’s just a good way to build regular hand washing into a routine. You already use a restroom a few times a day at fairly regular intervals, so you only have a few hours worth of microbes on your hands at a time.

        • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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          3 months ago

          You can always spot an American because they’re so fuckin scared of everything. Look, this one’s scared of his own shite 😂

      • Ifera@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Honestly, this feels like a meme. I have been eating man ass for years and I am yet to find someone with an unwashed butthole. Considering how often I see this claim, one would think it would be a more common problem.

        Not saying it can’t happen but, Do you have any first hand experience to support the “So many men don’t” part?

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I wouldn’t consider it a “hack”, but I’m always baffled by the number of people who don’t use any kind of content blocker on the web, then complain about full-page ads, pop-ups, and autoplay videos.

    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Mine is that, except they DON’T complain. Like when someone is showing me a YouTube video on their device and an ad shows up 30 seconds in… I lunge for the mute button while I scan the room for a blanket, clipboard, or other item to shield us, yelling “AVERT YOUR EYES!!” but next to all of my commotion, they’re just nodding along placidly like “Oh Coinbase, interesting.”

      Like… Aren’t you affronted that some company paid another company to make it less convenient to do the thing you’re trying to do?! Does the gaudy, pushy tone change to too-loud propaganda designed to coax you away from your money not gall you?!

      “Idk sometimes the ads are interesting. Free month sounds good.”

      Jesus christ he’s too far gone.

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I work on peoples’ PCs at work (regular people and not business IT), and one thing that I do for every PC I work on is add uBlock Origin Lite to Chrome and uBlock Origin on other browsers no matter what. As 8 or 9 times out of 10 the shit that caused someone to bring in their PC for cleaning are actually full-screen scam messages and scummy ads on sites or from emails. The only times I ever randomly get someone that is upset about the blockers being installed are from either the pickup person not showing them how to use them. Or I get a random person that actually uses those “news” start pages like MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc. not understanding that the blank slides in the main slideshow are not actual articles and are ads.

    • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      i used to just use like browser extensions and stuff and now have a pi hole setup for my home network, and its game changing. Even mobile apps are now ad free. Its awesome.

      • sushibowl@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        Pi Hole couldn’t block YouTube ads last time I tried it, which is one of the main things I want to have adblock for. So I went back to ublock origin.

  • Maerman@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    So I play guitar. I had a problem where I would sometimes drop my pick. Then, one day, I had an idea. I took some copper wire and attached it to a pick through a small hole I burned into it with a needle. I wrapped the wire around my finger. Now I physically cannot drop my pick.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    3 months ago

    When someone asks a thing like this on Lemmy, look up the same thread on Reddit (guaranteed to find it was recently also posted there) and copy-pasta some of the top posts. Guaranteed worthless internet up arrows.

  • hate2bme@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For those that enjoy eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches, use a hot dog bun for the bread. I know, it genius.

    • Dohnuthut@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I did this at work recently when my coworker brought me a pack of leftover hotdog buns. Texted my husband that I was having a veggie hotdog, but the fact that I didn’t think to do it until 42 is somewhat embarrassing.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      My wife recently told me she likes to grab a tortilla, lather it in peanut butter than place a whole banana inside and roll it up. All I can think is that is genius and I have to try it the next time we have the trifecta of extra tortillas, bananas that need eating and a hungry me

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Corn or flour (and I hope to god she’s heating them up first)? Growing up as a Caucasian child, my parents never cooked the tortillas on taco night and I didn’t know you were supposed to until meeting my Hispanic wife. Eating a cold tortilla now is like blasphemy.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Knock your knuckles against your car door to zap static electricity on something less sensitive.

  • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Mask. N95 or better. My wife and I never stopped, and she never gets sick despite being immunocompromised. I work in a place where illness is common due to the environment and I’ve been sick once in the last year, meanwhile all of my coworkers come in sick like twice a month. Apparently they’d rather be sick and miserable all the time than wear a mildly uncomfortable thing on their face.

    • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Do ypu have kids? No masks, also barely ever got sick. With kids I’m sick 5 or 6 times a year. Could be the same for your coworkers.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        My sweet friend with two childs is CONSTANTLY sick. My partner and I mostly WFH and have no kids and have gotten sick twice since 2020.

      • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I do not have kids, and I don’t know about my all of my coworkers, but I know the overwhelming majority of them do not have kids either.

    • SinJab0n@mujico.org
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      3 months ago

      Ok, but i have a question.

      You want us to wear it all the time? Beacause i also use a mask when i use the metro or any other means of travel in which i share a communal space.

      But being a social animal as we all r, wearing a mask all the time is a fast way to get ostracized.

      • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I would like everyone to wear them until the pandemic is over, at least. After that we can reassess the situation, and preferably during flu season. To me it seems cruel to not mask for that seeing as it would greatly reduce the number of preventable flu deaths.

        I think if all, or more realistically enough, of us were masking, that would eliminate the social stigma surrounding it. Personally, I don’t receive much pushback about my mask aside from the occasional staring anyways. What’s far more ostracizing to her, I, and several other people I know, is the fact that all of the social gatherings and hobbies we used to participate in are no longer accessible to us because not a single one is taking any acceptable precautions. In fact, I can think of exactly two social events I wanted to participate in this year that still “required” masks, and neither actually enforced the rule. This is sadly not a new problem for disabled people either. Many, if not most, are alienated from society and forced away from any participation in social activities due to a blatant disregard towards making those activities actually accessible to them. I cannot stress enough how painful this is for those people on the receiving end of this ableism. So, frankly, I have little sympathy for those who fear ostracism from choosing to wear a mask. If they really care about people being ostracized, they should do what they can to make their social circles safe for everyone, not just those without disabilities.

        • dillydogg@lemmy.one
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          3 months ago

          At the hospital I worked at there were no transmissions of COVID from known infected patients to providers wearing N95 masks (at least in the first 2 years, I didn’t keep up with it after that). So if you are wearing N95s you should feel quite confident that you are protecting yourselves without requiring behavior modifications from anyone else.

    • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      While wearing a mask is never a bad idea, it is absolutely not necessary to not get sick. I am also immunocompromised and I have stopped wearing a mask. I wash my hands very often and never eat handheld food without washing first. Zero issues since getting covid back when I was wearing a mask religiously.

      • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        We’d rather not take risks. Plus, we’d like to not accidentally contribute to the spread of disease ourselves if we can help it.

        • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          I thought masks wouldn’t protect against a virus (being tiny) but might help slow the spread to others by stopping spittle/moisture filled with virus from covering real world objects.

          How do they help you if no one else is wearing them?

          • boatswain@infosec.pub
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            3 months ago

            Because the virus is transmitted via spittle/moisture from other people not wearing masks. The virus doesn’t just hang out in the air on its own; it’s suspended in aerosol particles.

            • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 months ago

              This is somewhat misleading. Here’s a section from near the beginning of a scientific review I linked in my reply to @[email protected]:

              To reduce spread of respiratory diseases, we need to understand the mechanisms of spread. There is strong and consistent evidence that respiratory pathogens including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, tuberculosis, and other coronaviruses such as MERS and SARS-1, are transmitted predominantly via aerosols. Infected individuals, whether symptomatic or not, continuously shed particles containing pathogens, which remain viable for several hours and can travel long distances. [Emphasis mine.] SARS-CoV-2 is shed mainly from deep in the lungs, not the upper respiratory tract, and the viral load is higher in small aerosols (generated in the lower airways) than in larger droplets (generated in upper airways). Whereas large respiratory droplets emitted when people cough or sneeze fall quickly by force of gravity without much evaporation, those below 100 µm in diameter become (bio)aerosols. Even particles tens of microns in diameter at release will shrink almost immediately by evaporation to the point that under typical conditions they can remain airborne for many minutes. In contrast with droplet transmission, which is generally assumed to occur via a single ballistic hit, the risk of airborne transmission increases incrementally with the amount of time the lung lining is exposed to pathogen-laden air, in other words, with time spent indoors inhaling contaminated air.

              Respiratory infections may theoretically also be transmitted by droplets, by direct contact, and possibly by fomites (objects that have been contaminated by droplets), but the dominant route is via respiratory aerosols. The multiple streams of evidence to support this claim for SARS-CoV-2 include the patterning of spread (mostly indoors and especially during mass indoor activities involving singing, shouting, or heavy breathing), direct isolation of viable virus from the air and in air ducts in ventilation systems, transmission between cages of animals connected by air ducts, the high rate of asymptomatic transmission (i.e., passing on the virus when not coughing or sneezing), and transmission in quarantine hotels when individuals in different rooms shared corridor air but did not meet or touch any common surface.

              • boatswain@infosec.pub
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                3 months ago

                The sentence after the one you emphasized seems to be saying what I was: the virus is in aerosol particles or potentially droplets, which are what your mask protects you from.

          • amber (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review

            I recommend giving this a read when you have the time, it should hopefully answer any questions you have and better than I can.

            An assumed droplet and contact mode of transmission leads to prevention policies that center on handwashing and surface cleansing, maintaining 2-m physical distancing, wearing medical masks (whose waterproof backing is designed to stop droplets) within that 2-m distance (especially when attending an infected patient), using physical barriers (e.g., plastic screens) and providing health-care workers with higher-grade respiratory protection only when undertaking AGMPs. However, if the virus is transmitted significantly by the airborne route, different prevention policies are needed, oriented to controlling air quality in indoor spaces (e.g., ventilation and filtration), reducing indoor crowding and time spent indoors, wearing masks whenever indoors, careful attention to mask quality (to maximize filtration) and fit (to avoid air passing through gaps), taking particular care during indoor activities that generate aerosols (e.g., speaking, singing, coughing, and exercising), and providing respirator-grade facial protection to all staff who work directly with patients (not just those doing AGMPs)

            This is why I specified N95 respirators in my first comment. If you are unfamiliar, N95 is a NIOSH air filtration rating, which is used to describe the ability of a respirator to protect the wearer from airborne solid and liquid particulates. The review I linked goes into more details on this as well. I recommended N95 or better specifically because Covid is the illness I’m most concerned with avoiding, and the evidence suggests that they provide meaningful protection over lower grade respirators or surgical masks. Another quote from the link above that stood out to me:

            The certification of surgical masks for particle/bacterial filtering efficiency (P/BFE) does not reflect equivalence to respirators as the filtration is typically compromised by poor face seal. The ASTM F2100-21 P/BFE certification, for example, requires at least 95% filtration against 0.1-µm particles and at least 98% against aerosolized Staphylococcus aureus, but this is on a sample of the mask clamped in a fixture, not on a representative face. In terms of filtering aerosols, N95 respirators outperform surgical masks between 8- and 12-fold. The effectiveness of certified surgical mask material against transmission when used as a filter was demonstrated in a hamster SARS-CoV-2 model. Infected hamsters were separated from non-infected ones by a partition made of surgical mask material; when the partition was in place, transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was reduced by 75%.

            In addition to protecting the wearer, respirators provide very effective source control by dramatically limiting the amount of respiratory aerosols emitted by infectious individuals. In one study, risk of infection was reduced approximately 74-fold when infected, and susceptible individuals both wore well-fitting FFP respirators compared to when both wore surgical masks.

            As for one-way masking, well, it is unfortunately significantly less effective (from what I understand), and is a big part of why I’m so concerned by others not masking. I simply cannot avoid being around others all the time, and their lack of effort is directly endangering me and my wife. If it really all came down to personal choice, I wouldn’t care if people wanted to risk their health. Still, while I don’t have any studies or anything to link you at the moment specifically on the effectiveness of one-way masking, all I know is that I mask and don’t get sick, and they don’t mask and do get sick. It’s anecdotal, sure, and I’m certain the mask is not the only thing affecting this, but as far as I can see it’s the largest difference in our behavior. I’ve heard as well that wearing a respirator will reduce viral load should you be infected despite the filter, and so your sickness will be less severe, but I don’t have any evidence on hand for this.

    • Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Agreed. We have kept wearing masks in specific places (public transit, crowded events, airplanes) and it really does make a difference. I never get sick from airplane trips any more, which used to be a fairly regular occurrence.

      I will say, I was never able to figure out how to stop a properly fitted mask from giving me a terrible headache after 8 hours of use so I’m glad I work from home and don’t need to make the choice of mask vs comfort at work.

    • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social
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      3 months ago

      Yes yes yes! I work facing the public and I interact with people from all over the world. Me wearing a mask just feels like a basic courtesy. I could potentially spread diseases around like mad.

      I’m glad it’s more accepted now, but I have had a lot of people “looking out for my safety” to put it mildly. That’s what they say they’re doing. Really, they’re just confronting me and demand answers to personal questions as they “educate” me.

  • kalpol@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Home cooking. It is super easy and about 100x healthier. Don’t know how? Get the America’s Test Kitchen Best Skillet Recipes book. Lots of super easy things in there. Once you get in the habit you really only have to do it 3-4 times a week, and there are lots of frozen meals.

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      What would someone do if they didn’t cook their own meals? Hire a butler? Just get takeaway for their entire lives?

      That would be mental. Everyone, except the truly weird - or in special situations, home cooks the majority of the time, right? O.o

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        3 months ago

        Eat microwave food. Or “remove foil and put in oven” food. I wouldn’t call that home cooking.

        • kalpol@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          Yeah just walk through Costco and see the massive varieties of ready to eat stuff. But a ton of people here just eat out all the time too.