YSK: You might save on car rental by cancelling and re-booking over time before your rental due date
Car rental prices might decrease over time as the rental getting closer to its due date....
YSK there is a condition that makes your armpits smell worse called trichobacteriosis that is common and easy to treat
I was talking about hygiene with my partner who is a nurse and they were telling me that a lot of people remark that their armpits are smelling worse than normal and they are using more and more deodorant and people just think it is normal....
YSK if you've built a computer and it won't boot, sometimes the issue can be resolved by taking the memory out and putting it back.
Or by only putting one stick of memory in, or changing the slot you’re using....
YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated
Consider supporting Lemmy development or donating to your local server if you have the means. Peace!...
YSK: You can and should freeze your credit reporting accounts at all 3 providers (for US users)
Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian all offer account freezing for free. Take advantage of it! It is a great way to prevent someone from wrecking your credit
YSK: About BangYourBuck.com, which lets you sort Amazon by price per pound/count/etc.
It’s a website that lets you sort amazon by price per ounce/pound/count...
YSK That There's a U.S Gov Program That Gets People Jobs
There’s a cool government program that trains and gets people jobs. They give people Housing, Basic Medical Care, Meals, Books, an Allowance, Clothing, and a Network of instructors and peers....
YSK Various Reference Sites
You should know about these sites, especially for this upcoming election season, because they are referential and nonpartisan. Each website has a line about the content....
YSK: Your local library's resources. Many offer free e-books and audio books via apps like Hoopla and Libby, resume writing classes, movies, games...and a quiet place to relax of course
YSK: If a problem you're experiencing doesn't show up in search results, could be a sign you're looking at the wrong issue
Why YSK: I had this experience this morning. I was raging because the “alt + tab” shortcut had changed on my work computer when it worked fine yesterday. Now it opened the task view, but wouldn’t switch windows unless I clicked on a different program....
YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams
For the past two years, legitimate job postings on Indeed and Glassdoor have been replaced by scams. If you’re tricked, the scammers aren’t satisfied with your contact info in your CV, they reach out via email to request that you connect on an encrypted messenger app where they can privately scam you out of thousands in...
YSK: Most "Energy Optimization Services" for buildings are scams.
I’ve been working as an automation technician for around 5 years now, and I’ve come across several services that promise a substantial improvement in energy efficiency when it comes to heating, especially involving district heating with water. Most of these are subscription services....
YSK: You can distinguish your comment from other comments as a mod in Lemmy
This is a pretty neat feature which is unknown for some reason. For example, in the Lemmy frontend, you can “speak as mod” which basically distinguishes your comment from others. It highlights it, pins it to the top of the comment section and also adds a red shield next to your username....
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YSK: To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole.
When a potato cooks, the starches contained in each cell are released as the cell walls break down. These starches absorb the potato’s internal moisture and swell and soften. These two processes are what transform a raw, hard potato into a cooked, softer potato fit for mashing....
YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine
Due to the nature of fediverse, you can’t just do a “site:lemmy” search as you’d do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin...
YSK How to select or drag/drop text on Reddit when logged out, using a Ublock Origin filter
When I search for something and open a Reddit post with recommendations, I might select some text (ex. the name of a recommended thing) and drag/drop them into the new tab area to look each one up....
YSK that if your turn signal is blinking unusually fast (like 3 or more times a second), it generally means you have a bulb out.
Why YSK: Your signals alert other drivers as to what you’re doing; a signal bulb costs a few bucks and is usually a quick and easy repair to do yourself (consult YouTube); and any place that regulates motor vehicles probably requires you to have working turn signals. So knowing when and how to replace a burned out signal bulb...
YSK the difference between lead and led (and similar-sounding/looking words)
This drives me nuts when I see it done wrong, but it’s actually kind of complicated because English is orthographically deranged....
YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete)
Why YSK: Trackers don’t do good for anyone except the platform, and they’re not necessary to view the content in the URL....
YSK: All social and cultural groups are diverse and hold people of many different views
No nation in the world is a mono-culture, and often times, people repeat statements they saw specific folk from other cultures make and assume they speak for their entire culture....
YSK about the different “ways of knowing”
On these types of forums it’s easy to jump into an argument about the technicalities or a post or comment....
YSK that the free and not-for-profit meditation app Medito had a huge update and is even better now
Built by a dutch non-profit, Medito is a meditation app that is completely free without ads, supported by donations from the community. The new update brought a completely new interface and new content....
YSK that horses evolved in North America, migrated to Eurasia across the Bering land bridge, then went extinct in North America.
Interesting link nebraskapublicmedia.org/…/origins-of-the-horse/
The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now
You should know that the issue with many communities on other Lemmy instances that you subscribed to showing a “subscribe pending” status has mostly been resolved....