Both bottles came from the same vehicle fire, and both were equally black with soot. I cleaned the larger bottle with the product itself, about to go clean the smaller bottle, just figured I'd share the comparison, the stuff works great for fire soot!

This is my own tip ive been doing and helping others to do as well.

I notice people (especially young) dont use bookmarks/favorites anymore. Many mainly know only 3 things online:. Google (only reading summaries), x, and tiktok. Probably chatbots too.

I myself have a ton of bookmarks for interesting hard to find sites (many I found on Lemmy) and when i find myself endless scrolling or being bored, I go to my bookmarks!! Its always way more enjoyable and actually helps my brain learn. Whether its an article I marked to read later or an old forum post or a blog, it's much better for you than constant content consuming.

Another benefit is you're keeping your web traffic off corpo net and reducing their tracking and revenue from you.

Things like wikwok on f droid are wonderful as well.

I only wish i had kids so I could teach them these things and stop the brain rot! Its really sad how many people are turning into zombies because of endless addictive scrolling.

Here is an incredible Gmail tip to quickly unsubscribe from all the companies you may have unknowingly subscribed to.

Open Gmail in a web browser.

Delete everything in the URL after /mail/ and replace it with /mail/#sub

This will open a list of all the companies you are subscribed to for emails, together with an unsubscribe button for each one.

Source

YSK You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

With just one hand, you can count to 31, and with both hands you can reach a whopping 1,023. This is because the placement of the held up fingers matters, rather than the amount.

It can be very useful in everyday use, being able to count to huge numbers when you don't have your phone or pen and paper nearby.

If you still have to shop on Amazon for one reason or another, but you don't need the things you're ordering as fast as possible, Amazon will sometimes have an option for a later delivery time.

The option is sometimes marked as a "Lower Carbon" or a "No Rush" delivery. Sometimes, these options will have a little bit of text under them saying you get a "digital reward" if you pick that option. That reward credit can't be used towards regular products, but it can be used towards digital items, such as music.

If you didn't know, you can still buy MP3s of songs from Amazon Music for most of the artists on their platform. (though I wouldn't recommend doing this without the credit, since their prices are higher than most other marketplaces like Bandcamp, Qobuz, etc)

Essentially, if you choose to get your package a bit later:

• The shipping process can optimize for scale over speed, which reduces carbon emissions, and makes the jobs of delivery drivers and warehouse workers a little bit easier
• You get free money you can throw at musicians to own their music instead of being reliant on a subscription service

If you have the credit, (it can sometimes take a few days to show up after the delivery, they'll email you) you just go to Amazon Music, find an album, go to the album's page, then select MP3 Music under Purchase Options and it'll let you download it right away!

You can see how much credit you have in your account, then way down at the bottom in the Shopping programs and rentals section under No-Rush rewards summary.

This is a good way to make any packages you do still have to order on Amazon a little better for people and the planet, and it also gets you some free music while supporting the artists you like. If you're building a local music collection like me, this is a good way to add onto that!

Maybe this is obvious to most, but for the first 10 years living on my own I kept the tree in the original box. Once I discovered Christmas tree bags it was life changing.

The part that says either ?si= or &si= is only for tracking. You can remove this part of the link and it will still function just the same. It makes the link shorter and also helps protect your privacy. The only important part of a YouTube URL is the video ID. There are two types of URLs:

youtube.com/watch?v=

For this one you can remove everything after and including the ampersand if present.

youtu.be/(videoid)?tracking

For this one you can remove everything after and including the question mark.

Note the exception is if you want to intentionally leave in playlist information you might want to keep that part.

If you, like me, use DuckDuckGo as a search engine but are annoyed your preference for no AI summaries couldnt carry over to private tabs. I much more prefer a Wikipedia snippet or the like.

A simple mixture of 50% antacid + 50% water relieves the effect of those chemicals in your eyes. From this summer's Action Skill Share event.

For the exhibition, "Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area," at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. See more at ybca.org/take-this-hammer

Double the number, then reduce by one-tenth the doubled number, then add 32

Example: To convert 25 C double it to 50, reduce by 5 to get 45, then add 32 to get 77 F.

The reason this works is because 9/5 = 10/5 - 1/5. And the nice thing about this is that it is an exact conversion not an estimation.

If you don't pay off your monthly credit card statement in full you will have to pay 25% interest until its paid off, not fun. So instead as a fail safe, I created 2 cashapp accounts, 1 attacked to my checking account for my bank, and 1 attached to my credit card.

TIL that I must share with yall.

If you go to google docs, then Tools > Preferences > Substitutes you can add one at time a shortcut.

For example if you want to type other currencies other than the dollar you can put UK$ = £ to always get £ or EU$ = € to always get €

Once you find it it's hard to stop, and can make things SO easy,

Also Tools > Preferences allows you to turn off things like auto capitalize for new lines.

When querying AI, end the query with "provide verifiable citations". It often vastly reduces the bullshit.

This likely applies to all larger commission based purchases but do your large buys near the end of the month.

Why? Commission based jobs generally have bonuses and incentives for their staff to hit specific sales targets for the month. What this means is, near the end of the month you'll have sales staff trying a little harder to close deals and get in those last minute sales. What this means for you is a sales person more willing to negotiate a better deal on your purchase.

This is coming from personal experience as I worked in furniture sales for 6 years (two different stores) and tried it out a couple times myself.

TTL

The default TTL for Android is 64. Default for Linux is 64. Default for Windows is 128.

When a packet passes through the router, its TTL is decreased by 1. So a packet from your phone will have TTL of 64, while one from device on hotspot will get decremented to 63 when passing your phone, acting as a router.

Unless it starts with 65, then gets decremented to 64, the same as with your phone directly.

On Linux you can temporarily change this with

sysctl net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=65

as root.

If the carrier just checks the TTL, congrats.

I haven't played around with IPv6 hop limit.

HTTP proxy

If that doesn't work, you can try to proxy traffic through the phone. I like to use Tinyproxy in Termux.
The config is pretty simple, and also supports (unencrypted) authentication with username and password.

Another option is an all in one app like TetherFi. It creates WiFi Direct group (without direct internet access), and has a built-in HTTP proxy.

Both ways allow also using your phone's VPN.

The HTTP proxy can be easily configured in Firefox, for example. For Android, there is a pretty cool app called NekoBox which is a proxy client for many different protocols. It uses the VPN interface to pass everything through the proxy, thus giving you full device connectivity on the other device.

TinyProxy: https://tinyproxy.github.io/ (can simply be apt installed in Termux)

Termux: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ (terminal emulator for Android)

TetherFi: https://github.com/pyamsoft/tetherfi

NekoBox: https://github.com/MatsuriDayo/NekoBoxForAndroid

When you get a new phone or tablet or computer you should charge it to ~80% and then wait until it's below 20% before charging again. This will protect the battery life. Basically leaving your phone charging overnight slowly breaks your battery because it's constantly being stuck on maximum capacity straining the internal structure of the battery.

Keeping your devices on WiFi also helps greatly increase the time before the next change

Not my tip, but one that saved me recently. A six-month-old comment on a 9-year-old Reddit thread.

1. Compress the chair (all the way down), then turn it upside down. Let it sit upside down for 24 hours (the longer the better).
2. The next evening, leave it upside down and expand it (in other words, make it higher WHILE it is STILL upside down).
3. Then (without waiting another 24 hours) compress it (all the way down again), and leave it there for another 24 hours (again the longer the better).

Note that you will need a lot of force to get it back down in step 3.

Problem solved. (You may need to do this again in 2 years). No mess, no oil, no piston replacements or PVC spacers needed. Why does this work - you are forcing the oil back to the top (when its upright) again which allows the internal gasket to get coated with oil. The oil creates the air barrier that keeps the piston from shrinking as you sit on it.

Scrambled To get perfect scrambled eggs regardless of what you like with it, the most important thing is to constantly stir your eggs in a small pot, I add a ton of a lot of butter but you don't have to, stir until the eggs start to thicken and once all the liquid egg is gone its perfect.

Fried Use a stainless steel pan, wait until it starts to smoke or about 2.5 minutes on high heat (Turn on the fan or the smoke detector will go off) then turn it to medium put a decent amount of oil into the pan spread it around and crack your eggs into the pan. Let them cook for about 30 seconds or until the eggs stop sticking, and then flip them over wait about 15 seconds and then remove them from the pan, you'll have a crispy golden brown white with a runny yoke.

Boiled Being a pot of water to a boil, cook 5 minutes for soft (Cooked white runny yoke), 7.5 for medium (molasses consistency) , 10 for hard, then immediately put it in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking.

Poached Get a pot of water boiling, put a splash of vinegar if you have it, and then crack your egg into a big cooking spoon or ladle, spin the water and drop it in wait till the egg yoke is fully cooked about 3-5 minutes.

Be the star of your next family breakfast.

In case where you have a wisdom tooth in place that sometimes feels like it may have to be removed, sooner or later, then go get it removed. The sooner the better. If for the most of time the tooth doesn't bother you or hurt, it's easy to keep procrastinating and postponing the operation for years or even decades.

Trust me, the healing process is a wholly different beast when you're in your 50's compared to if you were in your 20's or 30's.

I can’t tell you how many times I had ended up with little to no blankets after sleeping 4 four hours. Eventually, spouse and I decided that we would get two full-size blankets for the bed so that we could each have one. This has prevented so many restless nights.

Not sure if it's a life pro tip, an ADHD pro tip, or a cat owners' pro tip, but I've forgotten food in the microwave so many times after putting it there to keep my cat out of it, it kinda hurts. I always allow my food to cool some before putting it away, but these days, I use a microwave timer to remind me. It won't shut up unless I go push a button. And while I'm in there, I might as well clean the rest of the kitchen. Since I'm up.

By the way, I woke up to cat barf on my countertop. How's your morning going?