This LPT doesn’t violate the community rule against illegal advice because in this purely hypothetical scenario the law means nothing

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?

Adding the url parameter "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your google search turns off personalised results

Discoverd it after Google suggested it for a search term that didn't have many results

All those drain cleaners didn't work. Pulling the stopper out and cleaning the gunk off a paper towel worked.

I recommend nitrile gloves. Don't run the tap when you have the lever screw open, water will leak out of there. You can use an old toothbrush to reach down the drain pipe and pull up more gunk. After, I filled the sink up with hot water then drained in one go. Don't know if it sanitizes exactly but I think it helps, cut down on the smell anyway.

We've all been there. Something goes wrong, so you call customer service. What answers is a bizarre, arcane mess of an answering machine where you have to puzzle out exactly how company x categorizes customer issues when all you want is to talk to a human being. Saying "Complaint" cuts through all of that, but you might need to wait on hold for a bit. Just make sure you're nice to the person on the other end.

A couple glugs of olive or sunflower oil into tissues or paper towels makes a great easy firelighter for wood burning stoves etc.

I use an old mixed nuts container.

48% of Americans are magnesium deficient. From googling, the hard to absorb inorganic ones are magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride. The easy to absorb organic salts include magnesium citrate, lactate, aspartate, and glycinate.

I also found when I eat eggs, I crave chocolate less. I think it's the fat content.

(But I expect many just like the sugar.)

This only works by phone. Be nice, but firm. Don’t be satisfied with their first answer – make them escalate you to the retention department. They’re often authorised to give much larger discounts because it’s cheaper for them to retain customers than to recruit new ones.

Everyone loves the simple joy of a donut, but you're just not living life until you've had a hot donut.

Edit: Change this up based on how many you're warming up and how strong your microwave is. It takes a little bit of getting to know the donuts from your local shop and your microwave and how they interact.

This feels like a common courtesy I don't see enough, particularly the second point. In a conversation circle, always try to keep your side vision open to people trying to find their way in. It can be awkward to try and find your own way in so giving them a spot tells them they're included then drop a quick brief on the conversation "We're talking about pineapples on pizza, good or bad" gives them context to jump in immediately.

Get a medium to large metal coffee can, or any old metal can I guess. Make sure it's cleaned out and dry to start with, and is not rusty.

Then get some spray cooking oil and a few scraps of bread. Spray the inside of the can with cooking oil, then drop some bread scraps in there.

Now you have a roach trap, set it near where the roaches are generally at their worst, and they'll crawl out of the walls and into the can to get their munch on, but won't be able to crawl back out.

Check it every couple or few days or so, eventually the roaches will start piling up and most of them that have been in there for a bit will end up dying because they're covered in the cooking oil and apparently can't absorb oxygen.

Take the trap as necessary and either dump it in the toilet and flush them away, or if you have access to a bonfire burn pile, bag the little demons up and burn them. Then clean the can out and reset the trap as necessary.

Even with the worst infestations I've ever seen, this tends to eliminate over 99% of them within about two weeks, if not less.

A few thoughts about the different approaches between my trap vs poison...

If you poison them, then they just go back into your walls and die, further stinking the place up, is more dangerous to people and pets, and honestly isn't even nearly as effective as people would hope.

But roaches are simple and stupid. They're really easy to trap, and why the hell would I want them going back into the walls in the first place? Especially when I can just flush them instead?

This is my approach to fixing peeling shoe sole layers. I cleaned and even Dremeled the inside layers of rubber to help glue adhere, but I was like "How the hell should I apply pressure while glue dries?"...

So I figured I should easily be able to do that with some thumb tacks in the sides of the sole, and temporarily stitch it down with dental floss for a day or two while the glue dries.

Wish me luck, I used silicone glue. Not sure if that's the best glue or not for the purpose, but it's tough and flexible. Of course I did both shoes, just figured it would be more obvious what I did with one shoe showing the initial damage.

Anyways, thumb tacks and dental floss for the win to hold it together while it dries!

Edit: Confirmed, my fix is solid, even holding better than the original factory glue! Haters gonna be haters though, carry on with your downvotes if you want. Just sharing my technique of salvaging shoes for less than $5 of glue and stuff around the house.

Don't leave your phone in the sun. Aside from the devastating heat, it'll also burn your camera out just like it will your eyes.

Don't depend on willpower. Lower (or increase) friction. If you have trouble with not eating cookies, increase friction by keeping them out of sight, or just don't keep them in the house. If you have trouble getting to the gym, reduce friction by getting everything ready the night before - put coffee or your workout drink in an insulated flask, have your gym clothes out (or sleep in them), etc. If you have trouble waking up in the morning, increase friction (for staying in bed) by moving your alarm clock to the other side of the room.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2869130

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2869129 > > > In the gaming world, there are "speedruns" which may attempt to make use of glitches or advantages in games to be able to complete them quicker. > > > > So it seems possible that in a similar way, we might try to find glitches or advantages in life to be able to accomplish things quicker. > > > > What are some of your top "life hacks" to "speedrun" through certain things in life? > > > > How could the concept of "speedrunning" be applied to life, and where shouldn't it be applied?