#protip

I do have a black cocoa powder in the cabinet, so I'll use that instead.

Also, #protip, don't line your mold with plastic wrap if you're going to pop yours into the freezer to set up. The wrap will tend to tear, leaving annoying little bits of plastic around that you'll need to pull off with tweezers. Nobody wants that, tbh.

#BikeTooter or #hiker tip:

I use Jonathan O'Keeffe's “GPX merge” online tool to merge up to 5 GPX files into one.

https://joewein.net/bike/gpxmerge/

#ProTip

Nicht vergessen, auch die Uhren in Euren Kameras auf #Sommerzeit umzustellen! Sonst meint der Apparat, es ist noch dunkler Winter und alles ist dann ab morgen überbelichtet. #Protip #Livehack

#ProTip: If someone gives you life advice, it’s best to check it’s not just a plot device from a movie that person had watched and liked.

Something I'm learning as I get a bit older: make notes/recipes for large, multi-step processes.

To whit, when I looked at my local instance of HexDescribe to generate the contents of a new area that the PCs are venturing into... and I had that "WTH DO I DO??? I FORGOT!" moment.

Now I have a text file in the same folder as the hex maps, explaining exactly WTH to do...

#TTRPG #OldAge #ProTip

#ProTip: if you toot successive sentences beginning "Potting up…" and "High time…" you might just gain some unexpected followers!
But anyway, time with a second extremely large whisky in hand, to sink like hot knives through butter into a piping hot bath!
And BTW, rest in power Martin Slavin, amongst other talents a gardener who knew his weeds.

https://kolektiva.social/@rooftopjaxx/114228486323577521

#ProTip do not put the Questionable Mozzarella in your breakfast burrito, the results are, uh, urgent.

#ProTip: If you change the number from which you text customers to something with no callerID in a different area code, you should NOT just send an initial message to all of your customers saying “$SERVICE is important, click here for an appointment" without any indication of who you are or why you're SPAMMING them. And when you get back foul-mouthed reponses, just accept that you fucked up.
In related news: I need to find a new dentist.

Mercilessly adding links I’m never going to look at again to OmniFocus so I can close the tabs before the weekend. #ProTip #Friday

#ProTip if you ever think using 2 day UPS shipping with shopbeam.com will be a faster way to get your order, think again…

…placed two orders last Friday and the one that is coming USPS is coming today…

…while the one coming UPS never left their warehouse and is "stuck in fulfillment process”…

…and to boot i was saddled with a customer service rep who is either dishonest or a moron or both…

…never will i ever try using 2 day UPS shipping again

Today's random baking #protip

If you want a shiny, crackly surface to your bread but have a hard/impossible time getting it (like I do, I have a gas oven and it's near-impossible) you can get one with a quick starch glaze. Mix flour and water in a 1:10 mix (1g flour per 10g water), nuke it for a few seconds and stir to properly gelatinize the starch, and brush it on the loaf before scoring and popping it in the oven.

You get a lovely, shiny crust. Mmmm, tasty.

#protip for academics: try singing your own new texts before publishing. If you cannot sing it, don’t publish it. Thank me later.

#AcademicChatter

#ProTip for self-care:

Take a deep breath.

Kick one pigeon as far as you can.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15txzbBP13/

#comedy

#Protip

Des années de télétaf comme support technique, voici une astuce très importante :
Que les gens vous voient ou pas, la pause c'est vital

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de dire avec naturel, sans se justifier, "Dans une/zéro minute je dois raccrocher, on se rappelle dans 5 ou 15 minutes"

Sinon jamais vous allez pisser.

Avec naturel : c'est naturel !

Si ce sont des correspondant⋅e⋅s réguliers que vous aimez bien, expliquez qu'iels peuvent aussi le faire, ça fait du bien de faire une pause !

@mellow Tijd voor een wandeling in het bos of aan het strand, je brein tot rust laten komen. #protip

#ProTip: if the Creepy Weirdos are congratulating you, you have fucked around, and are just waiting to find out.

#ProTip: if you have to use #Google (for $reasons ), add custom search engines to your web browser to avoid the #AIslop summaries at the top of the results page & / or to constrain to recent results only (to avoid irrelevant older info for technical queries, etc.)

Google doesn't let you disable "AI" () summaries unless you first log in to Google, so if you refuse to log in (or just don't have an account) then by default you're stuck with it

but wait! there's a solution (for now, at least)

for no "AI" () slop summaries but all results from the beginning of time, use: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

for no "AI" () slop summaries & only recent results, use: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+after%3A2023-12-31&udm=14

&udm=14 is the magic param that gets you web results without the garbage "AI" () summaries up front

after:2023-12-31 gets you results from 2024 onwards only (tweak as required)

in desktop browsers you can assign a shortcut to use in the search bar - I use [@]g for all results & [@]gn for recent results but you do you

(the [ ] here are just to prevent tagging in someone on masto, remove when you add the shortcut )

the %s syntax for query string works in Edge & Chrome (so it should work in any Chromium-based browser) as well as Firefox

Consider this a sign from above that you should follow my Pixelfed account. You can do it from the account you’re using right now. #Fediverse #ProTip

From: @PDSMIX@pixelfed.social
https://pixelfed.social/p/PDSMIX/806061208037992097

La Palma ahoy! Hned vedle naší noční zátoky marína. Zátoka ukázkové mírné a písčité dno. Námořnický #protip.
#kanárkovéPlachty

@mosgaard @amadeus if you just want distraction-free editing, you may want to look at #VScodium [1], #neovim [2] or even #NvChad [3] for editing depending on how you feel like and what suits you best.

I recommend using #Markdown for Text until you want to turn it into something printable (unless you know #LaTeX), but noone's gonna judge you if you prefer @libreoffice to get a script written.

If you want or need to switch computers rather often, consider buying a SATA (or NVMe) - SSD with DRAM-Cache and a matching external enclosure and install your #distro of choice on that instead, as unlike #Windows, basically all #Linux distros allow installations on external drives.
-Don't forget to use #FullDiskEncryption!

If you need to share your work with others or sync it across devices, consider @nextcloud / #nextcloud.

If you don't have any admin already in your organization.and it's permissible but you don't want to setup your own, consider @monocles / #monoclesOcean and @Stuxhost for a fully-managed Nextcloud at reasonable prices.

As for #audio I'm shure you know #audacity and #LMMS...

If you use the terminal rather often, consider setting up some nifty aliases to make things faster.

For example if you want to just check if something is reachable, i.e. internet / network connection works, consider adding function isup() { ping -a -b -c 1 -D "$@"; } to your .bash_aliases file in your $HOME directory so if you use i.e. isup duckduckgo.com it'll do a single run of ping to reach said domain/FQDN/IP...

But the final #ProTip I can give you is to #backup your $HOME-directory under /home/yourusername because in it's hidden subdirectories, espechally $HOME/.config/ are usually all the settings for your applications stored so in case you need to setup a new machine or restore one from backups, this is where all the minor changes of yours to make your system work best for you are being stored.

You may need to press Ctrl+H IN THE File Manager to see hidden files.
For backups, tools like #DéjàDup make it easy to setup, backup and restore your files as you want or need, including encryption and deduplication.

I hope that'll help you not only get started but also get the maximum efficiency out of your distro as a creative tool without fuss.

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