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[–] 1 point 1 year ago*

I got a cheap office chair when I moved out after college. It was like $15+20 and it's super comfortable and still use it daily over 10 years later.

It's just foam stapled to plywood but really good support.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    One way window heat shield. Reflects 85‰ of the UV back out. Sticks to the window using only water.

    Noticeable difference in temperature for any sun-facing windows

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I did this at my last House and it was fantastic.

    Just need to remember that once it's dark outside the reflective side "switches" and everyone can see clearly into the house.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How easy are they to cut to size, or if you need to use multiple to cover a window how does the gap/seam look? Have been thinking of getting them, but we also want to replace our windows at some point. I assume you can't just reuse them?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    At least in home depot, some of them come with a specific blade tool, or one that's not too much more expensive. It's hard/sharp enough to seamlessly cut through the tints, but not scratch your window.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Pretty easy to cut, but of course it'll never be perfect, and it's better to cut smaller than larger since it sticks to the window using water, and needs a complete seal, so any corners that overlap a frame will just slowly force the whole thing to peel off.

    Very easy to re-use, it sticks using water and requires a flat piece of card (e.g. an old credit card) to spread it out over the window

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are you using these on double glazed windows? I've read this film could get them to crack under the heat.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oh man, there's this German company Beurer that makes simple equipment for medical home application. They make this sort of zapper thing, which is battery oper and it just heats the shit out of a little ceramic plate. Put that on a bug bite, it heats away the irritation. No more itch, no more venom in your body, just gone.

    I am no longer careful around biting bugs. Keep in mind it's not supposed to work for stingers.

    I figured for 15 euros it'd be too bad if it doesn't work but I now can't imagine not having it.

    I've since also bought a TENS/EMS machine of theirs and a laser hair removal tool is underway for my wife.

    I completely trust this company based on just two products.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh wow, there's a product out there? I've been heating the back of a spoon on the stove and applying it directly to the skin for a minute all these years. You gotta do it carefully, but it works very well!

    NerdageThe mechanism relies on denaturing the mosquito proteins injected with the bite. Meaning the heat causes the proteins to loosen up and deform so they no longer interact with the surrounding tissues in the same way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't have a device for this, but I do the same thing by running water as hot as I can stand over bites and it works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I use the hottest running water and also scrub it with soap to get as much as possible off.

    I've also used a hair dryer to heat the bites up but you have to be careful not to hold it too close to the skin and burn yourself. I'm very reactive to bug bites and I seem to get a million bites within seconds of going outside.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    A roll of really heavy duty velcro. The kind that can, for example, stick a sledge hammer to a wall. It's about $12 for 5 feet or so, and about a 1" piece is sufficient for most tasks, so it lasts a very long time. I use it for all kinds of stuff; it's amazing how many uses for it you find when you have it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What kind of uses did you have for it?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    A lot of small things. I have some velcro on the wall in few rooms that I can stick a tablet to, for example. I've got velcro holding down a few items on my desk - a USB hub, speakers and the like, that I want to move sometimes, but that were commonly getting knocked off (by the cat). I've got a small whiteboard and a few places I can stick it, so I can use it to sketch something up and take it with me to our workbench, for example, and not have to precariously balance it.

    All things that could be solved with other solutions, obviously, but the heavy duty velcro just happens to be a one-size-fits-all solution that leaves no permanent marks and is very convenient to set up.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have a IKEA pergola on my backyard and I've been trying to come up with a way to attach some plastic paneling on top of it without drilling. This might be it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Most common adhesives will be less effective under hot (ie sunlight) conditions.

    If you don’t need it to come off, 3Ms GPH (General Purpose High-temp) VHB tape. 50% of your car is probably held together by it.

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    That's pretty funny. Unfortunately for them, I and probably almost everyone else don't really care about their brand identity, so I'll keep calling it all velcro. I'll also keep call all tissues Kleenex, and all adhesive bandages Band-Aids, and all the others that have become synonymous with their product. That's what they get for being too successful, I guess.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Kleenex, tissue. Band aid, bandage. Xerox, copy. IPad, tablet (some people call their android tablets iPads) Plucker, flosser.

    It's not really that bad. Some are even shorter:

    Google, search. Invisalign, retainer.

    Some are iffy:

    Sharpie, permanent marker. (You could just say marker, depending on if you have any other markers in the house to disambiguate from.)

    And some are definitely shorter as brand names:

    Q-tip, cotton swab Velcro, hook and loop Sawzall, reciprocating saw

    (And if there was a shorter name for "oscillating multi tool" I would be so happy.)

    I can't think of any others.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How do you get the velcro to stick to the wall so you don't rip it off if it's so strong? (And no, don't just say more velcro!)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It's velcro all the way down!

    It sticks with adhesive, and I don't doubt it would rip wallpaper right off, but using adhesive remover before trying to pull it off lets you work it off slowly and not cause damage to paint or surfaces.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Last time I did install work we used double sided Velcro for cable management. I snagged a roll and made a jig to split it in half with a box knife to get twice as much and I've still got a ton left over a decade later. It's really handy stuff to have around and better than zip ties in most applications I use it for.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I bought a reusable tote for like $3 in the section at the front of Target where they stick all the cheap stuff. It looks like it's made of woven burlap. It says "Going to Market" on the sides. It's shorter than the standard reusable tote, but a reasonable width.

    I bought it on a whim and thought it would sit in my trunk after I forgot about it. I use it all the time, and I've gotten a ton of compliments on it at checkouts of various stores.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I knew I wouldn't regret starting to use user notes.Demonstration of user note reminding me that I share a fandom with this user

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    User notes? What are these, and how would I go about using them?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    As for what they are, the green text in my screenshot.

    How depends on how you access Lemmy. In my client, Connect, I expand a comment, tap the three dots to the right of it, and click "add user note."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    I've never been so proud of a title!

    It's great that you got it working; hopefully it serves you well. I've primarily used it to mark people who aren't worth an argument to me ("argues in bad faith") and people with whom it's extra worth engaging ("seems clever, " "shares a fandom," in a few rare cases just their first name to make it stand out if it's a friend but I didn't notice the username).

    Tbh I've only got, like ... Five user notes.

    edit: One more now!

    Note for user "zurchpet" that teases about the content of their note on me

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Aww, sadly I’m iOS and not Android, so I can’t use Connect nor I guess user notes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I can't comment on your particular client, but I suspect most of them should support it in some form.

    It looks like Thunder is available for Android and iOS. I dont really use it but I do have it installed, so I took a look. It has a "user label" function that looks pretty similar and is added through the same basic process.

    Note that I am very much not an expert on Lemmy and even less so on anything Apple, but I bet a way can be found! And if not you always have the option of submitting a feature request to the developer of whatever app you do use.

    Good luck!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Its incredibly useful. Kind of interesting to recognize an unhinged jackass from one thread being normal a week later.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's too bad I don't have a note about you, because I feel like that would make this more contentious but probably interesting.

    If I were going to make one about you, and you were as honest as you think you can be, what do you think it would say? I haven't looked at your post history and I don't remember your username from elsewhere (sorry), so I'm genuinely curious how you'll choose to represent yourself.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Metal Chopsticks $9 https://www.amazon.com/BamLue-Stainless-Chopsticks-Dishwasher-Restaurant/dp/B07RTNWLM1 These are no longer for sale. They are not just for eating. Great for deseeding jalapenos, tomatos. Mixing small sauces. Too many uses to list. They are super durable. Very 'buy it for life' vibes. The tip texture is the most helpful. Not to be used as Ninja weapons.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Chopsticks are also nice to mix fluids in a bottle because for some they are long enough
    I also started eating potato chips with them, can reach deeper in + clean hands

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I do those things as well. I have some metal deep frying ones, they are about 14" long. I use them a lot when stirring deep soup pots. And when they are dirty, I use the fat end to swish the dish sponge around in deep containers that my had can't fit in.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    An Aeropress. I bought it when work removed the free coffee and was super surprised at how good it tasted vs what they were serving. Later, I found a bean hand grinder that fits right inside the Aeropress plunger and now I take it on work trips, vacation and camping.

    It's not fully inclusive for $20 because you need a cup, some way to procure and heat water and beans but still, it's served me well.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn’t buy an aeropress for years as I had a coffee machine and was like, surely that’s better.

    But finally got one, and my god. The simplicity. The ease of cleaning. The nice coffee.

    It’s basically my sole way of making coffee now, despite more pricey alternatives at my disposal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I find a good pour over cone makes better tasting coffee with a little less fuss, but the aeropress is irreplaceable for iced coffee.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've found that it tastes kinda plasticky compared to my glass French press. Am I aeropressing wrong?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have an old one, maybe they were manufactured differently. The main part is a hard plastic. I never noticed a plastic taste, but it could also be the rubber/silicone plunger stopper that imparts a taste. They do now sell a glass one, but I've heard that it's overpriced.

    I know people who also swear by their French press. From what I know, regardless of the brew method, the grind is the most important factor, followed by the water quality and temperature.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If its made before 2009 its likely not BPA free and you should consider upgrading to a modern one. I think the plastic was changed again around 2014. Mine is from that time period and doesnt have an after taste either.

    As well as the glass one you can get one made of tritan, which would be my pick over the glass as its mostly the same look, a lot cheaper, and pretty much unbreakable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is it an authentic aeropress, not a cheap knockoff? There are a bunch that sell under the same name but aren't in fact manufactured by aeropress ltd., and those can taste off since the cheap plastic is not certified for use with boiling water, and might not even be bpa free.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's Aeropress™ and purchased from a reputable roaster. I suppose it's unknowable to me if some shenanigans were pulled further up the supply chain.

    I'll add that the thing I noticed is that it tastes plasticky if I use water at 205°F but not 185°. I prefer the hotter temp because I think it gives a better extraction, and I need the caffeines.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A Victorinox Swiss army knife. Bought it used for 10€, and it has everything from a very good blade to screwdrivers, a bottle opener, pen and tweezers. Always in my pocket in case I need it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's weird, but despite owning a couple of nice pocket knives, I almost never have actual use for them. My tactical torch though, is freaking amazing, and given my shitty old eyesight, I use it every day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One of those tiny sd ones? I have a couple and love them. I carry a skeletool cx now but if I had to carry only the little victorinox I wouldn't complain.

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