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Basically we got a lot of peeps here that speak their mind and think outside the box.
So what kind of cool, interesting, helpful or just autistic tips do you have for each other?

Here are some I've used as of late:

Getting free stuff with expensive stuff:

Some salespeople lose commission if you return an item so what I did was just get cozy with the salesperson, really get them hyped of for the sale but continuously remind them that this is a "spur of the moment" buy that you might return if you don't like it. Ask a lot of questions and make it seem like you dont know much about the product even if you do. Then, instead of trying to push down the price, find something that goes well with the product and ask them if you can get it for free or with a big discount since you're gonna need it for this other item. The salesperson will be motivated to do that, not only to get you to buy the item you're in there to get but to make you feel like you're committed to the deal since you got something for free.

It's kinda like reverse psychology. But benefiting the consumer instead of the salesperson.
It works better if the salespersons commission is dependent on you not returning the item but it helps otherwise as well, as long as you don't commit to the buy before you get it the free item.


Want free software and discounts and live in Europe where college is free?

Register to a course where there's not a lot of people, so you don't take up space for someone that really wants to go that course.
Don't or do complete it, that's up to you. But you'll get tons of free software through your university and great discounts as a student. One university just seems to keep me as a perpetually registered student nowdays so I have free software forever it seems. Also a great way to get free access to academic journals and magazines, so that those big technocrats dont get to hoard all that knowledge themselves.
An alternative for that by the way is https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/.
Aaron Swartz might be turning in his grave seeing what they are doing to his Reddit but at least he might smile a little bit knowing that this exists.

Want to watch Youtube without being asked to buy their shitty premium service or be forced to sit through the same damn commercial for the 10th time in a hour?

As many have noticed, You Jewtube is now detecting adblockers aggresively.
To get around that problem, at least for now, use this (https://video.link/, https://freetubeapp.io/) or similar free link converters or host your own little forum, website or discordserver somewhere where you just post embedded links of the videos you want to watch.
 
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Here is a simple recipe I came up with for grilled chicken legs that has never let me down:

-Build a large charcoal fire on on side of a Weber kettle. Use a mix of lump and briquette charcoal (but no lighter-fluid or self-starting).
-Place chicken legs (12-15) on indirect heat and season one side with garlic salt and Cajun seasoning (homemade mix is best if you want to keep an eye on salt)
-Close kettle but keep vent holes open on top and bottom. Make sure the top holes are on the chicken side and not the charcoal side.
-After 15 minutes, turn and season the other side. Add dry hickory chips to the charocal and put the lid back on. Make sure the vents are arranged as in the previous step.
-Continue to turn 15 minutes until done. I usually go for 165F with larger legs but you can remove them at 155F and the residual heat will finish them. This is better for smaller legs. I'd recommend a meat thermometer in most cases but I usually don't need one now.

Total cook time: ~45 minutes to 1 hour

You can also brine or marinate them beforehand if you want but I've found the low temperature, dry seasonings and smoke up front help prevent losing any of the moisture.

Best with some grilled Brussels sprouts and macaroni and cheese.
 
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If you're booking a flight, you can get it for cheaper if you make it one leg in a longer itinerary. If you make it a layover to destination 2 out of 4, then cancel the other flights, you get a cheaper price for the one ticket.

For example, if you want to fly from Chicago to Orlando, you can schedule flights from Minneapolis to Chicago, Chicago to Orlando, Orlando to Puerto Rico, then just keep the Chicago to Orlando ticket.
 
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Chongqing said:
If you're booking a flight, you can get it for cheaper if you make it one leg in a longer itinerary. If you make it a layover to destination 2 out of 4, then cancel the other flights, you get a cheaper price for the one ticket.

For example, if you want to fly from Chicago to Orlando, you can schedule flights from Minneapolis to Chicago, Chicago to Orlando, Orlando to Puerto Rico, then just keep the Chicago to Orlando ticket.
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That's interesting! How do you do that in practice? I mean I use these websites that compare flight tickets online and even on most carriers where I'm at they usually select the cheapest/fastest ticket and route for that particular trip, ignoring other potential trips you might buy. Do you call the carriers/speak with their reps?!

For example: Skyscanner
 
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For those who use Steam, your opsec may be at risk even if your profile is private.

If you add /screenshots at the end of a profile URL, you can navigate to a user's screenshot page even if they have a private profile. Any public screenshots will be visible. To fix this, just make sure your individual screenshots are not set to public. When uploading any new screenshots to Steam, make sure the privacy setting is on anything but public.

This is also useful for doxing purposes, as you could snoop through screenshots that a user might have thought are now entirely private. You can access other out-of-view subpages of a Steam profile in this same manner.

Special thanks to @DOORSTUCK for teaching me this one recently.
 
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Sexy Senior Citizen said:
It is entirely possible to make your own guns out of things you can buy at a hardware store. Bear in mind these homemade guns are weapons of last resort, and you really shouldn't be making guns out of pipes. You should do something productive, like doxing lolcows or eating your veggies.
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Perfectly cooked bacon:
- Pre-heat oven to 375.
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Lay bacon strips on the sheet.
- Cook for 13 to 20 minutes, depending on your crunchiness preference.

Easy cleanup and no need to flip.
 
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Things are never as good as you'd want nor as bad as you fear. The reality lies somewhere in the middle.

Always takes longer to get out of a tough time than it did to get into it.

The following were told to me, and make sense. First, nobody else thinks like you do. Second, everyone is either getting ready to go through tough times, going through tough times, or has just gotten out of tough times.
 
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Chongqing said:
If you're booking a flight, you can get it for cheaper if you make it one leg in a longer itinerary. If you make it a layover to destination 2 out of 4, then cancel the other flights, you get a cheaper price for the one ticket.

For example, if you want to fly from Chicago to Orlando, you can schedule flights from Minneapolis to Chicago, Chicago to Orlando, Orlando to Puerto Rico, then just keep the Chicago to Orlando ticket.
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If you're a frequent flyer don't do this often with the same company, it's called skiplagging and they'll flag you in their system for it.
 
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Kiwiballs said:
That's interesting! How do you do that in practice? I mean I use these websites that compare flight tickets online and even on most carriers where I'm at they usually select the cheapest/fastest ticket and route for that particular trip, ignoring other potential trips you might buy. Do you call the carriers/speak with their reps?!

For example: Skyscanner
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I think there's specific websites that help you do it. It's called skiplagging.
 
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I think there's specific websites that help you do it. It's called skiplagging.
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Googled but it just looked like a skin for Skyscanner, lol. PM/Write here if you have any you'd recommend. A lot of articles on it though, seems doable!
 
If you're a US homeowner, your local county or city likely has a property tax web portal where anyone can look up your name and street address. Most portals make it easy to opt-out from displaying this information publicly. Scraping these portals is a big part of how sites like Spokeo and WhitePages gather your personal dox.

There are private businesses you can employ, usually via monthly subscription, to file all the necessary takedown requests with Spokeo and other similar dox sites. DeleteMe is a good one. You probably only need to subscribe for a month or two for these takedown requests to take more-or-less permanent effect, assuming you scrubbed the original sources of this data like the above.
 
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You don't need a new car. You don't even want a new car. Stop letting your brain try and rationalize why you need to spend $40,000-80,000 on transportation. Buy a $500-2500 beater that isn't too rusty and throw parts at it. You will never spend more than a sixteenth the price of a new car to repair a beater to a reliable state, if you know what you're looking at.

"But muh reliability!", you say. New cars are not reliable. Build quality is worse than it has been since the Oil Crisis. Recession-era cars aren't even close to how chintzy the 2024 model year is. ALL South Korean cars are defective. MOST Fords and Chryslers are defective. GM is moderately okay, but still worse than they were even 10 years ago. European cars are difficult to work on, their parts are expensive, and in a year you're going to have to redo all of that work anyway. I drive a $500 52 year old Ford I pulled out of a wheat field and spent maybe $80 on ebay to get it running again. It has been my daily driver since 2019. If I need something for that car, I can go to AutoZone and spend the $20 for a readily available, off-the-shelf part that is still being used in commercial vehicles to this very day. You can't even get rear brake lines for a 2008 Chevy Equinox anymore. Modern cars are designed explicitly to fail. The parts are one-off for that vehicle. Do you really think they're gonna support that forever? Do you think any new car is going to have an aftermarket that will take care of you? Fuck no, everything made today is forgettable, disposable, garbage that nobody would honestly bother to keep running. Do you believe that in 100 years, you're going to find a 2014 Chevy Sonic in an automotive museum? That's the line of thought that you should use for buying a car. Buy something that has parts that will be made for the rest of your life.

"But I just want something nice!" You have 130 years of Automotive Industry back catalogue to pick from. Go buy a nice car, it doesn't have to be new. You could spend a mere $15,000 for a frame-off restoration classic these days. In fact, new cars aren't even nice. They're Happy Meal Toys that cost several times more than their constituent parts. You can't get true leather seating anymore in most cases. You can get vinyl that's going to crack in the sun, or cloth that's going to turn brown from all of the yellow mustard ass smear from your trips to McDonald's. You could buy a 1987 Lincoln Town Car that will have more *genuine* creature comforts than any car currently on the market.

"I just want something safe!" Automotive safety is (mostly) a myth. Safety ratings are varied depending on the size and weight of a vehicle. If you get into a car accident in a brand new Smart Car or Mini Cooper, you're probably still gonna die the same as you would in an aircooled Volkswagen Beetle. The things that DID improve with time are things that the industry has had for over 40 years, like airbags, and shoulder straps on seatbelts. You're gonna be fine, just pick a form factor of car that has the best safety ratings, like a Minivan or an SUV. Even the ones from the 80s are about as safe as the ones that exist today. They had crumple zones too. Body-on-Frame vehicles are always going to be sturdier than unibody. While the initial impact in an accident with these vehicles will jar you around more, you have a MUCH smaller chance of metal bending into the passenger compartment versus a compact car.

"But I just want a car that nobody else has owned!" Ohh, so you're stupid, got it. Yeah, go buy a new car. You deserve it.

Cars are NOT an investment unless you are REALLY god damn sure of what you have. Even in the best case scenario the profit margin is going to be thin, unless you're sitting on a one-off Ferrari or handmade coachbuilt Italian Sports Car. I work with this twentysomething kid who is 125k in the hole in student loan debt. Do you know what this little retard did? He bought a 2022 top trim model Outback for 50,000. You could buy a house with this moron's debt. He just "wanted something reliable". So instead of learning how cars work, he bought a car from a brand whose engines are notorious for spontaneously detonating. Don't be this kid. I want to make this very clear. If you buy a new car, you are a FUCKING IDIOT. Fools and their money, lemme tell ya.
 
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