For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
Bitwarden.
I actually can’t understand how most people live without a password manager.
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I just give up after 3 tries and click “forgot password”.
It isn’t about the convenience of remembering passwords, it’s about changing all of your passwords to something unguessable, and having a different password for every individual website. Something like
sC6vht8q!J#yZgHfmUq9p#%V2GqFrv96Wqy@$BrNxmmdtLM^aUWrSSTTsYnnLac8C9YPN*bUZxVTqkmy6Y!5!pm9qE7BRJ9nE
Is impossible to remember, but it’s also impossible to brute force or guess.
This reminds me of a r/coolguides post on many different knots. I should find that one and start practicing.
Edit: I just found this website. It shows animated knots.
When I was in college I had zero knowledge of how to cook so I relied on what my mom packed me and takeaways.
I decided to learn how to make basic stuff, like pasta, eggs, baked potatoes, etc and it saved me tons of money.
I’m not a good cook by a long shot but I can feed myself and to this day I enjoy some quality time in the kitchen.
This also makes you good dating material, for anyone out there who could use the advice 😉
Pretty great 2nd date in my experience, not a great idea for an initial date unless you know the person ahead of time. But can pretty quickly reveal if they can cook too!
It’s crazy to me how people dont know this.
Cooking saves so much money, its incredible.
Try and find a cheap deal for a meal service like hellofresh or blue apron or any other service. I didn’t want to, but my spouse did. I’ve learned some good techniques and used ingredients I would not normally use. Don’t sign up long term, just get a box or two or whatever and cancel. Once you’ve learned your lesson you can extrapolate that.
I don’t buy personal electronics, phone cases, or other items in black if I have the option. Not quite as rigorously I’ve stopped buying black or dark clothing where possible. Decades of buying everything in black or darker shades as the default and at some point I realized it’s pretty damn bland and makes everything harder to find if lost.
I’ve done the same with a lot of “easy to lose” things; I’ll go for white or other bright colors so it’s easier to spot and harder to misplace or forget. I lost my water bottle the other day because it was nighttime and the bottle is black.
That’s actually a great example - my water bottle is so bright i looks like it should burn you if you touch it - and for exactly that reason. 😁
I buy all my electronics in black, because they can last decades and still look fine. Most white or colored stuff become yellowish with time.
I’m the opposite, I started buying everything in black. Makes choices easy and I don’t have to worry about matching colours or whatever lol
That was my logic too. Wait until you’ve been doing it for decades.
(In all seriousness it’s totally a personal preference, but I’m glad I stopped.)
Deleting my social media accounts, migrating from yahoo/google mail, using a password manager, using an ad blocker, frequent backups, all kinds of scripting automations for work, Plex, home automation, learning to fix stuff around the house by myself (some plumbing, some electrical, whatever is safe and easier - it’s hard to come by a good, available specialist these days).
In my experience, most of that is the opposite of making your life “easier,” but instead makes your life better in other ways at the expense of ease.
I mean a lot of the suggestions are do some work ahead of time to make everyday easier which is what I see now. maybe not the backups but that is more about reducing major grief in your life so ill allow it (but not op but love making pop culture references).
I travel with a work toolbox, among my stuff are drill bits and taps. I used to keep them all loose in a small container, and whenever I had to both drill a hole and tap it, I had to find the tap and then fish around for the correct but. Now I tie them together with elastic bands, so whenever I pick up a tap it has the correct bit attached.
Overstock.
Buy two bottles of cleaner. One in the kitchen, one in the bathroom. Tool box lives in the garage, but I have spares in the kitchen drawer. Trash can in every room. Extra shoelaces sitting on the shoe rack. It doesn’t take up a lot of space and it makes life much easier when you don’t have to look for something.
You sound like someone who has never lived in a small space.
it depends. I live in a studio, I still have a kitchen trash and bathroom trash, paper towels and cleansers in both. it’s just easier knowing I’ll always have quick access to clean up a mess. like cat vomit.
ideally I’d also have a flashlight and first aid kit stashed in both places, but those have been less necessary and so fell off the critical re-supply list.
Extra shoelaces? I don’t remember ever needing extra shoelaces ever in my life.
This is such a generational thing. My parents and grandparents would get shoes and have them resoled periodically. With a little care, a pair of shoes were expected to last decades. You used to see shoe repair shops in every neighborhood. I can’t remember the last time I brought a pair of shoes that could be resoled.
Shoes that can be resoled are way, way more expensive than shoes that can’t be. (See also Sam Vimes’ “boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness)
I’m currently wearing a pair of boots manufactured in 1982. They where my grandfather’s. I’ll have them repaired for as long as I can find a cobbler to do it. New laces on occasion and shoe polish every few months.
I disagree. I had a pair of cheap elastic sided boots from Rivers resoled, and my partner once got new heels put on his worn down Kmart shoes. It is possible to get shoes cheaper than the cost of resoling them.
IIRC most cobblers will work on Birkenstocks.
The day when you will,you’ll see that this is really smart.
My work boots typically go through 2-3 sets of laces over their lifespan.
Adding to this buy extra phone chargers for your work desk, car, suit case, and sofa so most any time you have a charger and cable ready to go.
How could I forget that??
I saw a video that opened my eyes to what I could do with plastic wrap in the context of food storage. Also freezing stuff. In general I feel like both help me keep my groceries fresher and also waste less.
Some examples. Sometimes you only need half of an onion. I used to use an entire zip lockbag or just put it in the fridge as is. This is such an obvious idea but now I just plastic wrap left over veggies and they stay super fresh. Plastic wrap can pretty much be used to create a near airtight bag of any shape and size.
Another example with freezers is sometimes I buy things like jalapenos and end up only using half of them and eventually have to throw the other half out. Again this is such an obvious idea in hindsight but now I just freeze the other half. They can pretty much stay fresh for months and I will end up figuring out another use for them in the meantime.
Both these ideas seem so obvious but for some reason didn’t really come naturally to me until I watched some cooking videos and found this is what some chefs do.
I tend to use glass jars for this. They are reusable and recyclable, you can see what’s in them, they protect what’s inside from getting crushed, and they’re free if you repurpose jars that food came in.
I do this to the point of preferring certain brands of things like pasta sauce and salad dressing because they use continuous thread lids (Mason jar style) instead of lug lids. (The sauce company disclaims against reusing their jars for canning, but I do it anyway and haven’t had a problem yet.)
I like standardizing on one specific lid type so that I can just throw them in a pile instead of having to keep lids matched with jars, and so that I can use various Mason jar-compatible accessories (e.g. a fermentation lid, an attachment for my vacuum sealer etc.) with them.
So you are telling me that you found the idea of using disposable plastic wrap instead of reusable zipbags revolutionairy? Huh, seems like a step back to me.
If you knew the absurd amounts of plastic wrap every restaurant goes through, you’d see the metre or 2 that this guy goes through a month for personal use is of negligable impact.
I know that they have a negligible impact. Still going from something reusable to something disposable seems like a step back to me.
Most people use zip locks disposably. If you look at it that way he’s reducing waste, not to mention this thread is about ease, not sustainability
I leave a roll of trash bags in the bottom of the trash bin, so it’s where I need it when I need it - instead of taking up place elsewhere or getting lost. I do this for all trash bins. In the kitchen, at the toilets, at work, in the garage etc.
Also, with all the different sorting these days, I’ve decided not to sort the plastic, paper, glass etc. at the source, but just use one big container for all the clean stuff. When it’s full, I’ll take it out and sort it at the actual trashcan outside which is the place where it actually needs sorting. There’s no need to keep 5 or more different trash containers under the kitchen sink to be emptied separately.
We do this for work trash but not for home trash
I leave a roll of trash bags in the bottom of the trash bin
That seems like it would work real well until one of the bags leaks gross stuff all over it.
Any gross stuff that could leak in my trash goes in the freezer, and stays frozen until trash day.
I like my freezer not to be full of garbage, plus it doesn’t freeze instantly, so could leak on my food in there. No thanks. Or do you have a dedicated garbage freezer?
Can confirm, visited someone who had exactly that happen while I was there. He was a bit flustered.
I set up nextcloud with CalDAV synchronisation and gave access to my wife. Now we have a shared calendar on all devices to plan our week.
As much as I love my own Nextcloud instance, I’m not sure that’s a “small thing” for most people. Also, now you have to secure it and keep it updated. I keep mine behind an Nginx reverse proxy and pass those logs to a small splunk instance with a dashboard to show me what’s hitting my server. With basically zero footprint, botnets and attackers have still found my server and are attacking it regularly.
Login to my server is only possible with my SSH key and a 2FA code.
The firewall drops all incoming connection attempts except from my home network.Is there anything else I should worry about?
Keeping it internal only keeps out a lot of the bad stuff. I actually have mine online, so tend to think in that mode.
The only recommendation I would make it, keep it updated. This goes for all software, you never know when a bug or vulnerability is going to turn into a bad day.
Fuckin game changer. Lowered my blood pressure LOL
Until the first few break down and you need to buy new ones, just to realize they are different from the ones you have by now (or discontinued outright).
Yep, I wish Darn Tough had socks that didn’t look like the ugliest mosaic ever.
They do have at least one style of solid color socks.
Bold of you to assume that folk care if their socks match
I did this too :D I used to have 20 pairs of non-identical black socks, which made matching hard and it felt wrong to wear socks of slightly different type or size. Much easier now
I keep getting socks for Christmas though, which I never wear cause they’d mess up the simplicity
I got rid of my cell phone. It ruins the point if you can’t use it while working, can’t use it while in a vehicle, can’t use it while sleeping, constantly have app issues, use it scarcely, and its usage is 90% car warranty. Not worth it, cannot emphasize that enough.
That is a different take from what I usually hear from people. Am I right in assuming that you are in a line of work that doesn’t require you to communicate that much.
But even so, how would you communicate with your family or loved ones if they ever have to be away from you for some time ?
I guess more people started using the so called ‘dumbphones’. Maybe owning something like that will the serve the purpose of occassional communication for you.
My work does include phones, just not cell phones, which also means I pay none of its bills. If anyone needed to communicate with me, there’s always what we’re doing right now.
I switched to a $20 feature phone years ago and been so much happier healthier.
I recently got a convertible standing desk thing, with a treadmill/walking pad for underneath. It has done wonders for my mental health while at work. Reading boring real estate contracts is a lot easier to get through when I’m standing up and moving instead of falling asleep in my chair while simultaneously destroying my back/posture.
Buy multiple chargers and charging cables for my devices. One on my nightstand, one on my desk, one in the living room and one in my work bag.
If it’s relatively cheap, buy multiples and spread them around so you’ll never have to look for it.
I prefer that minimalism
No I mean I prefer your solution / the EU solution
Get a bag of those as well if you think that helps! Make your life easier.
Just did this recently as well. This is the way.
I stopped listening to news radio in the morning. Music is the way to go to start the day.
Big feel you on this one. There was a while I would hate-listen to NPR on my drive and realized how badly that was making me shit my ass. One day, I was listening to ‘Lovely Day’ by Bill Withers with the windows down and an older lady started dancing while I was at a stoplight and blew me a kiss. Terry Gross not giving me nothing that compares to that…
