When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
Not really nonsense but in the winter to stay really warm in your bed, just lay a fleece blanket flat over the fitted sheet. Sleep directly on top of it with your usual blankets covering you. The fleece will radiate your heat, which will then get trapped by the top blanket keeping you much more insulated.
If you want to have a deep rejuvenating sleep, wake up for about an hour in the middle of the night after a few hours of sleep. Don’t do anything that will make you wide awake. Just chill out for an hour and then go back to sleep. The second period of sleep will be so much better than the first.
Throw a square of dark chocolate in chili next time you make it, at least 70% cocoa but the higher the better. Next time you make boxed Mac and cheese, add a dash or 2 of Worcestershire sauce to it. The best egg you’ll ever eat: 1 egg, 1 tbsp of mayo whisked together in a glass container or small bowl. Add 1tsp of butter on top and microwave for 40-60 seconds. You’ll be pissed off about how good it is.
Next time you eat Oreos and milk, put the Oreos in a bowl and pour the milk over them and eat them with a spoon like cereal. Next time you eat cupcakes, carefully break off half of the bottom and put it on top of the icing so it’s like eating a sandwich.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Britain.
If someone is about to sneeze, wait until they begin to inhale and say something unexpected to them and it will stop them from sneezing.
I told this to my wife and she scoffed and didn’t believe me. One day her allergies were kicking up and she started to sneeze. I waited for the right moment and said “GRAPEFRUIT” to her and… She didn’t sneeze.
The secret is timing it correctly.
Also, if you’re having trouble sneezing (starting but unable to fully sneeze), try looking at a light source when you start sneezing. Conversely, looking away from a light might help you not sneeze as well, but it isn’t much of a guarantee.
That’s true!
It’s the reason why you tend to sneeze after coming out from watching a movie and it’s still light outside. From what I have read, it’s a reflex to give your eyes time to adjust to the brighter lighting conditions.
This can work on yourself too if done right
cook bacon in water.
don’t drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time.
I just cook mine in the oven. Perfect crispy bacon every time.
Can confirm. This works amazingly well.
Alright! I’ll try that soon.
If you’re walking with an open container of liquid that’s filled so full it’ll spill, purposefully avert your gaze from the liquid sloshing as you’re walking.
Getting nervous that you’ll spill, will cause you to spill.
An easy trick to immediately get a better posture when walking is to pretend that you have laser cannons attached to your nipples and you are trying to zap people you meet in their faces.
Ah so you’re saying that good posture is ultimately down to whether your nipples are pointing at peoples faces? But that doesn’t work for people with really large breasts, right?
Love this one !
On August 27 2031 make sure you turn left instead of right. You’ll know when I mean.
TYVM
Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.
Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.
Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.
Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.
YMMV
Something like 20 years ago now, my pack-a-day wife decided to try a vaper. Not clouds-of-vape, just a pedestrian vaper.
She never went back to cigarettes. She decreased the nicotine and nowadays vapes maybe 2-3 times per day, I think her current level is 6… whatever units of nicotine, it’s not a lot.
I don’t care that she still vapes at that level. If there is anything bad, it’s not much at that rate, so screw it.
smoker in my early 20s and this advice might change my life.
Honestly, quit as soon as you can. After the two week mark, you’ll start smelling things again. At the one month mark, you’ll notice that you’re not constantly out of breath. Cravings still occasionally happen, but it shifts from “god damn it I need a donut right now” to “hmm a donut sounds good right now… But I don’t wanna bother with going to the donut shop.” The cravings never fully vanish, but they definitely change and become easier to dismiss as a passing whim.
I realized it was causing a lot of anxiety for me. Easy quit after that because the reward was less anxiety after a few days.
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you can avoid sneezing and convert it into a cough by opening your mouth and forfully coughing, better than having snot fly all over.
You can just press your finger firmly on your philtrum (the little valley between your nose and lips). Pressure on the nerve that runs there immediately stops the urge to sneeze.
Using my tongue for this does the trick and no one notices anything.
Pressing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth can prevent sneezing.
You can also avoid sneezing by forcefully keeping your eyes open
Hiccups: repeat in your head “I don’t have hiccups, hiccups don’t exist”. Repeat these phrases a few times and the hiccups should be gone.
It has worked everytime since I learned this a couple of years ago.
Drink more water. Eat more fiber.
Yeah if you like poop and pee
Go on…
“if”
“like”
“poop”
“you”
Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.
No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.
I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don’t even miss anything. If you’re struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.
Yes, eliminating an excess of calories is a good way to lose weight. Don’t think this is sarcasm, this is AWESOME and I’m glad that’s all it took for you - or at least that was a good contributing factor.
The only thing I would say: Don’t drink calories. i.e. I assume you meant regular soda and juice you were drinking. Milk is in that category as well.
Coffee, tea, diet soda, crystal light or any packet you put in a bottle of water - look for the things with basically zero calories, and that should be what you drink most of the time.
For those that are worried about things like caffeine being diuretics and dehydrating you: Coffee and tea and diet soda are NEARLY as hydrating as plain water. It’s not a large difference.
If you can drink plain water, great! If you need a bit of flavour to help? That’s also fine - the important bit is not drinking calories.
I mean, you can also get some taste in your water by drinking tea.
If I wanted it to taste bad and bitter, sure.
/c/ShitUSiansSay
Tea (black and green) is only bitter if you don’t know how to make it. Get good quality tea leaves (not the ones in the bags, they are usually the worst quality) and look up what temperature the water needs to be for your kind of tea. Usually around 70-80°C for green tea and 80-90°C for black. Especially green tea is only bitter if you prepare it with boiling water.
Btw, if tea is too bitter for you, rooibos might fit better. Plus there are all kinds of herbal ‘teas’, or rather mixtures, that don’t contain tea proper — at least where I live. Although tea itself has barely any bitterness if you use a smaller dose of green tea, or something like white tea.
Of herbal or aromatic teas, you might want to choose those with berries or flowers, since they impart some sweet flavor, but still far from the sweetness of fizzy drinks. A bonus benefit is that there are a lot of different flavors. One should take from life all that it has, after all.
bro doesn’t know how to put sugar in their tea
Don’t put sugar in your tea - don’t drink calories.
If sweetening with artificial sweeteners tastes “bitter”, try a trick: Use packets of multiple types - one “equal”, one sucralose, one stevia, for example. You get the sweetness from each and not enough of the background bitterness (which is different).
That’s the main reason Coke Zero is pretty good as compared to Diet Coke - different formula, but they use two artificial sweeteners and get that affect - sweetness from two sources with half the bitterness (since each is different).
Oh no! Not the 48 calories! In my 0.7 giant fucking mug of tea! My diet is ruined!
Like, seriously?
You understand that most of the beverages are far less calorie-dense than your average snack, meal, or whatever, right? And that our stomach capacity is limited? Once you drink enough of even the sweetest tea, you won’t have the room for anything more dense for some time.
Do what works for you.
If I put sugar in it, I might as well be drinking soda and juice again.
HOW MUCH SUGAR ARE YOU PUTTING IN YOUR TEA!?!?!?
ENOUGH THAT I CAN USE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PANCAKE SYRUP IN A PINCH IF NECESSARY!!!
While most probably would be okay with hydrating more, do be careful:
- The “eight glasses per day” thing was made up whole cloth
- The advice I’ve heard is that for MOST people, drink when you are thirsty.
But if you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong because you feel a little bad, or have a headache, or are sleepy, or feel like you might be hungry but think you shouldn’t be, or any number of other situations - drinking a glass of water usually doesn’t hurt, and does sometimes turn out to have been the issue. So it’s rarely terrible advice.
(Unless you’re on dialysis like me and have fluid restrictions) :)
In a financial negotiation, avoid saying a number first, even if it seems like you’re being rude, just say stuff like “what’s your budget” instead. This trick sounds really stupid but somehow it is extremely effective.
The most annoying response when trying to get a price from someone
Absolutely. And in a more general sense, whenever negotiating with businessmen, tell yourself they’re nasty rotten pirates beforehand and throughout the process. Visualise them having peglegs, hooks, eyepatches and battered old sea hats. Do NOT give in, do NOT name that number before they do.
I prefer to think of it like a competitive game; you’re trying to win and you aren’t going to go easy on anyone, but you still treat your adversaries with as much empathy and respect as that allows.
I took a community college class on business negotiations. I learned about BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and it’s been extremely helpful as a tool for negotiations. It’s setting a baseline and reduces any emotional toll.
Tl;Dr: define your BATNA before any negotiation. For example: say you know your salary industry standard is at $80k. You receive an offer for $70k, politely see if they have wiggle room for more, based on industry standard. If they come back with $75k, your plan is clear. In this negotiation, your BATNA is to walk away - no hard feelings.
When I sold my car, I set my BATNA to $9k, and put it for sale at $11k. The guy immediately tried to haggle and offered $10k. I shook his hand immediately and sold it.
It doesn’t have to be a hard number either. Like comparing benefits or perks.
I guess that could make sense if there is such a narrow range of possible outcomes and everyone has some clear objective idea of a baseline, but I’ve gotten freelance gigs where I would have been willing to do it for say $X, but was offered like $3X and was very happy to have kept my mouth shut and not talked numbers at all before that point. If I hadn’t I think I might not have gotten the job at all because the price being lower than the expectation would have made the client worried about the quality of the work, and even if I did get it that would have made them less satisfied with the deal.
As for your other comment, it’s not always true that combativeness will make people less satisfied with a transaction. I remember a particular situation where I was negotiating with another freelancer who was obviously also purposely avoiding saying a number, and I ended up caving when it got truly absurd and cited some past payments to use as a reference point. I was personally more satisfied with the deal because he did that, because it increased my respect for him; we were going to be working together and it was nice to feel that I could trust him to not be a pushover in general.
This is why I have doubts about Macklemore’s business acumen:
I went to the moped store, said “Fuck it”
And salesman’s like “What up, what’s your budget?”
And I’m like “Honestly, I don’t know nothing about mopeds”
I suppose at least he doesn’t immediately answer about the budget, but it still seems like a less than stellar negotiating technique.
That’s great until the other person is also doing it haha
A good negotiation is about making sure both parties feel satisfied by the end of the transaction!
If the other side was already combative, then that’s a negotiation you should walk away from.
Switch to linux
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
Switched to codeberg as well. Microsoft owns github
git.gay for the win!!
Went to try three distros (Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu) all three either failed on boot (even just in the “try” state) or really really did not like my graphics card (Battlemage).
Could I go through and start troubleshooting, tweaking settings, making sure everything is configured correctly? Yes…. But after wasting a few hours just trying to get something to boot, “it just works” with Windows looks better all the time. I’m too old to want to jailbreak and tinker with shit.
Windows really hasn’t been the “it just works” option for a while. It’s just the option that you’ve gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I’ve tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.
Like others have said though, you’re using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they’re made for gaming. They’re both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don’t need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.
One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren’t on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you’ll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don’t remember). It’s something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.
All of these distros use an old ass kernel that might not support your hardware. Distros like Fedora and Arch (don’t use arch btw) use newer kernels and are more likely to support newer hardware.
Unfortunately Mint and Ubuntu (and maybe Zorin too, I don’t know about this one) stay on older kernels on purpose to maintain stability, and new hardware requires new kernels. Not only that, but mesa should also be ad updated as possible. I would normally not recommend this to someone who’s starting, but maybe give Manjaro a try. Maybe Bazzite is a better idea though, although I have never personally used it.
The reason why I don’t usually recommend Manjaro to people is that it’s bleeding edge, and that can cause problems. But in your case currently your hardware requires bleeding edge. Otherwise in a few months Ubuntu 26.04 should be released and I expect it will support your GPU better.
How is Battlemage. I’ve been thinking about getting a replacement for my Alchemist card. It’s mostly transcoding but it’s always nice to have backup hardware in these days.
i feel like in general there’s not usually much of a reason to upgrade after a single generation, regardless of the vendor, unless you have some very specific circumstances
yes, the b580 is good, but it’s not that good
I have a B580 and frankly it’s perfect for what I want. I run my games at 1440p and generally can get 60-90fps (depends if it supports XeSS 2). E33 was a decent benchmark and it passed just fine. I normally play slightly older games so it suits my needs.
As for transcoding, it can seriously knock it out. H.264 QSV with an RF of 22 on a 1080p stream averages 315fps. H.265 is a bit slower but still faster than realtime. It really is a transcoding powerhouse there.
The only software holding me back is Adobe Premeire Pro; I’ve looked at the Linux alternatives and one of them has a windows 3.11 interface (KDEVine I think).
I’m still open to suggestions.
If it’s only one software you can test if it works on wine.
You could try Davinci Resolve. It’s great, professional-grade software, runs natively on Linux, and has a very generous free version and an inexpensive, one-time purchase studio version.
Will it work with wine?
I personally just went with blender sequencer because it is free softare though quite basic. Nuke might be a paid option. It is node based tho.
I don’t see what drinking has to do with anything but I’ll try.
Red or white? /s
I really want to and was mostly Windows free for most of 2025 but I can’t get my new graphics card to perform well in either kubuntu or mint. Games that will run on ultra at over 100fps in Windows will get 60-80fps on medium-high settings on kubuntu. A tear runs down my cheek every time I see people say they got performance increases from switching. Even my old hardware performed slightly worse.
Linux performance improvements are most noticeable on lower end hardware, at the higher end performance VS windows is usually pretty random from what I’ve seen.
That kind of makes intuitive sense, to me.
Early in the life of a piece of hardware, there’s lot of attention from individuals and companies.
Late in the life of a piece of hardware, only individuals still care about it.
Corporate OSes add changes over time to make old hardware worse off, while open OSes add fixes to support it.
Yeah, Linux generally supports older hardware for much longer, but it’s not only that. Linux devs are fairly attentive about performance, clean code, consistent frameworks, etc, meanwhile Microsoft is out there making random OS components in React just because it’s a little easier. From what I’ve heard the culture there is to not care about how something is done as long as it works.
Ubuntu and its derivatives are very slow with updates because they’re more focussed on stability. Because of this, your graphics drivers are likely wildly out of date. And if you’re using an Nvidia GPU, you’re better off going with a distro that has the graphics drivers built in.
I recommended going for a distro based on Fedora like Bazzite or Nobara. Fedora only lags a couple weeks behind updates for testing and QA, unlike the months/years you get on Ubuntu. Plus the 2 distros I mentioned have built-in Nvidia graphics drivers
I’m running an AMD GPU (9070XT) specifically because I knew it was meant to work nicer with Linux than my 1080 did.
I might give some other distros a try when I’ve got the time. It’s a shame, I really liked kubuntu. (I know I can configure most distros to do the things I liked about kubuntu but I’m not the most knowledgeable when it comes to that kind of thing.)
Running a 9070xt on cachyOS, works great
If memory serves you basically need the kernel release and stuff from like, December 2025? Somebody can correct me if that’s inaccurate.
I just installed CachyOS based off this recommendation, and performance is absolutely terrible right after installing. Do I need to install any drivers or change settings? Everything I see says that the drivers are baked into the kernel. But I am getting <50FPS with extreme stutters running the same settings I had on all the other OS’es I listed.
Drivers should be baked into the kernel, yeah, assuming the latest version was installed and regular updates ran after install to make sure all is up to date
Only extra thing I installed was the command that gave me steam and all the related gaming stuff, was a single line with gaming meta in it iirc.
What were you trying to test and on what resolution?
The game I’ve been playing lately is the Oblivion remaster. I know the game is known to have subpar performance, but in Windows with ultra settings and RT set to low I get 130+ FPS outdoors and 180+ indoors, in kubuntu I was getting ~60-80 outdoors and ~100 indoors, CachyOS got me 80 indoors and 50 outdoors with extreme stuttering.
All running on my 3440x1440 144hz monitor.
I just installed Bazzite, we’ll see how that plays.
I’m running an AMD GPU (9070XT)
Yeah, the newer card likely doesn’t have drivers added to the kernel version that Kubuntu uses yet
If it helps, Bazzite and Nobara have options to install with KDE Plasma included
When you sprain your ankle, DON’T MOVE. I used to try and walk it off because that’s what everyone does and even coaches recommend it, but that’s when the actual damage is done.
Spraining is usually just your tendons/ligaments going into emergency mode (getting very short/tight). So if you try to walk while they are still tight, they will actually tear, doing damage that takes weeks to heal. If you instead just keep that ankle perfectly still for like 30 seconds to 2 min, the ankle will be completely fine.
Trick is, you have to overcome the social pressure to hurry it along (i.e. on a hike at work, or on a sport field).
I rolled my ankle, damaged the arch of my foot and rode my bike home because I couldn’t walk. I didn’t really have a good support system to say the least and had to rely on myself. I have a slight limp now. Definitely listen to this advice. Dr was facepalming so hard when I told him what I’d done.
I broke my ankle, didn’t realize it was broken, and tried to twist it back into place and stand on it. Twice.
My doctors all had things to say about that, too. As well, like you, I have a pronounced limp after walking more than a few steps.
My ankle hurts just reading this 😖
Mine, too!
Yeah, if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do … Most of what I did to lead up to that point.
I sprained my ankle once trying to dodge out of the way of a classmate I was trying to avoid when i saw them at a park 😂 What you say is correct. Kind pf wish I’d gotten it checked at the time but it could’ve been worse and I rested soon after hobbling out of view
Don’t be a cunt.
Simple advice that works. More people should try it.
But that doesn’t sound counter-intuitive my dear fellow
I’m addicted, I can’t stop
This is more relationship advice. Ask your partner to have a day of sex where you just communicate what you want with words.
The first year of the relationship, I was using tricks I saw in porn. I was doing things to my wife that she didn’t care for, but didn’t say anything because she thought I enjoyed doing it. We later talked and the next session, we just followed what the other person wanted. And now it’s part of our tricks.
Next time your jabbing your sausage into her armpit, ask her if she’s liking what you’re serving.
