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I went to pottery class today and opened by asking several of my classmates if they knew how to use the slab roller upstairs. Nobody did but everyone wanted to, so when the teacher got in I’m like “hey teach, do you know how to use the slab roller upstairs” and she’s like “no” (she’s a visiting artist who only got here a couple months ago so this is not very surprising) “but I’ve used a lot of different ones and I bet we can figure it out.” Me: “do you want to go on a Journey of Discovery?” Everyone: yes. YES. *cue sickos faces* so we all thunder up the stairs periodically shouting JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY and our teacher snags another person who uses the slab roller A Lot and this person gives us a very thorough lesson and demonstration and every so often someone else wanders through and asks what’s happening and we all go JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY at them and now everyone knows how to use the slab roller and honestly I cannot recommend this approach enough as a way to make learning new skills and life generally more exciting.

#LifeHack

#lifehack

I put my mouse in the microwave !!

Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.

So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.

A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆

#lifehack #bluetooth

#lifehack #bluetooth

Another simple #LifeHack:
I was using 3D printed door stopper (hodor) to secure doors open.
But then we got a robot vacuum cleaner, which pushes the hodor away and closes itself (and also @ofi 😾) behind the door.
Solution: magnet!
It does not suit all situations, but it works here with the wardrobe behind the door.
🧲🚪✅
3d printed door stopper with the word hodor written on it in a game of thrones font
Magnet screwed to the wardrobe
Small steel plate glued to the door handle
Door locked open by a magnet on wardrobe holding to a metal plate on door handle.
#lifehack @Ofi 🐈

When I am bored, I start to scratch something that my humans don't like to be scratched. A chair upholstery for example. 🪑 This always brings their attention to me. But they are also angry angry at me. 👀😡 So I invented the step two. After scratching I start to look cute. 🥺 This immediately removes all the anger and only human's attention remains.
😺 #Cat #CatLife #LifeHack #CatsOfMastodon
Me scratching a chair upholstery while also checking if alredy gained the attention
Me laying on the chair looking cute after gained human attention
#cat #lifehack #catsofmastodon #catlife

#tech #hardware #laptop #lifehack

Linux life hack: say you have a page open in Firefox on your Linux machine and you want to view it on your phone (and you don’t have some fancy integration between the two)…

Instead of typing in the URL, get the FxQRL extension that shows you a QR code of the current tab’s URL and aim your phone’s camera at it.

Boom! :)

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

#linux #lifeHack #firefox #extension #web #QRcode #mobile #browser

Screenshot of my Mastodon page with its QR code showing from the extension mentioned in the post.

FxQRL - URL to QR code – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download FxQRL - URL to QR code for Firefox. Turns your URLs into QR code images using built-in library, no network connection is made in this add-on.
addons.mozilla.org
#linux #extension #firefox #mobile #browser #web #QRCode #lifehack

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