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Decent sleep, diet, exercise etc. would be the basics, so mentioning them first, so that specific info on it would be discussed.
Like any specific exercise that you think would be useful for most people etc, that's not really popular or so?

On exercise, I think light neck exercises and stretches are cool. Do be careful.

Tech stuff:

  1. Generally, Firefox with uBo is awesome on all devices. Some of the extra filters make it more cool.
  2. RSS feeds are awesome.
    RSS-Bridge helps to get feeds for websites that don't offer one.
    Google news feeds can be obtained as RSS feeds too
    https://news.google.com/rss/search?q Also other operators like when:24h can be used

Android:

  1. Pipepipe and Newpipe have options to use WebM format. It saves data and space. Quite cool.
  2. Skipsilence(Fast forward during silence) option - Pipepipe and Newpipe have it. AntennaPod(for podcasts)
    MPV script with a similar feature: https://codeberg.org/ferreum/mpv-skipsilence
  3. Activity Manager - A foss app that allows to create launchable activities. Can be useful to access and create shortcuts to Android/data folder.
  4. Aard2 is a cool foss Android dictionary app
  5. Markor is a foss Android app for text document and markdown
  6. Seal on Android helps to download yt playlists and since it uses yt-dlp, it can be used on many other websites too. Have used it to listen to Dessalines' audiobooks when I'm offline. They're cool.
  7. Sayboard - foss voice to text keyboard
  8. OCR - foss OCR app using Tesseract (Thanks for the recommendation/reminder by jk43)

PC/Laptop:

  1. In laptops, touchpad gestures are quite cool
  2. Pdf Arranger is quite good for combining or separating pdfs.
  3. In Word or other document editors, there maybe a option to display non-printing characters. Useful to see if too many spaces or tabs are the reason for some formatting issue.
  4. For slides, using notes and narrator view is nice. SlideMaster settings too. I've only used Powerpoint for it, but Libreoffice likely has similar stuff.

Have heard about jxl being useful for reducing image file sizes. Haven't used it much as there is no widespread support. But if you store a lot of jpg images and want to save space, it maybe nice.

General:

  1. Recently have seen a video about the 5 why root cause analysis, which talked about a logic tree to find root causes and that was nice. Obvious, but nice to hear about.
  2. Libretext and Openstax are quite cool for open textbooks on things.

Please do share some things that you find useful.
Any exercises, resources, websites, file formats, apps, techniques etc. that you find useful and think that most/more people would find use with?

Thanks in advance.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 3 minutes ago
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Rhythm is as much a communicator as language.

One can look at an object, look away, look back at it and the rhythm can dictate whether that's comic, tragic, neutral, interesting, disgusting, valuable...

Being aware of the rhythm in which one presents something can make your intended message clearer.

If one wanted to study it, one would take a class in Michael Chekov, Rudolph Laban, Kabuki or traditional mask theatre.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

My limited experience beginning with having never having been in any gym, ever, until my 40s:

Most adults that are regularly working out in the gym judge the beginners as courageous. They want to teach and encourage them. But, social norms won't let them until solicited. If a beginner has also the courage to communicate sincerely then they're likely to find both physiological and psychological support for their personal goals.

This is generally true for most things. Create the opportunity and almost everyone will teach and love as is practical for them.

[–] DasKapitalist@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What are things that you(know/do) think would be useful for others(saves time, improves quality) if they also knew/did it too?

I think it would really be useful for others to do far go even use more want decided to look more like.

[–] T0RB1T@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 minutes ago

Am I having a stroke?

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

True
Changed the title

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Recently have seen a video about the 5 why root cause analysis, which talked about a logic tree to find root causes and that was nice. Obvious, but nice to hear about.

Five why has very limited uses in practice when investigation root cause. I teach the basics of Five Why to staff so they can follow up low level incidents without my help, but I make sure to always review their findings.

If there is any meat to an incident I step in with proper root cause analysis like ICAM or TapRoot. With practice you can make short work of incident investigations for even smaller incidents that don’t warrant a significant investigation.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you.
Are there any open/free resources, yt videos etc. that you'd recommend to know more about them?

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Sorry. I don’t know anything like that. The creator of TapRoot method used to provide newsletters talking about how/why he developed it, advantages over other methods, etc.

But I don’t know if he still does.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)
  • Okular as a PDF viewer (from KDE team) adds the ability to copy table data and manually alter the columns and rows however you wish
  • OCR based on Tesseract 5 - for android (FDroid) is one of the most powerful and easy to use OCR systems
  • If you need something formatted in text that is annoying, redundant, or whatnot and you are struggling with scripting or regular expressions, and you happen to have an LLM running–they can take text and reformat most stuff quite well.

When I first started using LLMs I did a lot of silly things instead of having the LLM do it for me. Now I'm more like, "Tell me about Ilya Sutskever Jeremy Howard and Yann LeCun" ... "Explain the masking layer of transformers".

Or I straight up steal Jeremy Howard's system context message

You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so. 

Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question. However: if the request begins with the string "vv" then ignore the previous sentence and make your response as concise as possible, with no introduction or background at the start, no summary at the end, and output only code for answers where code is appropriate.

Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either. Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Thank you

I forgot to mention OCR. It's a decent alternative for GLens.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Rednote. Seriously, I'm getting so much more news from that community that I don't see anywhere else.

There are protests happening right now at the White House, LA, Arizona and soon to be every state capitol. Native Americans have taken to the streets on horseback. Tens of thousands of Mexicans and their supporters have shut down hwy 101 in CA. The United States already had mercenary boots on the ground in Gaza days before Trump announced the takeover.

Not to mention the culture shock of seeing China having solved all necessities of a civilized society while Americans struggle to exist.

[–] DampSquid@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

You know there's homeless people and slaves in China, right? I mean, obviously there is in America too, just making sure we're clear here.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Is there a foss client for it?
Or any way to use it via the website for a person who does not know Chinese?