YSK: In case you ever lose your Android phone, there is an applet which turns its ringer up to 100% if you text it

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I’ve seen products such as the Trackr pixel out there which make your phone ring if you’ve lost it, even if it was on silent. I thought I’d share a free alternative to this.

All you need is a free account with If This, Then That. Once you have an account, you can set up this applet.

Essentially, when your phone receives a text with a specified keyword/phrase, its ringtone will be turned up to max volume.

Edit: If you have an Alexa or Google Home, there are also more direct ways to find your phone via the same site here and here, respectively.

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YSK If you’re bitten by a tick, keep the tick in a bag in your freezer. If you ever suspect that you have the symptoms of lyme disease, you can get the tick tested and get antibiotics. Early treatment does cure the otherwise incurable disease.

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It’s true.

Bay Area Lyme Foundation today announced that the Foundation is the first to offer free tick testing for residents of the U.S. Testing is available through a partnership with Nate Nieto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University and his lab. Bay Area Lyme Foundation hopes to use this crowd-sourced data as a vehicle for gaining a greater understanding of the geography of tick-borne diseases in the U.S. If successful in accumulating data, it will be the first crowd-sourced study of its kind.

Simple tick removal tool

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YSK that if your phone mysteriously stops working, don’t try to get into your bank account.

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Biggest Scams People Actually Fell For

Sorry for the lack of details, I’m trying not to dox myself.

Long story short, someone convinced a cell phone carrier to port my phone number to a phone they owned without interacting with me. They then waited until I needed to pay bills, which based on the time of month was today. I signed in using 2 factor authentication in which they got the text message code instead of me. How they translated that code into access to my online bank account, I cannot explain, but neither could anyone at my bak or cell phone company, and I used to work for that bank, and before that, my cellphone company, and I can’t either. I couldn’t access my bills, because my cell phone stopped working, prompting me to think my sim card shit the bed, so I just used a different method. While I was paying my bills, some asshole siphoned off about a grand from my account. The bank is covering the thousand dollars and I am definitely losing my cellphone number, but it’s a minor inconvenience compared to actually losing a thousand dollars. Given my employment past, I feel like I should know better and I’m pretty ashamed of it, but both my bank and my cellphone company have said this has gotten really popular in the last few weeks so I wanted to bring attention to the problem.

TL;DR: if a banking related inconvenience seems like a perfect storm, stop what you’re doing before you give up too much info.

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YSK: Taking burst photos with your camera greatly improves the chances of capturing the best shot.

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Using the iPhone as an example, hold the shutter button down when shooting photos of people or anything in motion. You should hold for as long as reasonable and get as many shots as time or storage permits. You see it quickly takes a lot of photos!

Afterwards, go to the Camera Roll and select the burst (it looks like a stack of images). You can then quickly analyze them by tapping “Select…” and then flipping through the images by scrolling left or right, selecting only the one or some you like, then dropping the rest and recovering storage space.

Black panther’s spots which can only be seen using an infrared camera


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YSK that Spotify quietly increased the price of Student Premium + Hulu

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It was advertised that you get Hulu completely free with Spotify Student, but I just looked and the price jumped to $10/month if you signed up to add Hulu.

Go here to remove Hulu and go back down to $5/month

How Spotify Screws Over Your Favorite Artists

puffballpanda: This happened to me too but then I realized that you just need to renew your student membership each year.

SteelPandas: i just checked and it still says its 4.99 for spotify+hulu for students

Auxilae: https://i.imgur.com/aZndGuU.png

It still says $4.99 for me?

digasaurus: Also showing as 4.99 for me still https://imgur.com/1MYzPg5