[–] Loch_Ness_Monster 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
I learned the perfect amount of money to ask for when panhandling. It's not too much, so that the person walks away, and it's not too little, so you don't really get anything. That amount is $3.50.
[–] ISylaSI 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
Previous cell phone tech here -
1 - Unless you have a water resistant cell phone, STOP bringing yours in the bathroom while you shower. A steamy bathroom is not an environment your phone is rated to handle and it will ruin it over time.
2 - If you are having issues with your network, dropped calls, slow internet, missed texts, ect, CHILL the fuck out. You need to realize that you are carrying a supercomputer around that can instantly transmit your dick pick from you, to a nearby tower, through the ground to another tower, to fucking space, back to another tower, and too someone else's pocket super computer. THATS FUCKING AMAZING, AND VERY COMPLICATED. I get it, you pay a lot for your phones, but having a little appreciation for the technology will help you a lot.
[–] Link1299 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Illustrator here
If you're looking to be an artist or illlustrator, but can never find ideas you have two options: still lifes in real life or pictures on the internet, or draw your thoughts.
Also, if you enjoy drawing, and I had never thought of doing this until near the end of my college career, draw your notes. If you can portray a concept visually, sketch it down and make some bare bones notes. I'm not the best with walls of words, but it had never occurred to me to draw out the concepts I wanted to study. If you are a more visually oriented person I found this helped my studies immensely.
Also, if you like to draw one subject, never stop drawing it. I don't care if its dinosaur, fruit, cartoons, or tits. The only way to get good at anything is to do it until it is second nature, regardless of what others think. You can't be good at everything, and while it is encouraged to experiment, never think it means you shouldn't draw something you enjoy to draw or should stop drawing a certain subject. People told me since I was in elementary school to stop drawing dinosaurs. I ignored them :)
finally, ignore all critiques and simply critique for yourself. What do you need to improve, have a third eye and faith in yourself to improve and ignore anyone else. Use a medium the way you like to, find your style, and don't stop doing it just because people think you're doing it wrong. You can't distinguish yourself if you let others define how you do something yourself.
[–] Caboose_Calloway 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Everything with a brand name on it is overpriced by at least %100. Every time an item changes hands in the supply chain its price increases by %50. Everything sold in a store is further overpriced by %100 to %700.
What you want is to go closer to the source and buy at commodity prices. At that level everybody does their own quality checks btw, you need to learn to do the same.
I buy industrial supplies by the truckload, sometimes the product fails QC for things which are not important in my application. Instead of turning them back I negotiate the price. I can do that because I know my application inside out and I run my own quality checks. Middlemen are often poorly equipped to asses the quality of the stuff they sell and they tend to rely on manufacturer's data. This gives me tremendous negotiating advantage and more often than not the middlemen send me directly to the manufacturer to sort the thing out, even better for me.
[–] ghostprototype ago
There are five things you should always study up on and learn how to game:
Insurance adjustment
Car Sales, or any price negotiations in general. Hint: anything is negotiable with enough leverage.
Credit scoring system
Income tax (not to buck the system, but get the biggest bang for your buck)
The stock market.
[–] G4 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago
You don't need a constantly running antivirus to be safe. Just install something like Malwarebytes AntiMalware, and leave it. If you think you got a virus, just run it and it will detect it.
Also, programming is easy, being creative with programming is hard.
[–] Pawn ago
yea because the virus will display behavior that it's doing something./s
this "expert" might be a load of crock.
[–] ISylaSI 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is great advice.
[–] tolstoshev ago
Yeah you can always remove ransomware later </sarcasm>
[–] G4 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
The thing is, you totally can. In most ransomware, you can just alt+tab away