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Foil Hats On

A list containing some none bullshit lifehacks, advice and interesting info that I found by experience or on the internet. The essential of the video or article is in the links title, but do watch or read if u wanna know more. As always should, take everything with a grane of salt and do your own research.
The Trust me, bro section is just some random thoughts without backing.

Last updated: 2026-03-24


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Cooking, kitchen and food related:

  • Instant coffee sucks, beans are superior

  • Dishwasher tablets are bad, the loose powder is better

  • PYREX (all uppercase) is a good glass cookwear, cause it handles thermal shock

  • Microplastics are everywhere and cancerus, don't use nonstick and plastic anything

  • HRC signifies edge retention of a knife, the higher means also more brittle

  • Stainless steal knifes can be neglected, opposite to carbon knifes

  • Airwaves (gum) helps with cold symptoms

  • Electric cattle uses up a lot of energy in EU, but not in the US

  • BPA/BPS in Thermal Paper Receipts can cause hormonal problems in humans, wash your hands

  • Iodised salt is better, and its making u smarter

  • Nutrition papers are mostly founded by related food industries, and are almost always biased

  • Recycling isn't real

  • Beverage cans contain plastic liners

  • Plasma activated water helps plants grow

    • Technology and stuff:

  • Cassettes are bad quality, CDs plain better

  • Zigbee is cheap for smarthome, ESPHome boards cheap DIY

  • Ink Cartridges are a scam, cheap but sells for a lot

  • The internet is a psyop, as if u didn't know that

  • You can get a good watch for very cheap

  • Leave spotify, unplaylist your life, live for mp3

  • Incondecent bulbs lifetime jumps up drastically if underdriven

  • Arduino is dead, no longer truly open source, use something like MicroPython

  • Lithium batteries are way better than alcaline. Also durasmells are awful.

  • AI is going for your job, killing productivity and its overall harmful slop that hurts even your brain.

  • Credit Card cloning is easy, never input your credit card info pretty much anywhere. Tap to pay is somewhat secure.

  • Glass can be either more shatter resistant, or scratch resistant and never both equally

  • Pokemon Go was just a tracker for making a location database to spy on people, even better than google

  • Captcha is used to train AI for image recognision, for free by users of Google

  • Vacuum cleaner robots connected to cloud are a big privacy risk

  • Robot dogs are a security nightmare and are sending all its info to China

  • CRI is a rating that states how much of accurate colors u will see when using a lightbulb. 90 CRI is real good.

  • Copper coating on the inside of a laptop case is used as EMI shielding

  • It is possible to extract information such as display, keyboard, processor information wirelessly through radio waves. Consider EMI shielding.

  • The sound of cord rubbing against external material in bad headphones is called microphonics

    • Misc and random:

  • Balancing beads for tires work, only after reaching highway speed

  • Cashiers were always considered thiefs by businesses, thus cash registers were invented

  • Corporations dictate whats good and whats bad for the kids.

  • Keep ur car keys in a metal box as a wireless anti-theft measure

  • Unregulared fast fashion shops sell clothes with toxic chemicals

    • Trust me, bro

  • You can get good pens that write smooth for very cheap.
    e.g. Pilot G1/G2

  • Smart watches are annoying if u are not into sports, just buy a cheap watch!
    e.g. Casio MQ24

  • You can pirate everything if u look hard enough for it

  • Using linux and vim is epic!

  • Subscriptions are evil, live life without ads

  • KOreader is a marvel for reading ebooks

  • Productivity =/= selfworth