• edric@lemm.ee
    81·
    10 months ago

    If you’re in the US, you can sign up for Informed Delivery with USPS so you know when to expect incoming important mail. This can help if mail theft is common in your area.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      UPS and FedEx also allow you to sign up for similar alerts based on your address so you don’t have to necessarily rely on tracking numbers for everything.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It also helps if you are too lazy to bundle up to go outside to check when it’s cold as nuts, but are waiting for something specific. 😁

      And if you just never check your mail (I get almost exclusively junk mail, so I check it every week or two. All my bills are autopay, and all communications are paperless when possible).

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Open Library allows you to digitally borrow a ton of books for free. It’s not the greatest experience since the books they own are scanned and not digital copies, but it’s good enough, and their catalogue is not half bad.

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Just legality. These are paid books that they can’t give away for free, but acting as a library they can let you borrow them, read them, and “return” them.

        In practice you’ll rarely feel this system because you can just re-borrow it whenever you want to read it.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Just legality.

          The legality was only ever a grey area. Their days may be numbered, however. During the lockdowns they removed the one physical copy per digital copy lent, and as a result of that they got sued. Instead of settling out of court they drummed up donations to a legal fund and lost hard, and during the trial a judge ruled that their practice was illegal. In my opinion, they should have done everything they could have to settle out of court, rather than try and build a frivilous defense that had no grounding in law.

          Right now, they’re appealing it, so I guess that’s why it’s still up. However it looks like their strategy isn’t any better now than it was then.

          But hey, their laywer’s getting paid.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      In the words of Ubisoft we need to feel “comfortable with not owning your game”. If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.

      Got any recommended resources for piracy sites/lists?

  • inlandempire@jlai.luFrançais
    3·
    10 months ago

    https://www.khanacademy.org/

    Anyone can learn anything. For free. Education is a human right. We are a nonprofit because we believe in a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Instead of ads or subscriptions, we are supported by individual contributions from people like you. Please join us today.

  • SagXD@lemm.ee
    3·
    10 months ago

    Internet is beautiful communities and subreddit mirror on lemmy.

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Awhile ago, a user on r/casualuk posted a list of UK based stuff that was either free or cheap (food/entertainment/etc). They mirrored it in a few places and I bookmarked the github mirror. Doesn’t look like it’s been updated for a year or so though and I ain’t prepared to head to reddit to check the original.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Free tier cloud services like AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Azure. I use free tier VMs to host random services like VPNs, Mastodon instance, etc.

    Tailscale has a free tier to connect your devices, VMs, and home servers.

    GitHub pages is great for hosting any simple website for free.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Don’t forget about cloudflare. With their free caching and cdn a well optimized site can run for barely anything. With GitHub actions and pages you can have a fully static site hosted completely for free.

      • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        AWS & Azure don’t offer free VMs but they offer other always free cloud services. I use Oracle Cloud’s Always Free VMs which are great. You can get two AMD-based compute VMs and one Arm-based compute VM with 24GB of RAM. I’ve been using them for nearly 2 years now. GCP also has a more basic always free VM offering.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    https://baby-journal.app if you have kids and value privacy (disclaimer: I’ve written the app).

    Edit: It’s an app for tracking your baby activities, like feeding, sleeping, diaper changes etc. Fully end-to-end encrypted and fully open source and self-hostable, installable on both iOS and Android.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        No, use the app if you value privacy and don’t want companies to sell data about your kids just so they can give you better ads.

        But you do you, for all I care, people twisting other people’s words are not really someone whose opinion I care about.