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What is a Life Pro Tip?

A Life Pro Tip (or an LPT) is a specific action with definitive results that improves life for you and those around you in a specific and significant way.

Keep in mind that an aphorism is not a LPT.

An aphorism is a a short clever saying that is intended to express a general truth or a concise statement of a principle.

Examples of aphorisms:

"A barking dog never bites."

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

"All stones are broken stones."

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LPT: Bring a magnet with you when picking out refrigerators (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/lpt@lemmy.ca

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I don't know if this is common knowledge, but not all refrigerators nowadays are magnetic. When going out shopping for one, bringing a small fridge magnet can help you easily rule some models out if you care about that.

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[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Back when we still used HDDs they stored data magnetically and magnets would corruot your entire pc

[–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Back when? I upgraded my storage with a couple of 14TB drives ~2 years ago and HDD was the only answer. Doing a quick search, the largest SSD I can find at the moment is 8TB and they're well over $1,000 each.

Also, there are crazy strong magnets inside of HDDs. I initially thought this is what the above was referring to since I use the magnets from old decommissioned HDDs to hold things to the fridge : D

EDIT: I am weird though and prefer a desktop as my primary computing device... which doubles as a media server... in addition to my non-media server.

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I thought this might actually be a pro tip :))