Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it…yet)

There are apps that you can input text into and they can replace the characters in each word incrementally to help learn them. Wanna get into that

  • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    How to do almost anything by hand, and the phonetic alphabet (specifically nato phonetic alphabet) can be useful for misunderstandings. I want to learn shavian, an alphabet optimized for english, just for fun.

    Have a great day, be kind, and have fun! :D

  • LawBodilyAutonomy@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Your state’s mental hygiene/commitment laws and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty that U.S.A. is the only country not to ratify.

  • holymole@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 days ago

    Pretty much how to do any task without electricity or a device that depends on it. It can be really useful to know how people did every day stuff 200 years ago.

    Do you know how to do your laundry without a machine? Use a map? Send mail via post?

  • greenbelt@lemy.lol
    3·
    2 days ago

    The first 100 digits of pi lol. On a more serious note, it is very useful to remember how you should react to certain comments you know others will make in the future.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    4·
    2 days ago

    Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
    (F…C…G…D…A…E…B)

    this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let’s say the song take 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major

    It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.

    • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      That’s cool!

      I don’t understand any of it. (ELI5 please? Thanks for sharing this anyway!)

      Have a great day, be kind, and thanks for sharing! :D

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        1·
        16 hours ago

        It’s helpful if given a partition (with sharps or flats duly noted in the key signature), of which you want to quickly know the key -thus the tonic chord, usually the one any given song begins and ends with… broadly speaking. With this mnemonic you can immediately tell what the key is and start playing. Of course most people who play an instrument have developed their ear so that they can find the key of most songs they hear intuitively/empirically, the trick is useful with a partition only.

        • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyzOP
          21·
          19 hours ago

          You didnt have your phone or the physical card on you? If not I agree, if you did its seems little redundant, huh? Never gonna recommend ignorance over knowing for the most part, I just dont think it outweighs the fact you pretty much need to use a password manager anyway so why not batch everything in that way, where do you draw the lines?

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    10·
    2 days ago

    The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

    …for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

    Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

    This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

    As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

    So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…‘Mancy’?” ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

    …and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I agree that this has been very useful for me. Initially taught it to myself when I was working in IT, and it has come in handy a lot.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      First names still haven’t let me down to this date, and I’ve done phone work in the past.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 days ago

      More garbly? That’s those hosers using built in laptop microphones or speakerphones. Terrible.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 days ago

        Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

        Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

        Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

        Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅

  • pleasestopasking@reddthat.com
    3·
    2 days ago

    If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.

    Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

    Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.

    And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

    Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 days ago

      What a headache, as a non-American just reading this makes my frontal lobe hurt.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
      3·
      2 days ago

      Thank you but as the solar system as my witness that is such an absolutely terrible way to keep track of quantities

  • mech@feddit.org
    2·
    2 days ago

    Phone numbers of your life partner, parents, children, siblings and a lawyer.