What free things online should everyone take advantage of?
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I literally did not.
Oh goody then
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LibreVox (if audio books are more your thing):
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I should take advantage of this tread
not that useful but cute: https://http.cat/ and https://http.dog/ give cute pictures to http error codes like 404: file not found or (the better one) 418: im a teapod
When i dont know what an errer code means i often put http.gat/{errorcode} and then i am pleased because of insight and cat- https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is very useful, it takes a few seconds for you to check if some accounts got found in public breaches
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Ad blockers
For Safari on macOS, iOS I recommend 1Blocker.
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Anna’s Archive
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Not really „free“ but „mostly free“: Each week you can get a different game from the Epic game store
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The Pirate Bay
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The services of your local library. Sign up and use them, and get your friends & family on too because the more regular users and the more people aware of their services, the harder they are for politicians to take away or slash the budget of.
Common services offered:
- Kanopy, hoopla (free TV shows and movies, similar to Netflix)
- Local/national newspapers digital versions
- PressReader for various (usually subscription-only) magazines
- ebooks and audiobooks via OverDrive/Libby, BorrowBox, hoopla, etc.
- Educational resources like language learning apps
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Been using this list of free websites and resources for a while:
- Comics on the second page.
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The piracy mega thread.
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Your question’s answer is encapsulated to a high degree here:
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Can we apply some of both of those to narrow down to a few recommendations?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
just these 6 have more info than any human can ever consume:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
All the wikis
https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
https://www.technologyreview.com/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/05/27/intensified-continuity-revisited/ (havent been here in a while, not sure what its like now)
These are some of my bookmarks I put up. Theres a lot lot more and I'll to get back and add more. Many people have made many such lists. Often much better
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
just these 6 have more info than any human can ever consume:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
All the wikis
https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
https://www.technologyreview.com/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/05/27/intensified-continuity-revisited/ (havent been here in a while, not sure what its like now)
These are some of my bookmarks I put up. Theres a lot lot more and I'll to get back and add more. Many people have made many such lists. Often much better
Thank you, kind stranger!
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The services of your local library. Sign up and use them, and get your friends & family on too because the more regular users and the more people aware of their services, the harder they are for politicians to take away or slash the budget of.
Common services offered:
- Kanopy, hoopla (free TV shows and movies, similar to Netflix)
- Local/national newspapers digital versions
- PressReader for various (usually subscription-only) magazines
- ebooks and audiobooks via OverDrive/Libby, BorrowBox, hoopla, etc.
- Educational resources like language learning apps
I tried this a few days ago, but Overdrive only had 2 'copies' of the 30+ year old novel I wanted and the waitlist was 10 weeks so I added another "Fuck capitalism for..." to my list.
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Harvard just released a free civics course. I've been looking into starting that.
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Not really „free“ but „mostly free“: Each week you can get a different game from the Epic game store
I keep forgetting about that
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Ad blockers
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Pi-hole and Vance(YouTube ad blocker.) I can't watch YouTube with ads now.
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Linux, torrents, youtube (if you use a account-less frontend), Wikipedia.
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Linux, torrents, youtube (if you use a account-less frontend), Wikipedia.
Is anyone aware of a third-party service for tracking YouTube watch history across devices? That's the missing piece keeping me from switching
