I’ll share mine first.
I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!
I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.
Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.
TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!
Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?
Reddit has pretty large open source and piracy communities. I’ve been a “super user” of computers and tech in general and got great resources to manage my systems at home. I’ll link some of my favorite tools.
Big batch of scripts to clean your computer of bloatware and viruses: https://github.com/bmrf/tron
A much better Windows search: https://www.voidtools.com/
Adblocking for your entire home network: https://pi-hole.net/
Create bootable USB drives: https://rufus.ie/en/
Disk usage viewer, helps me clean up my hard drive space every so often: https://windirstat.net/
Notepad++ or Sublime Text for better notepad alternatives
And so much more. I could have probably found them without reddit if I were in like IT and Tech forums, but I was on Reddit
Check out WizTree as a WinDirStat replacement. I switched years ago and supported the dev. One of those tools you don’t need often, but great when you do.
WizTree is significantly faster.
And now you can say that you discovered that on Lemmy.