Hey Pandas, What Technical Thing Have You Learned Recently? (Closed)

I learned that by reading a car manual and watching YouTube you can do pretty much anything to your car that needs doing. Rebuilt my diesel engine with a little muscle power help from my friend, as I'm a teeny tiny older lady that needs a step ladder to access the engine bay! Never too old to learn a new skill!

Unfortunately, crtl+alt+delete does not work on humans.

Ah, my favorite place to learn new PC techniques is here

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000050.htm

Thanks to this site I'm now a more useful idiot than ever before. The link above teaches

How to create a link that opens a new web page window or tab

If you can put it into search words you can learn it on this site.

Ila in Maine

Not me, but my dad - I showed him how you can read emails right from the screen so he doesn't have to print them to read anymore!

Have you ever tried to select and copy text from a web page where the text was a link or in some other way interactive? You can't just select the text because it wants to follow the link or pop up a message.

Well, I learned that if you hold the alt key down while selecting it, often it will ignore whatever controls are underneath and just allow you to select the text so you can copy it.

The back of an iPhone is like a “button”. If you go into settings->accessibility->touch->back tap, you can go from there! And with the shortcuts app there’s like endless possibilities, I made it so when I tap the back of my phone twice, it’ll send me to Google. And if I tap 3 times, it’ll send me to my messages. You can even make it send you to boredpanda, turn on dark mode, take a video, turn your brightness up, it’s crazy.

learnt to hang wallpaper.
use a drill
needle felt animals.
all since June.

I learned to do 3 d printing stuff and crochet except I suck at crochet

safely use a chain saw... not that technical, but throwing it in anyway.

I learned how to program 3 remotes into one remote. My Fire TV is semi broken, so I put a Roku stick in it to stream and also have cable, which equals 3 remotes. Finally got all functions on one, but some of the buttons I had to use are kind of random, so I had to make a list of what each button does, and tape it on the wall, until I get used to it. And please, all you tech natives, stop rolling your eyes. I am an old lady and at least I'm trying. I learned and used at least 28 different software programs during my varied career so I am not entirely Jitterbug phone level. But what I have found is that if you take just 2 or 3 years off to take care of a relative, technology just runs on by you and doesn't look back.

Video and sound editing. Just basics.

I can Facetime my daughter on her iphone using my iphone. And when I take a live picture, if I hold my finger over the pic, it's like a mini video. Love this new phone! (The last one I had was a flip phone.)

I’ve learned how to make graphics and use photoshop :)

I learned how to draw the perfect espresso.

If you doubt this is a technical skill, go online and look at Bezzara espresso machines. There is a definite learning curve.

I learned that ships' propellers are designed using the Betz limit, which is only really appropriate for harbour tugboats and the original tug-of-war contests against paddle wheels. Aircraft propellers are designed using the Froude equations, which account for moving through air or water, and would give at least 20% better efficiency.

I'm finally learning about GIT and how to merge branches. I keep thinking a career change may be in order. I've been a business analyst for almost 20yrs but I really think I'd like to become a release manager.

I just recently got into computers and have learned a lot about building them. Looking forward to build a computer myself in the future.

The rings on a jack determine the output-who knew!!

One ring means mono playback. This basic plug only delivers one channel of sound to both the left and right earbud. Two rings mean stereo. Three separating rings means you’ve got two stereo pins, and a microphone pin.

How to capture a screen shot in a movie I'm watching on Netflix ...or any streaming service, for that matter.

Switching to electric outdoor power equipment for my lawn service. Growing up I learned to start, refuel, maintain, and repair ICE equipment. Starting all over. I have never had to worry about a dirty anode on an ICE lawn mower. I still don't have the skills needed to describe all the new problem solving that I have been doing over the last 11 months. Refueling an electric mower is not as simple as refueling an ICE mower. Nor is storing and transferring the fuel. But I can say that I have not yet "spilled" any of the new fuel on to the ground. 🤣