What free resources do you know on the internet that everyone should use?
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A library card and library resources such as Libby
is this an american thing?
Also kanopy.com lets you make a free account with a library card or university login, and you can watch movies for free.
If you’re in the US, you can sign up for Informed Delivery with USPS so you know when to expect incoming important mail. This can help if mail theft is common in your area.
UPS and FedEx also allow you to sign up for similar alerts based on your address so you don’t have to necessarily rely on tracking numbers for everything.
It also helps if you are too lazy to bundle up to go outside to check when it’s cold as nuts, but are waiting for something specific. 😁
And if you just never check your mail (I get almost exclusively junk mail, so I check it every week or two. All my bills are autopay, and all communications are paperless when possible).
Open Library allows you to digitally borrow a ton of books for free. It’s not the greatest experience since the books they own are scanned and not digital copies, but it’s good enough, and their catalogue is not half bad.
Why would you need to borrow and return in this scenario?
Just legality. These are paid books that they can’t give away for free, but acting as a library they can let you borrow them, read them, and “return” them.
In practice you’ll rarely feel this system because you can just re-borrow it whenever you want to read it.
Just legality.
The legality was only ever a grey area. Their days may be numbered, however. During the lockdowns they removed the one physical copy per digital copy lent, and as a result of that they got sued. Instead of settling out of court they drummed up donations to a legal fund and lost hard, and during the trial a judge ruled that their practice was illegal. In my opinion, they should have done everything they could have to settle out of court, rather than try and build a frivilous defense that had no grounding in law.
Right now, they’re appealing it, so I guess that’s why it’s still up. However it looks like their strategy isn’t any better now than it was then.
But hey, their laywer’s getting paid.
You can always take advantage of me.
I’m free and online.
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All the piracy and freemediaheckyeah subs
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basically this thread, already filled out. Free media, heck yeah.
Free tier cloud services like AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Azure. I use free tier VMs to host random services like VPNs, Mastodon instance, etc.
Tailscale has a free tier to connect your devices, VMs, and home servers.
GitHub pages is great for hosting any simple website for free.
Free tier VMs are limited, so are you just signing up for new AWS accounts once a month?
AWS & Azure don’t offer free VMs but they offer other always free cloud services. I use Oracle Cloud’s Always Free VMs which are great. You can get two AMD-based compute VMs and one Arm-based compute VM with 24GB of RAM. I’ve been using them for nearly 2 years now. GCP also has a more basic always free VM offering.
Ok, but, Oracle Cloud…🤮
Jokes aside, that’s pretty cool, thanks for the info
https://baby-journal.app if you have kids and value privacy (disclaimer: I’ve written the app).
What’s this do? There’s no explanation or screenshots or anything.
Added a description.
“Try my app because I wrote it”?
No, use the app if you value privacy and don’t want companies to sell data about your kids just so they can give you better ads.
But you do you, for all I care, people twisting other people’s words are not really someone whose opinion I care about.
MIT Open Courseware
If women want free penis pictures and rape threats they can visit any ‘incel’ community and state “I am a woman” then sit back and wait.
I do not recommend this.
For ebooks versions of books that are no longer under copyright: project gutenberg.
And similarly for audiobooks: Librivox. It’s a website and is also available as an app.
Many of the ebooks available on Project Gutenberg are a little rough. I recommend Standard eBooks instead.
Awhile ago, a user on r/casualuk posted a list of UK based stuff that was either free or cheap (food/entertainment/etc). They mirrored it in a few places and I bookmarked the github mirror. Doesn’t look like it’s been updated for a year or so though and I ain’t prepared to head to reddit to check the original.
I just checked the Reddit thread and the OP took it down in protest of Reddit’s API changes.
