FartsWithAnAccent to [email protected]English • 1 year agoThe buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.commessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1702cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish33•1 year agoMy grandmother had one of these. I somehow discovered that if I took this magnetic screwdriver, and this bent piece of coat hanger and slapped them together, her tv would turn off. I fucked with her so much she took her tv to a repair shop because she thought it was broken. Good times.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoI think this is hacking in its purest form. You’ve discovered a new way to do something unexpected, and you went ahead with it just because you could.
My grandmother had one of these.
I somehow discovered that if I took this magnetic screwdriver, and this bent piece of coat hanger and slapped them together, her tv would turn off.
I fucked with her so much she took her tv to a repair shop because she thought it was broken.
Good times.
I think this is hacking in its purest form. You’ve discovered a new way to do something unexpected, and you went ahead with it just because you could.