FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1682arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1669arrow-down1external-linkThe buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comFartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareLrdThndr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·11 months 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-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months 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.