FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1663arrow-down112cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltheandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1651arrow-down1external-linkThe buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comFartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square73fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltheandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.ca
minus-squareLrdThndr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 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-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 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.