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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    24 hours ago

    You’ve been successfully using pliers to pull the drawer open by the missing knob’s screw.

    Uh-oh! You left the drawer ajar in a pinch, forgot about it, and then caught your favorite sweatpants on the screw, making an ugly hole! And you don’t have gray thread to match!
















  • USB host devices are cheap and easy to come across. You can use a crap old PC with a fresh OS install, then wipe it. Or an old phone with microUSB OTG. Or a DVD player if you only need the file list (those can usually only open JPGs, GIFs, MP3s, and MPGs or AVIs with one of the video codecs allowed on VCDs/DVDs). Even some microcontrollers will have USB host capabilities and software libraries that will let you get the file list or contents slowly over serial.

    If you’re worried about “killer USBs” (data line zappers), open it and check for capacitors (and antennas in case they use Find My or LoRa for exfiltration but that would be super unlikely). Generating overvoltage inside normal-looking chips is technically possible with charge pumps and embedded capacitors but very expensive to pull off.



  • I disagree, Milky Way’s CEO Elon Musk would say his work is mostly cutting corners: finding what could be “unengineered”, like any backup systems in spacecraft or LiDAR on Teslas. The pinnacle of removing corners is the most low-poly, best-selling car in the world that is so simple nothing ever fails in it. /s