Question to hardware hackers. What’s the most practically life-changing hack/mod/build you’ve ever done? (Not the most complex or technically clever or difficult... leverage over real life stuff)
In the late 90s as a teenage zinester I learned the classic “Kinko’s trick” from reading about it in another zine... felt like a momentous instance of self-perpetuating media hack.
In the days of manual counters, you could get get 2 cartridges, plug the 1st one in and make tons of copies, then “accidentally” drop/nudge it under the copier, plug in 2nd and make like $3 worth of copies, take it to the clerk and only pay for that one