What's the most nigrigged tech you use on a daily basis?
>>52372926
what is that exactly? a headphone amp and...?
I used to hold my SSDs together with a lego frame and some screws.
>>52372957
>Broken Fiio E07k which can't hold a charge (or any FW settings)
>$20 DAC with shitty headphone out
>TRS -> RCA cable held together only by a knot in the wires and electrical tape (which is peeling away)
All to correctly power my 32Ω DT880s which I bought by mistake
Gpu fan got broken, so I have to put a replacement
>>52372966
>tfw don't even have my drives screwed into my computer
I have a xbox360 ac adapter powering a car amp that powers a Klipsch subwoofer under my desk(internal amp is broke).
I did find another replacement amp but forgot because it was two years ago that i searched for it.
>>52373020
Wouldn't it be better to have the fan suck air out of the PC?
GPU fan broke and I wanted to play games.
My Galaxy S5's charging port broke, so I cut the charger in half, cut out the data cables and stripped back the rubber coating on the + and - cables. Everytime I need to charge it I take the + and - wires and put them in my phone between the battery and the battery contacts.
Charges normally but when the wires short a jarring noise comes out of the speaker and i'm afraid to go to sleep/leave the house when it charges. Also, no notifications while charging kinda sucks. I really need to figure out what a new USB port costs.
>>52373072
Don't know, I'll try it.
>>52373131
>>52373020
Are you my friend? I know someone who does the same thing because of the same reason...
>>52373131
Pics please
>>52373131
buy a battery charger and another battery and just swap them periodically. That's what I did before I got my new phone, still do it with my new one because swapping battery is faster than waiting on it to charge
>>52372926
Linux
>>52373051
ive done this before lol it works great
phone book as a laptop pad
>>52373620
It does and it saved me money.
the SATA cable for my SSD doesn't actually latch into place, I've had to rubber-band it in there. Sometimes the rubberband snaps and I have to replace it.
Works like a charm ;_;
I was upset when it didn't fit so I took a pair of pliers to it.
>>52373840
FIRMLY GRASP IT!
My SSD is just duct-taped to my pc case, as I lost the screws immediately upon opening the packaging
I have a microphone super glued to my in home headphones, and my laptop has a bit of ultrasticky fabric on the lid to attach my external HDD to when in use
>>52373010
>DT880
Nice
>32ohm
Oh.... you dun goofed friend.
My SSD is litterally hanging to the power cable.
>>52373840
>HDMI to DVI
holy shit is this what it's like to be poor?
>>52374725
Lol faggot i beat you don't even use firewire
>>52372926
I'd post pics if I was at home, but I stacked some wood on my desk to put my laptop on and put an Intel fan underneath to keep it cool.
Could just get a cheap cooler pad but fuck it, that Intel fan blows more air than those cheap coolers anyways and it's pretty silent.
Stopped now but when I used my Xbox one:
It only had audio over hdmi or optical
Used computer monitor with no speakers
Only had computer speakers with normal 3.5mm jack
Xbox optical out - > digital to analog converter box - > It's rca out so another converter to make it 3.5mm then yet another to make it female instead of male so I could plug speakers in
Ended up costing like 70 bux at RadioShack so I could have just bought compatible speakers but I'm stubborn I guedd
>>52372966
I just use velcro and call it a day
>>52375104
Also nigger rigged Bluetooth into my car but it's not that niggery since it's just a tiny box that connects to Bluetooth and plugs in aux port on stereo
>>52374725
60Hz monitor plebian detected
unless you use displayport, then we're all good
I actually sort of nigrigged hardware and software in my gaymen laptop. Short greentext
>dog pees on my $3000 gaymen laptop while I'm sleeping and laptop is on
>wake up 3 hours later to its apparent death
>left it drying during the night and it worked again except leds were dead and so the keyboard and touchpad
>gpu fan no longer spins if it's not in constant use
So what I did was obviously plug an external keyboard and mouse, but the GPU problem was more serious; my solution was to make the X server use it when the graphical interface is running instead of the integrated Intel card. It makes the battery go away like a fucker but at least it werks and doesn't overheats.
openssl
My CPU fan broke 8 months ago. I should replace it at some point
I think I'm going to nigrig my ipod classic with a new rom, sd card mod then consider a portable dac and the pin out to aux to skip the ipod amp
>>52373020
Why did I laugh so hard at this?
Literally every fucking cable in this picture
>>52373051
Hello XPS friend ^~^
>>52373840
why the fuck did you not just use the included DVI cable with a female DVI to male HDMI adapter?
>>52377083
2/2
LOOK AT THIS SHIT
My laptop fell so I taped the broken piece back on.
>>52373131
It's on a separate board that you can get for ten bucks and doesn't require soldering, but taking it apart to install it is very fiddly. I did my S4 a while back.
>>52373131
5VDC won't do shit
Hell it's probably current regulated so you can't even spark it
I had a bunch of friends with broken iphone 3gs and put them together. Used that phone for years. When I traded it in to best buy to get half off my next phone, they said it was the cleanest one they've seen in awhile. I used the best looking parts...
PSU fan was too loud so I put a potentiometer and a few resistors in there
Much silent now
Pic related is not my rig, but I ran like that during summer months.
The >cringe part is that unlike pic related, I pulled the cardboard/duct tape box that constituted my exhaust, spraypainted it, and put it back in.
Ran cool every summer for about 4 years tho
>>52377208
Does this cause any heat issues?
>>52377359
None
My PSU is only 250W, so even if I throw away the fan nothing would happen, but I added a regulator just so that I can control it if the temp rises too much. It's winter right now so temperatures are low as it is, but I might have to rev up the fan speed in summer
>>52377144
You cant replace the charging port without removing the screen, which is almost impossible without replacing it.
>>52373131
Look for the wireless charging tabs. That's a much better way to do it. They are wide open, they are far apart, and you can keep the phone running.
>>52373020
Kek
>>52377083
>G510 keyboard w/ 18 macro keys
My literal nigger
>>52377515
You really don't want to see a close up of the keys.
They are covered in dried sweat (just salt caked)... I got the thing in a drawing and have had it forever.
I use the keys to spam shit in CSS/CSGO.
Now it's useful for SQUAD/Arma
>>52373131
this is not how one should charge li ion
Is life technology?
>>52373131
I admire your moxie, but for real, if you take your time, the charge port isn't too bad to fix. It's cheap to buy, as are the tools. Just set aside like an hour and read the iFixit guide. No wukkas.
Source: having to repair one while I worked in a computer repair shop
>>52373022
Same here, my ssd is just sitting on the plastic drive bay. Seems to be working fine. Even if it breaks its just a 16 gb I got for <$10.
I use a cheap PSU to drive my second Titan.
>>52377551
Is technology conducting electricity in complex ways?
>>52377848
bitch please, I use 1 PSU to drive the computer, 1 hdd and 1 dvd drive, and each of the other ones drives 3 each
I have lego bending my motherboard on an angle as it won't turn on unless it's warped.
>>52377948
explain
My bike.
killswitch broke, so I literally cut the wires and had wired another switch and didn't even solder/shrink.
Barrel shit the bed, now it's two niggered bypasses.
Same thing with my car and the fuel pump, though the car niggering actually prevented an attempted theft via good old flathead in the barrel and bypassing the fuel pump. Already bypassed, bitch nigga.
>>52373840
+10 i kek'd hard
underrated thread desu.
I bought a mic stand but the threading adaptor thing was a little fucking loose so I just taped the shit out of the places where they attach with regular electrical tape and they now screw in snugly
If you take it off, the tape is all stripped and fucked though so it's like a one time thing which kinda sucks if you need to remove it or bump it or something
laptop fan is broken and just a general piece of shit, but i can't claim the warranty until i go home in a months time
i stripped back a cooling mat and taped the fan to the bottom of it, so it's just blasting the guts as hard as it can.
pic fucking related. thanks AMD.
Pic related.
360 slims power adapter had the loudest, most annoying little whining CUNT of a fan.
So now it's dead, and this stops the heat.
I use a car cooler fan rigged to an old PSU as a regular fan.
>>52378040
I mean, it would throw a spanner into household insurance claims, but if it works it works.
I used to be hardcore about nigger rigging shit.
>Be poor as fuck, I'm talking really fucking poor
>Want a computer, this is the early 2000s
>No internet but god damn it do I want to play Doom
>Summer rolls around
>Live in a decently small town
>Literally ride my bike all around, dumpster diving around looking for PC shit
>Know nothing about computers but figure I should be able to piece this shit together somehow
>Nigger rig a computer together with black magic and luck
>No case,it's in a milk crate, held together with legos I found
>still have to find the moniter because no TV
>I'm like 12 at this point
>FInd a monitor in the trash
>mfw I built a computer not knowing anything about computers out of dumpster parts at 12 years old
I played the fuck out of shareware Doom
>>52378061
Car cooler fan?
Like, a thermostat fan?
>>52373121
>img
>playing games
>>52378079
It's connected to a UPS anyway, if it fucks up the UPS will just blow a fuse
I initially tried to run it without the fan, reasoning that the older more powerful adapter for the 360 fat didn't need one.
And then the 360 turned off when i had a 400 note streak going on One and i was just getting into my zone and when i touched the PSU it was so hot the plastic case was malleable.
So, yeah. My extremely old custom made USB fan (used for many things in the past, like keeping a PS3 fat from overheating) gains another use.
Fucking love this thing.
>>52378088
Not native English speaker. I don't know what's the right term. Pic related
>>52373020
>running some shit nvidia cards back in the day
>the fan dies on one of the cards
>no experience with this shit so give it to a friend who says he does this shit all the time and will fix it for free
>gives it back to me with a fucking AMD fan in it
>the fan blades are angled the opposite direction than they should be with how the radiator was built
>didn't even fucking work
>>52378021
speccy hasnt been able to read apu temps properly for years
and even if you didn't have an apu why the fuck are you using speccy to monitor temps? it's god awful at it.
>>52378457
thats just a fan
>>52373131
Reparing an s5 is Cancer you will most likely break the screen since it is glued so hard. I would not repair anything on that phone which needs the screen to be removed unless you plan to replace it.
My switch.
I got it for $8 at a used PC store, pretty good for a gigabit managed switch.
The stock fans were 40mm which has a really shitty airflow to annoyance ratio, and they're 5v so that limits my options for replacing them. So I just took the top case off and put a big fan over it. Runs pretty much silent since it's a 12v fan running on 5v.
The switch itself is really weird. The switch chips are Vitesse-made, and the firmware is Vitesse branded. The hardware also supports 2x5Gbit stacking ports. But the switch itself is rebranded by Ruby networks, and the stacking ports aren't actually accessible from the outside. The strange part? The firmware had other switches configured in the stack when I got it.
>>52378544
Yeah, it is. It's what I use it for. Got it from an old car, so it needs 12V which is why I rigged it to an old psu
Not tech but my cars lower control arms are held together by polyurethane(liquid nails)and the steering wheel is not aligned up. I drive 400miles a week to LA every weekend and i give people rides for gas $$.
The breaker switches on my house keep getting flipped and i got tired of going out and flipping it back during the night so i attached a rubber band that flips the breakers back on anytime they are triggered.
>>52378677
Do you have a deathwish?
>>52378649
Maybe you should Uber, SideCar and Lyft
>>52378677
firehazard.exe
stick a fork in your electrical outlet :^)
>>52375037
This, but aluminum on the wood, and pieced/glued like a frame.
>>52378677
>>52378677
I refuse to believe anyone could be so reckless
>>52378086
My laptop doubles as a heater for my room. Get on my level.
>>52372926
>laptop hinge got fucked when the lcd was repaired
>broken bezel, doesn't reattach properly
>screen cannot stand up on its own
>use pegs to hold it together
>also massive overheating problems
>want to run minecraft server but it keeps crashing
>frozen peas.exe
>works like a charm
>put ice pack under laptop every time i want to play a game
>>52377116
Now take out the safe
And slam the top with your closed fist
Bam, it's open
my thinkpad :^)
Wireless phone charging stand.
>>52373072
that wont be as effective
Waiting for my RMA'd mobo to put into a new mATX case is suffering.
>>52373840
on a friends computer we had it from dvi to hdmi back to dvi. works like a charm
>>52373020
say goodbye to your hardrive
>>52376024
oh please, that image is from 2006
>>52372926
I turned an old laptop into a NAS with freenas over winter break
-~5 years old, no battery
-16GB flashdrive boot drive
-shoved it into the corner
it just werks
>>52377934
Good to see some extrapsubros out and about
I'm running two PSUs on my desktop and I have a HTPC built out of hard rubbish that uses my desktop's speakers over pulseaudio and kodi with a shared MySQL db and drives mounted over sshfs because I'm lazy
>>52379836
Also the HTPC is using two usbs for its boot disk and home partition, I also use steam in home streaming from my vidya pc to play games on my TV, but for some reason my controller disconnects immediately when plugged in to a linux box (only linux problem I've had in 4 years of gentoo and arch on everything) but works fine on wangblows so I run the controller across the room with a couple usb extension cables
Also I use this nigger rigged VR, not daily but it's still pretty disgusting and cringe worthy
>>52379878
Forgot pic
>>52379888
looks pretty neat, how does it run?
>>52380051
it doesn't run, it doesn't have any legs
>>52372926
I zip tied a 2.5" harddisk on a desktop pc because I had a bunch of 2.5"s lying around but no 3.5" for the desktop.
>>52380102
English isn't my first language, but i think you can use the term "run" as in "work" right?
Anyways, i was just asking if that thing fucking works or not.
>>52380141
I just wanted to fuck with you anon
that looks like some random mobile screen from ebay strapped to google cardboard and a display driver module, most likely it displays a picture(dont know if it looks good or not, I aint the OP man)
>>52379231
Ever had a tower? With a decent gpu ? That is much better.
>>52373072
lmao no. Learn basic thermodynamics, kid.
>>52380231
Why would I waste my time on that?
>>52373121
noice
>>52379725
Why? Will it interfere somehow?
>>52373022
Mount any mechanicals, but SSDs are w/e
>>52380507
Can't since my gaming computer only has a laptop HDD in it.
I nigger-rig my shit like a white man.
>>52373022
my SSD is just hanging in the air from the sata cables
outside of my rig
under my table
>>52377621
Is that in a basket?
>>52379231
Intel: A processor with integrated graphics.
AMD: A processor with integrated space heater.
>>52380534
I like what you've done anon.
>>52380534
Is that on the wall?
>>52379231
Are you a professional gamer?
>>52380643
yes
>>52380299
>oh, let me put this big-ass electromagnet within 3 feet of my mechanical hard drive!
>WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
>>52380581
could be worse
>>52380691
it's just a fan, it doesn't function as a "big-ass electromagnet".
and the hdd is shielded
>>52380691
It's a fan dude, not an electromagnet. Electric motors don't generate a magnetic field like you're suggesting.
>>52380755
Some magnetic field does inevitably slip outside the housing, but it's not powerful enough to damage a HDD. (If fans emitted enough EMI to kill a HDD at 3 feet, then they would've also destroyed all floppy disks in a 50 feet radius)
I have a bent AC adapter and a dead battery on my laptop, I had to tape the adapter in one exact position for the shit to even start. One slight bump and the whole lelptop goes off. Sometimes it dies even while I'm typing vigorously. Wonder how much my SSD suffers from all of this.
>>52378514
S100 ELPH?
I was just testing does motherboard works
>>52380051
...
I just wanted to look cool on /g/, it doesn't actually work... yet
The cable connecting the screen to the controller board was a bit dodgy but I've ordered another one.
The tracking works alright though and the screen did seem to look ok.
The tracker works well though, it's a spark fun pro micro with a MPU6050 6DOF, I even got it outputting as mouse output so I can play pretty much any game with it, I just use VIREIO to split the output for each eye and I'm good
I plan to purchase a STFM32f4 discovery board because someone has written firmware for that that makes it register as a DK1
>modem/router combo has shitty WiFi range.
>use old circa 2007 40 meters Ethernet cable from modem through the ceiling to my router.
>cut a small corner of an individual cell to drop the Ethernet cable.
>router used to be right under the drop but I decided to move it.
>instead of cutting another hole I decide to run the Ethernet to the router using nail clamps and zip ties.
But that's not all...
>only 1 ac power outlet in my room just beside where the bed is.
> run extension cord through the same clamps and zip ties
> now I need internet to my computer so use another Ethernet from router to computer using the same clamps and zip ties.
But wait there's more !
>decide to move computer behind me from where pic related was taken.
>run another extension cord under my bed to power my computer.
>instead of relocating the old Ethernet cable from router to computer I decide to run a new line since taking the old implies re doing the clamps and zip ties for the other 2 cables.
And this is where I trigger you all
> i'm running double NAT
>>52381027
Ayyy, double NAT bro
I mean if it works it's fine
>>52373072
Without getting the fan more air tight against the case, its probably better as intake. Plus those fans are designed to just push air as an intake, i doubt that fan has worthwhile suction from behind relative to its size. (For sucking air out)
I find now that my temps are much better with mostly intakes and one exaust (rear), even both top slots were changed to intake recently (inb4 heat rises, i know this) and temps dropped significantly. I think the positive pressure is better, but have dust filters.
>>52377208
I did that to my old cpu fan its working well.
I'm using my Note 2 as a camera to look at my mailbox.
>>52381059
I don't run a home server. I don't ssh into my home computer. I don't transfer file on my home network.
So yeah, it works flawlessly for me
>>52381118
I use my old phone as a camera too, but it's duct taped to my monitor, hue
>>52372926
I work in a research and development lab, and I feel like pretty much everything is nigrigged. From our prototypes to our hardware to our network configuration.
I was telling a sysadmin friend of mine about something my team nigrigged onto the network, and he didn't believe me because no sane sysadmin would let his users do that. Turns out we don't even have one.
>>52380755
>>52380730
>>52380816
Actually, those kinds of fans are more than enough to slowly start to affect the hard drive over time, when it's at 2 feet or closer.
That, or most of my clients have been lying about how close their fans are to the drives and have actually had it right next to the damned things.
Regardless, as long as you keep the back-end of the fans a reasonable distance from drives, you should be fine. I'd personally feel a little better putting the fan at least 6 more inches away from the case than >>52373020 has placed, the amount of air going in should still be enough.
Only had 2 monitors, one was vga only, the other had vga/dvi. Had my tower, 360, and stb hooked up. Fucking dumbass cable tech told me I wouldn't be able to use the stb with a monitor.
HDMI to dvi to vga for the stb. Then the rca audio to 3.5 headphone jack to the microphone jack on the back of the tower. 360 had to buy the vga adapter which also had rca audio so another 3.5 adapter to the front mic input. Then got the mic inputs to play through shitty USb speakers.
Tower always had a dedicated monitor and the xbox/cable shared one.
>>52378018
Dat Blue Yeti.
I've been planning on getting a boom for mine, but the good ones require about $100 for something strong enough to hold the Yeti's girth.
