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Now that Oxford Dictionary has added the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.
With each new update to the online version of the Oxford Dictionary, one can practically hear the laments of pedantic grammarians far and wide. This week, among a few dozen new words, we got “awesomesauce” (having nothing to do with sauce at all) and “mkay” (as in, OK … mkay). Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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In the age of all things DIY, MacGyver has become the patron saint of the hack. And if there’s one thing we love here at TreeHugger, it’s a good hack. A clever use of materials allows old things to live longer, creates new uses for things that may be obsolete, and can basically become a super sustainable way to obviate the need to purchase more and more and more new stuff. Long live the hack! So with that in mind, here’s a round-up of some of our best MacGyver moments.
What follows is a long list of hacks. Some are contrived, some are clever but too niche, some might be useful. Anybody have any to add to the list? Mine is poking string into the can of bacon & chicken grease in the kitchen to make a quick tallow lamp. Works well.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 31 2015, @09:45PM
I kept my 4GB Sandisk precisely because of how bad phones suck at this task, with the Sandisk I have tactile feel to let me switch tunes and change volume which I have yet to find a smartphone that does this well. oh yeah and I get 27 HOURS on a single triple A battery that takes less than 2 minutes to swap, most smartphones just suck power when playing audio.
And all of the things you listed involved tablets...NOT smartphones. Sure a 7 inch tablet can be used as a video streamer but nobody is gonna want to watch video on the kind of screens smartphones had a couple years ago. This is why I like PCs and just barely tolerate smartphones as a PC? You can always find a use for it, media tank, retro gaming system, jukebox, but with most smartphones you do more than basic tasks with the thing and you can just watch the battery get sucked dry so despite the power of these "pocket computers" they just end up in a landfill or in a drawer. Hell its not even useful for retro gaming for me as I grabbed a PSP knock off from a Chinese website for $8 that plays GBA and SFC and gets several hours on a charge.
So when it comes to smartphones? I guess other than using them to shore up a wobbly table there really is no use for the things.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.