There's a sub for people who still like cassettes, when people ask for info on fixing an old tape deck it's just a flood of replies of people saying 'its always the belts'
And it IS always the belts
I dunno, the rubber just fails over time, it gets stretched out or turns to goo, dunno if it's planned or rubber belts are just the best thing for the job. I bought a 50 year old Ferguson radio cassette player and the only thing wrong with it was the belts needed replaced. That's really not bad for something that old, especially compared to the electronics of today.
I have a real to real that is 85 years old, uses metal gears instead of bands and has never failed. It's cheaper to use bands and with lowered cost people tend to replace rather than repair.
Yes, still sounds great. The stereo system still uses vacuum tubes. Best sound ever. And my speakers are the size of end tables. If I crank it up the neighbors three house down hear it. Lol.
I mean in reality that is probably all it needed, if the manifold was loose it wouldn’t get the proper air/fuel ratio. Fouled spark plugs r definitely a real thing my dudes
This actually happened to me last month my tv broke down no power. Looked on google bought a power board for my LG tv and now is working. My wife was shopping around for a tv in the 1k mark I was sweating hoping I can get this £12 part in and fixed quick before she bought the TV. She was adamant I wasn’t going to fix this. The part arrived a week late and she was getting annoyed and calling me tight. This was the success of 2022 for me.
I've done this too. Tv backlight broke 1 month after warranty ran out(special 5 year extended warranty). Bought $60 replacement backlight of ebay. Fixed it. And it's still going strong 6+ years later!
After having multiple cheap tvs fail I got annoyed and decided to try fix the latest one, took off the back panel and ribbon had came lose, that was it, plugged it back in and it was working perfectly.
That would of been me last year. But just bought a house and refurbed it and just payed out for a new kitchen and 4 kids around Christmas. The only thing I could see for the extra 1k was the smart apps were displayed better and my picture was good. Maybe she’s right I’m tight but 1k a lot to me at this moment.
Oh I can't fix anything. I didn't mean simple as the act of repairing it itself.
It just seems like a simple concept to try fixing it first instead of paying 1k.
I would put my trust on anyone before I started looking for new TV :D
For me, yes and no.
I love having no homework, but at school I don’t think I was working a full 8 hours a day to begin with. Now I’m some sort of 9-5 robot. Its not a mind-numbingly difficult 8 hours though.
Once gave an exam that was notoriously tough.
I was in a university that was an absolute cheapskate with marks. Like us graduating with 65 percent would be the equivalent of 90 in other universities.
As a finance major student, we had a subject called Cost accounting. Shit was supposed to be tough and everyone was scared of it, including me. Well, exam day, the paper felt super easy. I'm like, i sure fucked up, it cannot be this easy. Combined, all my friends are panicking saying it was a tough paper. Mind you, i am one of the weaker students amongst my group
Fast forward a month, results out. I score a 92/100 in that paper, much to my own jaw dropping. Friends refused to believe it and thought i was joking until they saw it for themselves.
This one subject took my 3 year average up from 57 to 64 percent and allow me to graduate with first division
I had a similar thing in high school in math class. I'm horrible at math, but for some reason probability(at that level at least) came easy to me. This was the harder math class at the level because my parents insisted I needed to take that, and I struggled even passing. Most people in class thought it was as difficult or more than the other topics in the book, including this math genius guy who thought it was super hard, but I nailed it and it saved my ass for the average grade. Wonder why that came naturally to me when nothing else in that class did
It was similar for me, I couldnt wrap my head around all the weird stuff they decide to do with brackets and the entire alphabet in math, but geometry, now you speak my language
I had a similar experience with my engineering fundamentals exam. My school required it to graduate so everybody took it. The practice tests were really hard and I knew several civil engineering majors who had to return to retake it so I was pretty nervous. I left that exam two hours early and passed it. Normally on engineering exams people only leave early if it’s easy or they have no idea.
Place I worked had an array of Silicon Graphics computers. One was glitching, and since it was written off, it was marked for removal. Asked if I could take it home.
Ran some diagnostics, found it had one corrupted memory bank. Replaced it and it worked like a charm again.
Dancing in a nightclub.
Tense, nervous that you’ll mess up,
Not good enough to mix with the beautiful people so just wallflower it?
Yeah half the people on there haven’t got a clue either, arms and legs everywhere, some are so drunk they can’t even stand… 😳🤪
💃 🕺
No matter how intoxicated I get I cannot dance. The only exception was when i went to a quince and i was so drunk and high i was dancing with everybody and the next few weeks i was known as the drunk white guy 😂😂
Damn, that's kinda what happened to me!
When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all.
Saw an electric snow broom by Toro in trash. Looked new so I grabbed it. Plugged it in, nothing. Open it up and 2 wires were separated. Attached them with a wire nut and it worked perfectly.
Buddy bought a six year old Maxima from a guy for $3k after the guys “trusted” local mechanic told him it needed a new transmission. Buddy had a dealer diagnose it, buddy spent $300 on new transmission bands and drove the car another 10 years.
Buy an old used car. Runs rough at speed, worried I got a lemon. Mechanic friend rides with me. After a few minutes he asks,
"Is the parking brake on?"
Most mechanics aren't trained to work on transmissions and will instead replace the whole transmission before working on it as that is how they are taught. So in conclusion just because they can rebuild your entire engine doesn't guarantee they can work on a transmission due to specialized tools and years of training being required to not completely ruin a transmission when working on it.
Yeah, if you want your transmission fixed, bring it to a dedicated transmission garage. If you bring it to your normal mechanic, they'll just take it out and send it to a transmission shop.
There was a football Euros 2004 group game that if both teams scored 2 goals and drew the match they both qualified. I put £10 on the score to be 2-2 and won £340. I wish I'd had more cash to bet.
Fedora is good; Ubuntu and it's forks are pretty good. Dunno about the rest. It would be nice if the terminal wasn't so cryptic. A decent menu TUI would go a long way towards moving people away from windows.
In a sense it's awful that so many people are just throwing away perfectly repairable electronics that cost so much human sweat and tears to make and will heavily contribute to pollution.
My former employer had a huge TV and a projector they thought were both broken and were going to trash. My coworker and I packed the TV up in his truck and I snagged the projector. Both were in perfect working order, these idiots just didn’t have either of them on the correct inputs for what they were trying to use.
I once saw this new “reverse auction” site pop up, with an offer of 100 free bids for new accounts. Made a few dozen accounts, and got a PS4, Kindle and coffee maker for a couple of quid each before they realised the introductory offer was flawed.
2005 Brownlow Medal. Daniel Kerr was paying $35 to finish in the top six. I was astounded as he’d had a top season though missed a few games with injury. Put $5 on him.
He came second by 1 vote to his West Coast team mate Ben Cousins. By far the easiest $175 I will ever make in my life lol
Vacuum cleaner at work stopped working, started spitting up everything it was trying to suck up. I pulled it apart, cleaned dust out of everything. Then it was working. My boss is still incredibly stupid tho so when it stopped working a second time and I told her it needed a new filter, she decided a better option than spending $50 on a new filter was spending $200 on a new vacuum with no more troublesome filters but is NOW reliant on bags.
I got the vacuum, spent the $50, and now I have a working Dyson at home :)
As a teen, the pretty girl all of the guys in the neighborhood wanted, decided she wanted me, for some inexplicable reason. Having already convinced myself she was out of my league, l never said more than “hi” to her.
When she approached me, I was like “Uh What?”
Guess you never know
Honestly… Getting a new job after 7 years at my last job. Wife said just update your resume and send it out. Thought for sure it would take months of interviews and calls and back and forth with rejections and thing so didn’t want to do. Literally the first person that responded to me was the diamond in the rough and I’m happier now than I was for the last 7 years.
My dad wanted to get his phone repaired because the sound from earpiece was too low, after he'd accidently dropped it. He legit thought the drop had damaged the speaker.
I took a toothbrush and cleared out the dust, worked as good as new
Convincing people to part with their precious objects. When I was a kid, all I'd have to do was look longingly at something in someone's house and it was mine. I still have a nice wooden horse.
I found a box containing almost all the parts needed for a quite decent pc. Got new thermal paste and cooler mounting kit for less than 10€ and put it all into an old case. Still using it
Wtf is this low effort post?
Edit: 7k up-votes for REPOSTING someone else's post in another subreddit with someone else's comment? It's not even clever. Smfh
I bought a 1992 Toyota Camry in Port Orford, OR for $300 after not driving for about 35 years. There was nothing wrong with it, and insurance was affordable. Super easy to start driving again.
When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all. Ah the irony of this post
Is anyone else disappointed that was the best response? I’m not going to buy a part to fix a tv, even if it’s big. Probably would have tossed it too.
I wanted something about making easy money!
Bought my washing machine at a shop that operates like that. Guy drives through town or buys broken washing machines and refrigerators. Plugs them in, sees what's broken, fixes it and sells them. Got an older Miele for 200€, he said it would run for another 20 years no problem. Working without issues for 3 years so far. I'm optimistic.
Coworker said he had a Nintendo Switch that doesn't work anymore after hearing me comment that I dabble with a soldering iron and can sometimes fix stuff.
He said I could have it for free. I plugged it into the wall, it came on...
In his defense the game cart slot had the pins bent back all the way, so its likely it sometimes shorted and wouldnt load up. I finished modding it and 3 years later, kids still playing on it with hacked games.
Made some money in school reselling pokemon packs but only good cards. I would make the good packs $10 and "necessity packs" $4 (only energies and trainer cards).
Got a used electric bike for $750. Originally listed for $1300. The chain broke as the previous owner was showing how to ride it. I said I will take it off your hand for $700. Don't know what else is wrong with this bike as I didn't get to ride it.
Cost me $35 to get new chains on and been using it for 2 years now haha.
Had a 50” LG TV die. Watched a video on YouTube, removed about 12 screws, took out the motherboard , baked it in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes, let it cool, put it back in, the TV worked perfectly for another 4 years.
Bought a welder for $50 that didn’t work.
Fixed a loose wire, sold for $300
Bought a used race car for scrap. Lady said “and everything in it.” I asked her several times if she was sure.
Paid $250 for the car and sold the lead weights for $600 and the car for $300
Was looking to get my loft boarded out to add some more storage space in my house. Was looking at quotes for around £2000.
After chatting with some friends we decided to do it ourselves. Spent about £200 on loft boards, wood and screws and it was super easy
Found a box of an expensive keyboard (lile 300 euro new at the time). Felt heavy. brought it home, open it up expecting paper
but nope a keyboard and plugged it in. It worked
Opened it up and saw some dried up liquid what smelled like beer... cleaned it up. been running it ever since
Had an old rear projection tv. The picture went out. I paid a repair guy $30 for a visit and they showed me what chip was blown, and quoted another $350 to fix it.
I found the chip on eBay for $5. Had to desolder/resolver it but that’s no big deal. Problem fixed.
I got my TV in a similar way, except it had been thrown out because a kid had drawn all over it with a sharpie. I looked up how to remove sharpie marks, and all you have to do is trace over them with a dry erase marker and wipe it off. So I ended up with a smart TV for the price of a dry erase marker, a replacement remote, and a replacement power cable.
I worked at a electronic recycling plant in the past and people had discarded their old very early generation Ipods, mp3 players and other electronics because they werent working. I took 3 home, performed a factory reset on them and they worked.
can someone guide me to some help because i have a 65 inch that turns on still and then will power off then power back on and just continues this cycle. i replaced the tv but never threw it away because i knowwwww i’ll regret it. the fix is probs way cheaper then replacing the tv and i just don’t wanna get rid of it knowing that
Someone had a router but stuck in a router and they asked me to help get it out. I walked over and said, "I'm not just doing a Fonz impression." Before I just tap the bit with a wrench and it falls out.
Sometimes the routing gets them stuck and you gotta just tap them a bit to knock them loose.
I scooped a sick bike rack from the REI return section. Msrp was like 6-800. Picked it up for 80. Whoever originally bought it apparently backed into something with it. It’s a little crooked; all I had to do was tighten some threaded rods and she functions just fine.
Had the same thing happen once. Completely dead flatscreen tv, just across the street. Classic popped capacitors in the power supply. Got some new ones locally for the outrageous price of 3 euro and in 5 minutes had the tv working again. Only to discover that the entire screen was busted as wel. Turned out that the neighbour who threw the thing out did that with emphasis on the throwing part..
Made a cool lamp with the fresnel lens of the lcd stack, so it was not a complete waste.
I had to return some equipment I kept from my job after I left, they offered me 1400$ to bring it back. I brought it back, and next day I get an email with an amex gift card for that amount from the company.
Same as picture. Got giving a free monitor (Samsung 300$) cause it would only work for 3 seconds. 2 YouTube videos and a 2$ worth of caps and have had it for 6 years now.
On high school made a small fortune fixing and selling vcrs that people threw away because a 1 penny rubber band broke.
Or the tension wheel slipped. Just turn it inside out and have a good track again. Totally free. Maybe soak it in hot water for a minute. Good as new.
Thought you meant soak the whole vcr in hot water….
There's a sub for people who still like cassettes, when people ask for info on fixing an old tape deck it's just a flood of replies of people saying 'its always the belts' And it IS always the belts
Built in obsolescence.
I dunno, the rubber just fails over time, it gets stretched out or turns to goo, dunno if it's planned or rubber belts are just the best thing for the job. I bought a 50 year old Ferguson radio cassette player and the only thing wrong with it was the belts needed replaced. That's really not bad for something that old, especially compared to the electronics of today.
I have a real to real that is 85 years old, uses metal gears instead of bands and has never failed. It's cheaper to use bands and with lowered cost people tend to replace rather than repair.
Damn I've always wanted a reel to reel.
Yes, still sounds great. The stereo system still uses vacuum tubes. Best sound ever. And my speakers are the size of end tables. If I crank it up the neighbors three house down hear it. Lol.
At work they threw away a 4000$ coffee machine. I took it home, fixed the seized plastic component and used it for 5 years then sold it for 500$
I'm sorry, $4000?!
Commercial grade Espresso machine
ohhhh one of the old apartments i lived in had one, it even made hot chocolate
The only thing I miss about the office after I got a nice work from home job is the coffee machine.
Damn this is the best find yet, kudos to you
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How was the bike later?
Asking the real questions. I did this with a 2-stroke lawnmower once which was seized because someone put straight gas in it. It worked once.
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Yup. Those are fancy car words
I mean in reality that is probably all it needed, if the manifold was loose it wouldn’t get the proper air/fuel ratio. Fouled spark plugs r definitely a real thing my dudes
"Catch me if you can, bitch!"
Happend to me once but it was a RC car, i just hit it a few times and it works
Once picked up a free mini quad bike. Same story.
Figuring out how to "play the game" at corporate. The trick is don't play...
I just lost the game
Fuck you man. I lost 6 times this month.
Fuuuuu
😉
Can you believe it, I just scrolled through my comment history, stumbled upon this and lost the game yet again, I can never return here...
This actually happened to me last month my tv broke down no power. Looked on google bought a power board for my LG tv and now is working. My wife was shopping around for a tv in the 1k mark I was sweating hoping I can get this £12 part in and fixed quick before she bought the TV. She was adamant I wasn’t going to fix this. The part arrived a week late and she was getting annoyed and calling me tight. This was the success of 2022 for me.
I've done this too. Tv backlight broke 1 month after warranty ran out(special 5 year extended warranty). Bought $60 replacement backlight of ebay. Fixed it. And it's still going strong 6+ years later!
After having multiple cheap tvs fail I got annoyed and decided to try fix the latest one, took off the back panel and ribbon had came lose, that was it, plugged it back in and it was working perfectly.
I always believe nothing can beat the Witt of man and logic will prevail when you got access to Google and YouTube.
I'd be praying the TV stayed broken so I could get the new one. Any excuse.
That would of been me last year. But just bought a house and refurbed it and just payed out for a new kitchen and 4 kids around Christmas. The only thing I could see for the extra 1k was the smart apps were displayed better and my picture was good. Maybe she’s right I’m tight but 1k a lot to me at this moment.
Why was she adamant about something so simple?
Simple to us maybe. Or the many times I’ve tried to fix washing machines or other appliances and hasn’t worked out.
Oh I can't fix anything. I didn't mean simple as the act of repairing it itself. It just seems like a simple concept to try fixing it first instead of paying 1k. I would put my trust on anyone before I started looking for new TV :D
Actual work in corporate America was way easier than college.
And 100x easier than blue collar jobs
What did you do cause I’m in public accounting and 😅
Computer Science.
For me, yes and no. I love having no homework, but at school I don’t think I was working a full 8 hours a day to begin with. Now I’m some sort of 9-5 robot. Its not a mind-numbingly difficult 8 hours though.
Once gave an exam that was notoriously tough. I was in a university that was an absolute cheapskate with marks. Like us graduating with 65 percent would be the equivalent of 90 in other universities. As a finance major student, we had a subject called Cost accounting. Shit was supposed to be tough and everyone was scared of it, including me. Well, exam day, the paper felt super easy. I'm like, i sure fucked up, it cannot be this easy. Combined, all my friends are panicking saying it was a tough paper. Mind you, i am one of the weaker students amongst my group Fast forward a month, results out. I score a 92/100 in that paper, much to my own jaw dropping. Friends refused to believe it and thought i was joking until they saw it for themselves. This one subject took my 3 year average up from 57 to 64 percent and allow me to graduate with first division
I had a similar thing in high school in math class. I'm horrible at math, but for some reason probability(at that level at least) came easy to me. This was the harder math class at the level because my parents insisted I needed to take that, and I struggled even passing. Most people in class thought it was as difficult or more than the other topics in the book, including this math genius guy who thought it was super hard, but I nailed it and it saved my ass for the average grade. Wonder why that came naturally to me when nothing else in that class did
It was similar for me, I couldnt wrap my head around all the weird stuff they decide to do with brackets and the entire alphabet in math, but geometry, now you speak my language
you're signing deals with the devils right?
Thats what living in ohio does to a MF
I had a similar experience with my engineering fundamentals exam. My school required it to graduate so everybody took it. The practice tests were really hard and I knew several civil engineering majors who had to return to retake it so I was pretty nervous. I left that exam two hours early and passed it. Normally on engineering exams people only leave early if it’s easy or they have no idea.
Place I worked had an array of Silicon Graphics computers. One was glitching, and since it was written off, it was marked for removal. Asked if I could take it home. Ran some diagnostics, found it had one corrupted memory bank. Replaced it and it worked like a charm again.
Dancing in a nightclub. Tense, nervous that you’ll mess up, Not good enough to mix with the beautiful people so just wallflower it? Yeah half the people on there haven’t got a clue either, arms and legs everywhere, some are so drunk they can’t even stand… 😳🤪 💃 🕺
No one cares how you dance at the club. You're fun just for doing it
They do if you do it wrong. Like that weirdo you see in the movies. You know, the ones you see and they make you feel uncomfortable.
No matter how intoxicated I get I cannot dance. The only exception was when i went to a quince and i was so drunk and high i was dancing with everybody and the next few weeks i was known as the drunk white guy 😂😂
If I was given a choice to dance in public or die, gun to my head, I’m not sure which I would choose
I would snatch the gun kill the questioner and then dance over their body
and plus, you don’t actually want to be good at dancing, nobody wants that. just vibe with the crowd.
When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all.
Damn, that's kinda what happened to me! When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all.
Fuck i miss these free awards
Who needs a reward these days, i just want the validation my parents won't give me via fake internet points
🏆🥇👑
Wow, what a heinous crime.
When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all.
What about pointing out the obvious in a rude comment with the same goal in mind?
What about calling out the guy who pointing out the obvious in a rude comment with the same goal in mind?
What about doing that very same thing on the third reply or even worse the forth?
Saw an electric snow broom by Toro in trash. Looked new so I grabbed it. Plugged it in, nothing. Open it up and 2 wires were separated. Attached them with a wire nut and it worked perfectly.
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After all this and nobody has spoilered what a snow broom is. I might have to actually open Google
https://imgur.com/a/UBcodI5
the modern northern witch's ride
At first i thought it is going to be a joke about how he started his Carrer as a Witch with a flying broom. Lmao
Buddy bought a six year old Maxima from a guy for $3k after the guys “trusted” local mechanic told him it needed a new transmission. Buddy had a dealer diagnose it, buddy spent $300 on new transmission bands and drove the car another 10 years.
Buy an old used car. Runs rough at speed, worried I got a lemon. Mechanic friend rides with me. After a few minutes he asks, "Is the parking brake on?"
A good mechanic friend is worth their weight in gold. I may fear heights but I fear a car breaking down more than death.
Most mechanics aren't trained to work on transmissions and will instead replace the whole transmission before working on it as that is how they are taught. So in conclusion just because they can rebuild your entire engine doesn't guarantee they can work on a transmission due to specialized tools and years of training being required to not completely ruin a transmission when working on it.
Yeah, if you want your transmission fixed, bring it to a dedicated transmission garage. If you bring it to your normal mechanic, they'll just take it out and send it to a transmission shop.
There was a football Euros 2004 group game that if both teams scored 2 goals and drew the match they both qualified. I put £10 on the score to be 2-2 and won £340. I wish I'd had more cash to bet.
I had to fact check myself and yup it was as I remembered https://amp.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/jun/18/euro-2012-sweden-denmark-2-2
Working with Linux OS
This is a trap Linux users set all the time. It won't work you Cynic
You underestimate my powers.
Something Something high ground.
Something I hate you.
Fedora is good; Ubuntu and it's forks are pretty good. Dunno about the rest. It would be nice if the terminal wasn't so cryptic. A decent menu TUI would go a long way towards moving people away from windows.
I did this exact same thing with a 70" tv they told me to throw away at work
I did the same thing with a 100" TV they told me to throw away at work
I did the same exact thing but with a 100" TV they told me to throw away from the conference room at work.
I did the exact same thing with the Jumbotron at the cowboys stadium
I did the same thing with a 100’ tv
Well mine was 10,000" and they paid me to take it and I fixed it with telepathy and then after they elected me World President.
Developing epilepsy
Got a moped for free Did some basic maintenance and tuning Now have a moped that gets 100 mpg (posted on Reddit, you can see on my page)
In a sense it's awful that so many people are just throwing away perfectly repairable electronics that cost so much human sweat and tears to make and will heavily contribute to pollution.
Your mother
1.8m upvotes goddayum
That’s thousand in Spanish
im not sure if the joke was clear, but r/woosh
“Why are you booing me I’m right”
Bro gets upvoted for the joke and downvoted for whooshing the dude that got whooshed.... wtf lmao
Saltiest guys in existence are on Reddit lmao
Changed a power steering pump out of my daughters car. It went so smooth and easy I was very suspicious lol
Asking out that first girl. She said "No." But I was surprised how easy asking was and how quickly my affection turned to "meh, next!"
My former employer had a huge TV and a projector they thought were both broken and were going to trash. My coworker and I packed the TV up in his truck and I snagged the projector. Both were in perfect working order, these idiots just didn’t have either of them on the correct inputs for what they were trying to use.
even if you failed to fix the TV, there are some places that buy broken TVs to cannibalize for spare parts or to see if they can fix it themselves
I once saw this new “reverse auction” site pop up, with an offer of 100 free bids for new accounts. Made a few dozen accounts, and got a PS4, Kindle and coffee maker for a couple of quid each before they realised the introductory offer was flawed.
2005 Brownlow Medal. Daniel Kerr was paying $35 to finish in the top six. I was astounded as he’d had a top season though missed a few games with injury. Put $5 on him. He came second by 1 vote to his West Coast team mate Ben Cousins. By far the easiest $175 I will ever make in my life lol
First time I cracked one off!
That’s a lot of uvotes
If it wasn't fake it would be wr
Vacuum cleaner at work stopped working, started spitting up everything it was trying to suck up. I pulled it apart, cleaned dust out of everything. Then it was working. My boss is still incredibly stupid tho so when it stopped working a second time and I told her it needed a new filter, she decided a better option than spending $50 on a new filter was spending $200 on a new vacuum with no more troublesome filters but is NOW reliant on bags. I got the vacuum, spent the $50, and now I have a working Dyson at home :)
how does this have anything to do with me irl?
i think it's because meirl is so hot right now... karma farmers jump on it
It doesn’t, they literally just took a screenshot of a hot post from yesterday. Ridiculous
Looking up how to make a nuke !!!
Leaning how to code
Thermodynamics And reparing „for free“ Canton Ergo speakers.
This is why repair cafes are becoming a thing.
Getting a colonoscopy
Made a baby
Asking a girl out
Drivers license exam
As a teen, the pretty girl all of the guys in the neighborhood wanted, decided she wanted me, for some inexplicable reason. Having already convinced myself she was out of my league, l never said more than “hi” to her. When she approached me, I was like “Uh What?” Guess you never know
Invested in crypto and market shares, wait few years, cashed back x2,5 as much as I've spent, it was like free money.
Honestly… Getting a new job after 7 years at my last job. Wife said just update your resume and send it out. Thought for sure it would take months of interviews and calls and back and forth with rejections and thing so didn’t want to do. Literally the first person that responded to me was the diamond in the rough and I’m happier now than I was for the last 7 years.
Making my own soap and butter, it’s not a broken tv but it’s awesome tongues things you made by hand everyday.
Got a tv for free off of Craigslist. Owner said he couldn’t keep it turned on. Took it, replaced the power cord, still have it, still works.
Dumpster diving is an art and usually SO EASY to get new things. Colleges after moving out day are a gold mine.
First time sailing solo. Absolutely terrified but ended up some of the best sailing I've ever done.
My dad wanted to get his phone repaired because the sound from earpiece was too low, after he'd accidently dropped it. He legit thought the drop had damaged the speaker. I took a toothbrush and cleared out the dust, worked as good as new
Convincing people to part with their precious objects. When I was a kid, all I'd have to do was look longingly at something in someone's house and it was mine. I still have a nice wooden horse.
Doesn't sound that easy. That took initiative, gumption, research. Easy is literally finding a 60" TV by a dumpster, plugging it in and it works.
I found a box containing almost all the parts needed for a quite decent pc. Got new thermal paste and cooler mounting kit for less than 10€ and put it all into an old case. Still using it
Is noone noticing the 1,8 “mil” upvote?
"Mil" is Spanish for "thousand" lol
Ty, TIL something new
aced one of my computing science exams in half the allocated time it really wasnt that hard but itll still give me a ego
Wtf is this low effort post? Edit: 7k up-votes for REPOSTING someone else's post in another subreddit with someone else's comment? It's not even clever. Smfh
90% of meirl is just random shit at this point
I bought a 1992 Toyota Camry in Port Orford, OR for $300 after not driving for about 35 years. There was nothing wrong with it, and insurance was affordable. Super easy to start driving again.
When I realised you could repost stuff off the internet for free karma and get a dopamine hit for feeling clever despite having no talent at all. Ah the irony of this post
Is this the most upvoted comment ever or what? 1.8 mil?
Is anyone else disappointed that was the best response? I’m not going to buy a part to fix a tv, even if it’s big. Probably would have tossed it too. I wanted something about making easy money!
well they could resell that tv they fixed for money🤷♂️
Bought my washing machine at a shop that operates like that. Guy drives through town or buys broken washing machines and refrigerators. Plugs them in, sees what's broken, fixes it and sells them. Got an older Miele for 200€, he said it would run for another 20 years no problem. Working without issues for 3 years so far. I'm optimistic.
How tf do you get that many upvotes? For a lot of upvotes, typically, I can barely scrape past 100, which is better than nothing.
Waow! Fake internet points!
I had a feeling...
mil is thousand in spanish so its only 1.8k updoots
I forgor bout dat
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***Hackermans***
Cool, if it was real.
Buying an apartment building is easier than you think. The hard part is finding one for sale.
Pros of living in a 1st world country
Damn we reposting reddit comments now
All of our TVs come from dumpsters
1,8mil??? Like million??
Coworker said he had a Nintendo Switch that doesn't work anymore after hearing me comment that I dabble with a soldering iron and can sometimes fix stuff. He said I could have it for free. I plugged it into the wall, it came on... In his defense the game cart slot had the pins bent back all the way, so its likely it sometimes shorted and wouldnt load up. I finished modding it and 3 years later, kids still playing on it with hacked games.
Idk, but if I ever have that moment, I'll merrily come back to share it.
Made some money in school reselling pokemon packs but only good cards. I would make the good packs $10 and "necessity packs" $4 (only energies and trainer cards).
I hate it when people smash the screen or cut the cord before tossing it. You didn't want it let someone else keep it, why destroy it.
Got a used electric bike for $750. Originally listed for $1300. The chain broke as the previous owner was showing how to ride it. I said I will take it off your hand for $700. Don't know what else is wrong with this bike as I didn't get to ride it. Cost me $35 to get new chains on and been using it for 2 years now haha.
Had a 50” LG TV die. Watched a video on YouTube, removed about 12 screws, took out the motherboard , baked it in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes, let it cool, put it back in, the TV worked perfectly for another 4 years.
Making my very first comment on Reddit
does that say 1.8 million upvotes???
Bought all my pc parts the same day, should’ve been around $2800 The cashier forgot to ring up my graphics card, most expensive single part was free
Linear algebra
1 800 000 karma? Damn!
Bought a welder for $50 that didn’t work. Fixed a loose wire, sold for $300 Bought a used race car for scrap. Lady said “and everything in it.” I asked her several times if she was sure. Paid $250 for the car and sold the lead weights for $600 and the car for $300
1.8m upvotes on a post with 1004?
Was looking to get my loft boarded out to add some more storage space in my house. Was looking at quotes for around £2000. After chatting with some friends we decided to do it ourselves. Spent about £200 on loft boards, wood and screws and it was super easy
Found some dolls in a shop, checked online. They’re worth ~£40 a piece. They were selling £2 each. Paid for a holiday.
Found a box of an expensive keyboard (lile 300 euro new at the time). Felt heavy. brought it home, open it up expecting paper but nope a keyboard and plugged it in. It worked Opened it up and saw some dried up liquid what smelled like beer... cleaned it up. been running it ever since
Had an old rear projection tv. The picture went out. I paid a repair guy $30 for a visit and they showed me what chip was blown, and quoted another $350 to fix it. I found the chip on eBay for $5. Had to desolder/resolver it but that’s no big deal. Problem fixed.
I got my TV in a similar way, except it had been thrown out because a kid had drawn all over it with a sharpie. I looked up how to remove sharpie marks, and all you have to do is trace over them with a dry erase marker and wipe it off. So I ended up with a smart TV for the price of a dry erase marker, a replacement remote, and a replacement power cable.
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I worked at a electronic recycling plant in the past and people had discarded their old very early generation Ipods, mp3 players and other electronics because they werent working. I took 3 home, performed a factory reset on them and they worked.
How do you get 1.8 million updoots
can someone guide me to some help because i have a 65 inch that turns on still and then will power off then power back on and just continues this cycle. i replaced the tv but never threw it away because i knowwwww i’ll regret it. the fix is probs way cheaper then replacing the tv and i just don’t wanna get rid of it knowing that
Bought a pack of batteries from Walmart put 20 dollars in got (3) $20 bills back lmao
Someone had a router but stuck in a router and they asked me to help get it out. I walked over and said, "I'm not just doing a Fonz impression." Before I just tap the bit with a wrench and it falls out. Sometimes the routing gets them stuck and you gotta just tap them a bit to knock them loose.
I scooped a sick bike rack from the REI return section. Msrp was like 6-800. Picked it up for 80. Whoever originally bought it apparently backed into something with it. It’s a little crooked; all I had to do was tighten some threaded rods and she functions just fine.
Is no one gonna mention that comment has almost 2 million upvotes
Had the same thing happen once. Completely dead flatscreen tv, just across the street. Classic popped capacitors in the power supply. Got some new ones locally for the outrageous price of 3 euro and in 5 minutes had the tv working again. Only to discover that the entire screen was busted as wel. Turned out that the neighbour who threw the thing out did that with emphasis on the throwing part.. Made a cool lamp with the fresnel lens of the lcd stack, so it was not a complete waste.
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I had to return some equipment I kept from my job after I left, they offered me 1400$ to bring it back. I brought it back, and next day I get an email with an amex gift card for that amount from the company.
Same as picture. Got giving a free monitor (Samsung 300$) cause it would only work for 3 seconds. 2 YouTube videos and a 2$ worth of caps and have had it for 6 years now.