#tech hacks

[mandareeboo]

Since I've somehow become known as the "tech guru" in my family despite not knowing a lick electronics, I'm realizing that a lot of people just. Don't realize you can clean your fucking electronics?

Guys. Rubbing alcohol is perfectly safe on most electronics (check first) in small amounts (don't. Dip. your tech.) because it dries so fast. A screwdriver and a q-tip will fix goddamn near most problems the average person will have over time.

Gunky keys? Unplug the thing and get some rubbing alcohol up in there. Console not starting? Give it a quick clean. Take pictures while you're doing it so you know exactly where everything goes.

Don't pry anything up! If it's stuck together with anything, it's meant to be that way, and opening it will likely do some fuckshit. I've learned by force. Leave that to the people who get paid to do it. Don't reef on anything electronic in general. Unscrew what opens and clean what you can. That's it. No more.

It's not a cure-all! But it should be a first option before you pay someone to fix your machine.

[disease]

a seamless integration of playlists, artists & albums from platform to platform. switching from Spotify has been one of the best decisions i’ve made all year. your turn!

[vinzotech-blog]

90% of SaaS Startups Fail. Here’s How to Pick a Niche in the 10% That Survive.

"Raise your hand if you’ve ever: ▸ Spent hours brainstorming SaaS ideas… only to realize the market’s already saturated. ▸ Panic-googled ‘how to validate a business idea’ at 2 AM. ▸ Wondered why your ‘brilliant’ SaaS idea isn’t getting traction.

Here’s the tea: Finding profitable SaaS niches isn’t about creativity—it’s about strategy.

I just dropped a blog post breaking down: ✅ The weirdly effective way to spot pain points in overlooked industries (think: niche forums, Reddit rants, and angry Twitter threads). ✅ How to validate demand for free (no coding or $$$ required). ✅ 3 red flags that your ‘perfect’ niche is a sinking ship.

Real example: How a founder tapped into a boring industry (pet insurance analytics??) and hit $50k/mo.

 Read the full guide here from the link below

[virtualgirladvance]

Friend reminded me my duct tape fix for her wireless card is still working.

Had to mask out a pin that the drivers would send a kill Sig to the Bluetooth line on boot but then never wake it up again.

Seriously this bug had been in the firmware for ages at this point and stopped anyone from using wifi and Bluetooth at the same time on a 90+$ wireless card. Like wtf

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[ansonchan1998]

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[instanttoolspro]

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क्या है QR कोड और क्यों है इतना जरूरी?

आज के डिजिटल जमाने में अगर आपकी कोई वेबसाइट, लिंक, पेमेंट, Wi-Fi या बिज़नेस कार्ड है — तो एक QR कोड आपके काम को बहुत आसान बना सकता है। बस स्कैन कीजिए और तुरंत एक्शन!

लेकिन सवाल उठता है — "QR Code बनाएं कैसे?"

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[squaredtechco]

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[guyrcook]

Do you have Tech Hacks to Transform Your Business

This episode of Practical Digital Strategies offers tech hacks to revolutionize small businesses, emphasizing the use of project management software like Trello for streamlined operations, automation tools like Zapier to boost productivity, and business intelligence platforms such as Google Analytics for data-driven decision-making. It also suggests CRM software like HubSpot for managing customer…

[1trilliongrams]

Chrome users:

1. Type chrome://flags in your address bar

2. Search for “download bubble”

3. Set “enable download bubble” to “disabled”

You’re welcome.

[catgirlbulge]

Hey y'all, there's been a zero-day vulnerability found in WinRAR, so you gotta update it if you're on an older version (anything below 6.24/6.23). It doesn't auto update so you need to do it manually. It's been around for a few months and has been fixed, but if you don't update your shit then your computer will still be vulnerable.

please reblog this so that people learn about it or whatever (10/19/23)

[stealingyourbones]

Danny’s ghost form was harder to hold together the farther away he was from the ghost portal. A solution found by Danny & Tucker was to create a robot body that Danny could possess that stabilized his form. The ectoplasm molding itself into the machine and possession causing Danny to become one with the tech, letting him not only use his ghost powers but also unique weaponry and gadgets built into his robot body.

An added bonus is that no one thinks he’s a ghost or even a human.

[lokirme]

Macbook Battery Stats in Your ZSH Terminal Prompt

As a power user of my Macbook, I’ve found that I often overlook the small battery icon on my menu bar, especially when I’m immersed in a fun project. This minor inconvenience sparked a thought: why not incorporate the battery status directly into my terminal prompt? Thus, I embarked on a fun exploration into ZSH scripting. With a bit of coding magic, I was able to enhance my terminal prompt to…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again)

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me in PITTSBURGH on May 15 at WHITE WHALE BOOKS, and in PDX on Jun 20 at BARNES AND NOBLE with BUNNIE HUANG. More tour dates (London, Manchester) here.

Mark Zuckerberg has told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make advertisements that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything. In other words, Meta will make an AI mind-control ray and rent it out to grateful advertisers.

Here, Zuck is fulfilling the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies. Every dollar Meta brings in boosts their share price to a much greater degree than the dollars earned by companies with similar rates of profit, but slower rates of growth. This premium represents a bet by investors that Meta will continue to grow, which means that the instant Meta stops growing, the value of its shares will plummet, to reflect the fact that it is a "mature" company, not a "growth" company.

So Zuck needs to do everything he can to keep investors believing that Meta will continue to grow. After all, Zuck's key employees and top managers all take much (or even most!) of their compensation in Meta stock, which means that the instant the company stops growing, those workers' pay will plummet and they will seek employment elsewhere, depriving Meta of the workers it needs to successfully create or conquer a new market and once again become a growth stock.

This is why Zuck keeps telling stories. The most important story Zuck tells is about himself, the boy genius who converted a tool for nonconsensually rating the fuckability of Harvard undergrads into a social media monopoly with four billion users. Zuck's cult of personality isn't the product of mere narcissism – it's a tool for creating the material conditions for ongoing investor confidence:

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-shirt-latin-what-does-it-say-explained-words-2024-9

If Zuck is a boy genius, then Zuck's pronouncements take on the character of prophesy. When Zuck announced the "pivot to video," investors poured tens of billions into Facebook stock and into video-first online news production, despite the fact that Zuck was obviously lying:

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/facebook-online-video-pivot-metrics-false.html

The "boy genius" story is an example of Silicon Valley's storied "reality distortion field," pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn't stop people from believing Zuck when he announced "metaverse."

Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck's AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta's stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta's growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market's willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of "losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume" look positively rosy:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Now, Zuck has finally described how he's going to turn AI's terrible economics around: he's going to ask AI to design his advertisers' campaigns, and these will be so devastatingly effective that advertisers will pay a huge premium to advertise on Meta:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-revolution-is-an-advertising-revolution-morning-brief-100001467.html

This narrative is especially galling because it's literally the same story Zuck has been telling for decades: "Facebook has built a mind-control out of Big Data, and we can sell anything to anyone":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/dont-believe-the-criti-hype/#ordinary-mediocrities

This is a facially absurd proposition. After all, everyone who's ever claimed to have perfected mind-control – Rasputin, Mesmer, MK-ULTRA, neurolinguistic programming grifters and pathetic "pick up artists" – was a liar. Either they were lying to themselves, or to everyone else. Or both.

But many of tech's critics helped sell this narrative (and thus helped Meta sell ads). Many critics have fallen prey to the sin of "criti-hype," Lee Vinsel's term for critiquing the claims of your adversary without bothering to ask whether they are true:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/euthanize-rentiers/#dont-believe-the-hype

The project of convincing investors that tech's "dopamine hackers" had perfected mind-control with warmed over, non-replicable Skinnerian behavior-mod techniques and mass surveillance sold a hell of a lot of ads. After all, if there's one kind of person the advertising sector has always been able to sell to, it's advertising executives, who are the easiest of marks for a story about how easy it is to trick the public into buying whatever you're selling:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

Every ad-tech sales-bro who takes a meeting with an advertising executive finds himself pushing on an open door. Advertisers desperately wants to believe in mind-control rays. Think of the department store magnate John Wannamaker, who said, "half my advertising spending is wasted – I just don't know which half." Imagine: some advertising exec convinced John Wannamaker that he was only wasting half of his advertising spending!

I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete

The corollary here is that it doesn't matter if AI can design ads that work, not so long as an AI ad salesman can sell this proposition to an advertisers, and not so long as a tech CEO can sell it to investors.

AI keeps passing the worst kinds of Turing tests – for example, it's great at helping people who are prone to life-destroying hallucinations that they are talking to God:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

Zuck kept up his growth story with this mind control narrative for more than a decade, got caught committing a string of spectacular frauds, and then lured investors back into his stock offerings by telling the same story. This isn't just an indictment of Zuck, it's a stinging rebuke to the whole idea that markets are a kind of infallible computer for assessing and operationalizing information. The market's "thought process" demonstrably lacks the object permanence that most babies acquire by the time they are a year old. You can tell when your child has acquired object permanence by the fact that they cease to enjoy "peek-a-boo" (object permanence means they understand where you have gone when your face is hidden).

In claiming that AI will give him an infinite growth mind-control ray, Mark Zuckerberg is challenging the market to a game of peek-a-boo – and he's winning.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

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