Ingenious Tech Support Fixes: Creative Solutions and Hacks

Ingenious tech support fixes showcase creativity and resourcefulness in solving tech challenges.

### Ingenious Tech Support Fixes: From MacGyver Moments to Hilarious Hacks
* 💡 "We thought we'd change gears and take a look at some of your most **ingenious tech support fixes**, showcasing **creativity and innovation** in tech repairs."
* 🔧 One standout fix involved **soldering to a SIM card**, demonstrating an **unexpected yet clever approach** to a device issue.
* 💻 Another impressive creation was a Linux PC built inside an IBM keyboard, exemplifying **extreme resourcefulness** and a **unique design**.
* ⚡ The video also highlighted practical solutions, like using a **Toc adapter from AliExpress** to repair a device, showing that **effort can lead to satisfying results**.
* 📱 The Ugreen Uno 100 W charger was introduced, capable of charging an iPhone 15 Pro from **0 to 60% in just 30 minutes**, merging tech support with product promotion.
* 🎨 Various DIY tech projects were featured, including a PC mod that cleverly used a **GPU and zip ties for support**, emphasizing the **fun and creative side of tech modifications**.
* 🛠 Some fixes were more humorous than practical, such as using **carrots as makeshift connectors**, proving that sometimes the journey to a solution can be **just as entertaining as the fix itself**.
* 📝 The video concluded by inviting viewers to **share their own tech fixes**, reinforcing the **community aspect of problem-solving** in the tech world.

Recently, we looked at some of your worst tech support nightmares. How do you even do what to heal the trauma? We thought we'd change gears and take a look at some of your most ingenious tech support fixes, like this one. Oh my God, that's a SIM card. That's sick, dude. So, the PCB for whatever device this is, Oh, it didn't come with the little bracket for it. Yeah, buddy, I love this. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen somebody solder to a SIM card. That's very clever. I built a Linux PC inside an IBM keyboard. The least practical battery-powered laptop. I flipping love it. At least it probably like thonks, dude. Look at these arrow keys. Wow, this is sick as hell. It's added USB to it. That's probably where the computer lives. The double function Row, god, that's amazing. A wrist-breaking typing angle. Oh my goodness, look at this display. The keyboard to screen ratio here, it's like 5 to 1 or something. And you can tell just looking at this thing.

that this is absolutely the kind of person to use a trackball mouse. This is cool as heck, cool as heck, not tech support MacGyver. It's a mods should have deleted this. A MacGyver solution is defined as fixing something by using parts that are not the intended replacement parts or using... yeah, I wouldn't say this MacGyver. This is just neat. This is just amazing. How about this one? Yeah, all right. I can get behind that. This is great. It's a lot of effort. You just screw the back play off, desolder the cable, add a Toc adapter from AliExpress. That is so cool. Oh yeah, that's mint. I mean, okay, well, I mean, it's not mint, but it functions, and there's going to be so much more. Really look at how we patched together this segue to our sponsor. Get it patched? You green juice up your phone quickly with the new Uno 100 W charger. According to you green, it powers up an iPhone 15 Pro from 0 to 60% in just 30.

minutes plus it even smiles at you. How cute is that? Check out the ug green Uno series at the link in the video description. You ready for some more uh r/ tech mcgyver? Oh my God, no, no. This took me a second. This is like plastic bag plus. There wouldn't even be watertight, like it's just easy access. The tech painted it to match the house. That's like pretty good. Did nobody stop and ask questions? Is that eggshell or uh hard to tell? I don't actually care. Hard to tell the finish. It just seems like a waste of a perfectly good cooler. Yeah, oh my God, a hot rod. Let's go. Yeah, I'm into, I'm into that. I love this too. This is how you get to like PC modding. I'm sure this, this is a video we've done this video before. If you need to put a GPU in one of these systems, there is no reason why that PCIe slot can't take a taller GPU. You might just want to put a little bit of

electrical tape based on how it's not super mounted, and that's pretty close. Yeah, that could short the back of the card. That's a good tech tip. It might just fall out. Put a zip tie around the bracket, maybe, dude. Yeah, bumping this computer 'cause it's not like it's screwed into anything. No, at this point, I feel like you should just leave the side panel off. They did put the side panel back on with the zip tie. My god, with zip ties. Oh, this one's super vintage, 10 years ago. Yeah, is that super smart? Super smart. What is this? Hell yeah. Is that a Dremel disc? Is that a cutting disc? It's velcro, baby. Clever to use the washer on it too. This glue offici on auto here, washer. This is just Peak. That might be aoxy. I think that's epoxy. This isxy. That's a permanent fixer. You know Apple would be proud. I think they should come with this standard. Yeah, mag sa your heart out. The school uses two Chromebooks as clocks.

literally though, 100%. And supported this message. I am so into this. This is great. Reduce, reuse. Those are the two most important Rs. The IT guy at this school has uh, he's been there a while. Chad energy. The message attached to it is also great. I think if they were just in the ceiling without that message, then I'd be like, what the hell? But props on them. They said they needed 10 computers in the middle of nowhere, and they wanted an attractive drop on no budget. Yes, there's a lot of school IT guys. Shower rod? What shower rod? I'm taking notes for the lab. Oh, the drop? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You see the little joint in the middle? Dude, dude, that's actually great. You know how expensive the actual ones are? Oh, I know. So my brother, like, they bought an office building for his work, and they had like Herman Miller, the previous tenant, Herman Miller drop things that are like two grand each. 10 bucks? Yeah. And look at this desk. Look at this cable management. Yeah, it's pretty nice. That is a slick

setup. I love it. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, please, sir. Oh no, what is this? Copying as much as I can. This window, not, no, that's not how you do that. Oh my god, he has to kickstart it. That is not very good. Is anyone going to tell him? No, no, with these older drives. This is a 20-year-old drive. Yeah, that'll work. Dust is still a thing, but I guess if you're just trying to recover it. If you're trying to get as much. You can see he's copying, but he's copying honest. Normally, I just put mine in the freezer. Hard drives are far more. They're black magic, mind-boggling than an SS. But as someone who has had data that's in limbo, I would do anything. I would try anything except that. That would not be on my list of things. Flash drive has got too hot, so I installed a monster heat sink. I like how they have the thermal pad. Thermal pad. See, this won't work 'cause that is not the hot part of your USB key. What if

it's metal. It still would be so far away. The chip is going to be all the way over here. You're probably saturating the heat of the outside case of that USB flash drive. It can get too hot though, especially if the USB port is sitting by the exhaust or if your laptop has thermal issues. This is possible, and you're writing to it at the same time. Those things can combine to create a bad situation, slow it down. Yeah, the monster makes it faster for sure. Fixing my own network, I used a free ISP hotspot across the street with my coffee can antenna. Wow, that's an oldie. This is the cutest little can. See, that's what I did. Windows 98. Hold on, what the hell? Why Windows 98? That's an oldie but a goodie. What is going on? Oh, it's a background. We've been bamboozled. Jake 10. Yeah, is it not? We were bamboozled. I actually love this theme. Yeah, yeah dude. How have we never made a video on cantas? We need to.

do it. Did we? That's cool. Yeah, I didn't do this for a long time because my neighbor had an unsecured wireless network, but I didn't do it. I don't believe you did it. You did it just to see if you could. You could also use the can as a microphone and then speaker, talk to my neighbor, pointed at his bedroom. User said I was the second person to take a picture of it this week. That is, that's hilarious. Hilarious. I don't understand why they need the wood though. Look, it holds it up at the bottom, but isn't that what the vase amounts for? It didn't have a vase amount, man. I, oh my God, I figured it out. I like the fact that it's just rubber bands. The rubber bands complete the look. I would worry that the rubber bands would be blocking part of the screen. This is some my dad would do. He'd be like this monitor, well, we'll figure it out, goes in the garage, gets a hacksaw, just yeah, yeah, you know what, no, they even did a pretty

good job of the cut out here, man. Look at this. I mean, okay, you know they went to the ceiling tile School of using a jigsaw. I love it, but they took the time. Look, they took the time to take the front lip off, cut it, and then put it back together. No damage here other than the emotional damage. My Raspberry Pi heat sink, it's just a screw. Proba has more of a thermal mass than a lot of other stuff. I don't understand why, like, what is going on cooling. Yeah, but like, it's a heat sink. Yeah, they got the compound in there. It's not even thermal adhesive, so you just like walk by that thing a little too aggressively and just shorts the Sho out of everything. Well, don't do that. I occasionally have to deal with IR sensors that are not easily accessible due to your fixtures. I extended the IR diode and created the slim Gem of remote controls. You just like stick it behind something and then do it. Yeah, that's lovely cool this how this is how they.

turn the stomachs of the Teletubbies on. I thought it was more like a prostate exam. Can you imagine you go to the clinic and the doctor pulls out a Samsung TV remote and like a long wire and he's like, All right, oh no, I said it to Spanish. Oh, that's uh, I don't know if this is the tech support. This is another. I made something janky. It's going to scratch your iPad though. If you have to interact with this, it's going to be sh. But if you're just watching a movie and you don't move, you're like not ADHD. You don't have to like adjust yourself all the time. This could be reasonable. This is a great novelty item. You should just sell these on AliExpress for 35 cents. I would buy one. Wanted to break out the old Wii but couldn't find the sensor, so I ignored Google. Apparently candles. Yeah, this is classic. Yeah, what 100% this is a thing. All you need is an IR emitter. There's

It's not a data cable connected to it; it's just power. That's awesome. This 100% works. The sensor bar is a misnomer. There is no sensor in it. Did they call it a sensor bar? I believe so. How to connect? Can place the sensor bar. Those bastards, they lied to us. They did door exit switch press Mouse buttons to Open Door. Why? I hope it's actually clicking a button on screen to have a program open. That would be very clever. See, I'm starting to feel like some of these are actually McGyver. This is great. Like, you had to do something, and so you made it work, and it works, so you left it there. Most buttons you have to press both; they like wired them in series. You have to press IQ test. I'm sure they had a good reason to do it that I cannot see. I sure hope so. Oh my God, what the heck? My friend's broke an SD card. Someone shoved it too hard, broken circuit line at the bottom right. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go.

only just barely, yeah, that's... oh, that's happened to me before. So, they took an adapter card. I don't know if you've ever popped open an SD card, but they're pretty empty. What a boss. Great job. Look at this, the little angel hair. So, he did fix it. Oh, I guess because there were no contacts anymore. Oh, and then he just reconnected the contact. Great job. 300 vacation photos solved. That's pretty dope. Respect for knowing how to do that. Articulated monitor arms are way too expensive in my country, so I built one. You just built something out of wood badly. Is that tech support? No, that looks like Dam. I like how a nice 6in gap from the wall now. It's adjustable. Now, I don't want to dunk on because they're saying like it was too expensive for me in my country. You have like the $100 Xbox controller. I don't know, man. I don't want to judge, but that seems like a lot of work for what was

accomplished Best Buy requires a laptop to boot an OS to do a trade-in. Oh yeah, that's oh my God, that is genius. So you stashed it internally so you could boot this laptop to get a trade-in. So there's a USB-A port here, so they just grabbed the contacts, threw them onto here so that they could close the shell. No, I got you, yeah, I'm picking up what you're putting down. I love it 'cause Windows doesn't like to be installed on an external drive. I wonder, didn't say Windows, just say it has to boot. So this is probably just some Linux live image that is very, very difficult to pull off. I mean, to be fair, that's what Apple does. What do you mean? All their hard drives are soldered to the computer. Yeah [Laughter]. This is pretty good. That's what I do when I work from home. It's funny 'cause 7 years ago, nobody knew about Mouse jigglers. I bet you just do your job. This is so smart. So you got a binder clip, a

twist tie. No, it's a zip tie, and then a painting stir stick and tape. Genius. I'm glad that it worked. Wife wanted a Fitbit. Do you think she'll like it? Yeah, with a little OLED display. It's got... I like how that's really never going to break off. Wife wanted a fit. This costs more than a pedometer. You used to get pedometers in cereal boxes. That's true, but she wanted a Fitbit. So if you's got a Bluetooth adapter on there. No, no, that's just like... That's not a... This is not a fit. If you start sweating, this catches on fire. Oh yeah, that's real Jank. Oh yeah, okay, this is good data recovery. I like it. Extreme respect, 'cause that is the board from a USB key. And then if you can see, the USB at the end of it has broken off of the board. I'm amazed. I'm amazed that like the traces were still intact. No, no, no. Like he's... It broke off, and then he's put it in a USB extension, and then he's

gone onto the pads where the like connector would go. Oh, I've definitely broken a USB stick in a manner where like you had to like push it up to get it to work. Hard drives too, 100%. If you ever accidentally snapped it off, sometimes you could just put it back in there, reinforce with hot glue, and then never look at it again. My building's PA microphone was broken. These were the only supplies I could scavenge at the front desk. So you close it, the close it to talk, and then open it again. Otherwise, you just twist them together and like put Band-Aids on them. Attention students, due to recent budget cuts, we used our last Band-Aid. Is that extra tips of the bandid, or is that the last of the tape that they had in their building? I think that I don't know. Those look like really, really cheap Band-Aids. This is definitely the kind of Band-Aids that like your strata would buy, you know, when you let your dad fix your car. Oh my god, oh no, here we go.

ungrounded extension cord. This is like bloof car. That is ridiculous. That's so good though. That is amazing. Wait, what do you flip it to go back down? No way, no way. This probably required so much effort. That looks like a real solution, not a great one. I mean, if it works, right? But I think that's real. I built myself secret Bluetooth headphones in my earmuffs so I can listen to podcasts at work. Sure, I guess it's like a Bluetooth board with a switch and a battery. You know, you can just buy these, right? I love it. They might not be regulation at their work. There's probably a reason why they don't want you listening to other stuff at your job. Yeah, that's kind of extremely un-OIA to actually have music playing because you can't hear people yelling or screaming at you. This is the kind of guy who's going to drive a forklift into somebody and just drag them half a kilometer. Couldn't find a big enough flash drive, so oh dude, that's great. I

installed Windows from my old Android phone one time. Love it because you could partition them like it was rooted, and I just made a partition, plugged it in, installed Windows off. I love it. That is very clever. I have done horrible things before because I didn't have a flash drive. Uh, when you don't have a flash drive, man, you make do. Yeah, you find something. This fan is keeping the output matrices cool. If it is moved, all of the UK TV networks will fall off air. Asterisk. Damn. Oh my God. It's on a stool of some kind with. There's a strap. There's a strap with a box and then duct tape. What this piece of paper doing here? That's instructions. Don't worry about it. Don't ask questions. Get to word. Youb change the color. My macard dude. It is cool. I flipping love this keyboard. Probably types like now. I don't care. That is so cool. It's not really RGB. It's just colors technically. It can switch colors. You just have to switch slide. It just takes a long time. You have to just take

the keyboard off like the back CIA that can play Doom. It's like one frame every 8 hours. There you go, RGB. Think different, analog maybe. You think less. I slept through all my phone alarms today. A TENS unit. What's that? Can basically it zaps them. Is this really tech support as much as it is like body support. Might make me get to work on time. I don't know. Luke used to be late for work all the time. We literally did a video on wake-up Tech so that we could give Luke whichever one was the best at the end for people who are hard of here. There are actually types of alarms. They like vibrate, electri themselves. Yeah, they use vibrations for mates LTD store.com electrocution alarm. My friend didn't know what cable he needed, so this is what he took to the store. It's a carbon copy baby. That's me. That's great. That's so smart actually genius to just do an impression instead of drawing. Oh, I wish I was that smart cuz they're like I need a VGA cable but

It's actually a DB25 or something. Yeah, that's very clever. Also, like, just take a picture of it. Yeah, how did they take this photo? I don't know. I didn't have the necessary female adapters. Are those carrots? Are those carrots? I have definitely attached RCA's male to male with stuff before, but not carrots. Why did they use audio file grade carrots? 'Cause they're conductive. That carrot looks like it's been through some. Why is it crusty? This man's got the driest carrots ever. Yeah, I mean, if sure, they're juicy on the inside like all of us. Used this setup for a week or two until I had the chance to grab the. Had to replace the carrots once. Excuse me, my carrots are old. They've gone moldy. That is such a stupid way to do that. Poor, just like this poor segue to our sponsor Manscaped. They just dropped their new Chairman Pro package, and it is packed with everything you need for a killer shave. You're getting the Chairman Pro Electric foil shaver.

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stupid, and it works. It's not stupid a little too literally. Something can work and be stupid. Let us know in the comments which was your favorite, and reply to our YouTube Community post if you've got something better than what we looked at here today.

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Tech support nightmares were overshadowed by some clever fixes, like soldering to a SIM card and building a Linux PC inside an IBM keyboard.

The use of unconventional parts and creative solutions, such as a Toc adapter and zip ties, showcased impressive DIY tech skills.

The video also highlighted unique ideas, like using Chromebooks as clocks and a vintage velcro and washer setup for a permanent fix.

The school's IT guy has implemented a budget-friendly and attractive setup for computers using unconventional methods.

The speaker shares their own experiences with data recovery and network fixing, using creative tools like a coffee can antenna.

The unique use of rubber bands and unconventional materials for desk setup and monitor placement adds a personal touch to the IT solutions.

The speaker highlights various unconventional tech fixes, such as a jigsaw-cut ceiling tile and a makeshift IR remote control.

They discuss the surprising use of candles for a Wii sensor and the clever reparation of a broken SD card.

The speaker also shares their experience of building a wooden monitor arm as a cost-effective solution.

A laptop's internal USB-A port was cleverly used to boot an OS for a trade-in.

Innovative hacks, like using a binder clip and zip tie for a mouse jiggler, showcase resourcefulness.

A broken USB key's board was repurposed for data recovery, while a makeshift PA microphone repair used scavenged supplies and Band-Aids.

A person has created secret Bluetooth headphones in their earmuffs for discreet podcast listening at work.

Another individual installed Windows from an old Android phone due to not having a flash drive.

A fan's unique setup is crucial for keeping UK TV networks on air, while a clever impression of a cable helps someone communicate their needs at the store.

Creative Use of Carrots and a Shaving Sponsor

The speaker discusses a clever use of carrots as female adapters for a DB25 connection, humorously commenting on their crusty appearance.

They mention using this setup for a couple of weeks and having to replace the carrots due to mold.

The conversation then shifts to a sponsor, Manscaped, promoting their new Chairman Pro package for a killer shave, offering a discount and free shipping.