Say what you want about #chatgpt , but it has saved by butt right now. Bought an el-cheapo USB panel light that came with a desk mount (I now have 3 of the same type of those cheap desk mount, those work rathel well IMO). The panel light had an 1/4" thread insert while the desk mount I received with it had a male 3/8" threaded pin. This means I can't screw the panel on to the provided desk mount.

Asked ChatGPT to create an adapter using OpenSCAD (pictured). One go, straight to the 3D printer, first model using PLA was FLAWLESS. This saved me the hassle of either asking for support/refund or finding an overpriced adapter on online stores.

Total cost of filament: 0,11$ CAD, 0.08$ USD.

I still get the same feeling of excitement like when I discovered the "world wide web" back then for things that magically works like this situation.

Phew, I made a handwired keyboard! I don't know soldering much, so it barely holds in a functional state 😅

I've been using the Redox keyboard for 5 years now but one I bought commercially started to be unstable for use, so I had to make one. In this economy, I don't have 250+ euros for a keyboard anymore.

Link to the Redox project: https://github.com/mattdibi/redox-keyboard

At long* last! (To add context, I was left rotting into a helpdesk role indefinitely with the previous company owner.)

*: I might even dare to say "unsigned long int*" to that, as a C programming joke. Because that was SEVERELY overdue.

A copy of a copy of a meme, I'm pretty sure. But i'll add "Reliable pre-2010 car, before the car-as-a-service craze" to the list. On the other social network I saw this on, this was polarizing. Some people view this as paranoid; others view that as common sense.

(Also, I run opnSense, but I hear good things on OpenWRT!)