Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? (derp.foo)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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Cursed hacks, forcing proprietary software to do what you want through clever means, or just generally doing awful, beautiful things with technology?

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[-] jeremias@social.jears.at 4 points 11 months ago

I bought myself a quartz64 model a from pine64 (my instance is hosted on there) when it came out. It has a sata port but no sata power.

Turns out SATA SSDs only use the 5v part of the sata power connector so i took a sata power cable from an old PSU and an old usb cable and soldered the 5v line of the sata connector to the usb power. Look like crap and I fully expected shit to blow up but it somehow works really well.

(No I did't have electrical tape)

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