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Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? (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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[–] bfg9k 3 points 1 year ago

CPU mounting bracket (the bit that goes behind the CPU) snapped on my server's motherboard while I had it out for cleaning, so I just zip-tied it in and put a bit of wood behind the board to keep it firmly pressed against the CPU.

It worked fine for 2 years until I decommed the server, never had an issue with it.