What's your favorite low-tech solution to a high-tech problem?

1. When Windows gave an error message that kept coming back when I pressed OK, I attached a second monitor, dragged the error message to that monitor and then turned it off.
   — higgs8


2. Calling someone else to come in and look at your screen usually fixes whatever the issue was automatically.
   — llamacolypse


3. red ring of death on your 360? place it on a hard surface like a floor bottom down, and punch it with your fist like you are frustrated in an office meeting. it actually worked for me once and gave me 3 more months with it.
   — bastugubbar






4. When the lasers on the original Playstation fucked up all you had to do was insert the disc, close the lid then turn the console upsidedown so the laser moved closer to the CD, worked a charm.
   — DarkangelUK


5. Rebrand the problem as something positive using creative marketing techniques.
   — MikeWillHugYou


6. 2 computers with a pencil taped on the outside of the cd-rom drives, strategically positioned so they can power each other on/off when remote tools fail by ejecting the cd-rom drive
   — sinerin






7. [Duct tape occlusion therapy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape_occlusion_therapy). It *sounds* like bullshit -- sure, just put a piece of duct tape on a verruca or a wart and the whole thing will just disappear in a few weeks -- but when the other options are cryosurgery or actual surgery, in severe cases, it's worth a try. I've used it twice, once on a verruca I had for ten years on my foot and once with a wart on my knuckle, and both times it cleared it right up. I wish the studies we had on its efficacy were a little better -- both [the one that said it worked](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/203979) and [the one that said it didn't work better than placebo](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/205757) -- were both really pretty flawed, methodologically speaking, but it's one of those 'What have you got to lose?' style situations.
   — Portarossa


8. Percussive maintenance.
   — DataRapist


9. A lego man holding up a $1000,- GPU to prevent sag! EDIT: Ohh lots of positive feedback! Here you go, the behemoth held up by this brave guy, I thank him every day: https://i.imgur.com/X0zms9b.jpg
   — AluminiumHoedje






10. Back in the days of Morrowind, to level my sneak and agility (I think?), I made my character face a dark corner near a city guard, toggled stealth, and placed a weighted pog smasher on the up arrow key with a book on top of that. i then shut off the monitor and went to sleep. Woke up with 100 in both skills. This was, of course, before I learned about console commands...
    — Lamprophonia