Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?

• Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  iirc there’s a common mod with aluminum foil tape which makes them work great with capacitive touch buttons

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How would you switch it? What’s an example of something capacitive? This hadn’t occurred to me. I do know there are supposedly capacitive styli for phones, but they don’t work very well.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Human fingers.

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    • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      subtitled screenshot of the scene in The Big Lebowski at Johnie’s Cafe Shop Restaurant where Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is saying to Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) “You want a toe? I can get you a toe.”

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That would work fine but you’d probably have to replace it every couple days.

        Can you do toe subscriptions?

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    LMBO I posted the answer to your question in this same thread at the exact same time you asked it.

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