A couple of times I'll see a friend doing something toilsome, and set them up with a script or tool to make it easier. A trivial example is Instagram limits the number of hashtags to 30, but has a poor UX if you exceed that number. A quick bash command later and the tags are being enumerated to make it easier to see how many tags there are.
Another one is a friend is a huge fan of smart IoT devices, some of them on Siri, some of them on Alexa. He had to remember which voice assistant reach device was on, which got confusing with all the different devices (mostly lights), so I setup a home assistant bridge for him, so everything is now accessible via Siri.
Yet another one, a friend had their laptop hooked up to a projector which was cumbersome because their laptop was tethered to the project all the time and they couldn't move around with it. So I gave them a Pi (pre-shortage) and taught them some software so they usually have that hooked up now instead.
Years ago, more on the IT side, but I'd clear out crapware laden Windows laptops of accumulated spyware. They'd be able to put off buying a new laptop for a while longer, saving them money they may not have had.
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A couple of times I'll see a friend doing something toilsome, and set them up with a script or tool to make it easier. A trivial example is Instagram limits the number of hashtags to 30, but has a poor UX if you exceed that number. A quick bash command later and the tags are being enumerated to make it easier to see how many tags there are.
Another one is a friend is a huge fan of smart IoT devices, some of them on Siri, some of them on Alexa. He had to remember which voice assistant reach device was on, which got confusing with all the different devices (mostly lights), so I setup a home assistant bridge for him, so everything is now accessible via Siri.
Yet another one, a friend had their laptop hooked up to a projector which was cumbersome because their laptop was tethered to the project all the time and they couldn't move around with it. So I gave them a Pi (pre-shortage) and taught them some software so they usually have that hooked up now instead.
Years ago, more on the IT side, but I'd clear out crapware laden Windows laptops of accumulated spyware. They'd be able to put off buying a new laptop for a while longer, saving them money they may not have had.
haha, how do you add more than 30 tags to an instagram post