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What is the most unnecessarily excessive thing you have ever done to accomplish something? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by g6d3np81@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Famous example... a man spent $44b to push his memes.

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

When I was a coop a fellow coop found a second gen ryzen CPU (top of the line for the time) loose in a box that got shook around, pretty much every pin was bent. We were going to ewaste it but the coop asked our boss if he could keep it if he fixed it. Took him months of fiddling with it with pliers, and I think he broke off and replaced a couple pins but he eventually got it to work