What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 1031 points –

I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn't work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.

Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!

It went from stupid purchase to something I'd gladly replace if it broke.

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Ajazz 308i keyboard.

I'm quite satisfied with it, even though it was meant to serve as a toy...

It looks like its made of tums

It surely does.

But it's surprisingly enjoyable to use with CEMU and Zelda:BotW

What do you do for motion control? Tried this but was at an absolute loss as to how to shoot arrows, aim sheika slate runes effectively before I just broke down and bought a pro-controller

There's no situation in BoTW where high precision is needed. Keyboard provides enough of it.

And, after you destroy the "ninja" clan, there's an abundance of bows that shoot 2 arrows. Then, when you deal with flying divine Beast, you acquire triple arrow shooting bow that you can fix everytime it breaks.

Interesting, I bought one once and didn't like it. Much rather use a real mechanical keyboard, and they make plenty that are compact.

Even a run of the mill gamerboard with no-name switches is better than pretty much any membrane board, but particularly one that's competing on looks. You can even grab a set of of circular keycaps for $15 or less if you must have the typewriter look.