https://twitter.com/TheBobPony/status/1773951648345239590
It's rad as hell, imagine having to set all that up while making sure none of the clips touch and short each other
could paint white out or finger nail polish or something over the areas likely to touch other clips
People who would consider paper clips in the first place do not use either.
heatshrink tubing would be easy (or just use pieces of insulated copper wire in the first place ig)
That was my first thought as well, before realizing I had just invented insulated copper wire from first principles.
I had a BIOS password locked laptop from a dissolved company, and nobody else wanted it for that reason, but the manual said to connect 2 pins to reset the BIOS and it worked.
So probably this is a lot easier on most x86 computers, it's just that 99% of the time you just didn't check.
In the past I had a computer case with a broken power button. For years I would turn it on by shorting some of the connector pins on the motherboard with a screwdriver. Worked like a charm!
I mean that's basically all the power button does anyway, we do that all the time when building PCs. Or we used to anyway, these days usually the MB has a power button too.
A man will short circuit a laptop with a handful of paperclips to bypass the BIOS password instead of go to therapy. smdh
