That reminds me of the joke where a factory has a big machine break down. They call in a specialist to fix it.
The specialist looks at the machine for a moment, hits it with a small hammer and it starts working instantly.
But on being told that the repair cost is $500, the factory owner is outraged and asks how that can possibly be justified for less than a minute’s work.
“Well, it’s $5 for use of the hammer, $495 for knowing exactly where to hit the machine.”
Lots of ideas on Microsoft’s site:
Shouldn’t they get back to their job of being inside people, in pairs?
I told you to remember where you parked it.
You can use it as a webcam if you suddenly need to work from home and there’s a shortage of webcams.
Originally I had to install an app for that, but it shows up as a standard USB option on my Pixel now.
Los Angeles had hidden oil rigs.
So we would have come full circle. That actually has a retro appeal to it that it could catch on!
I never thought I’d see a keyboard that has less of a spacebar then the ZX Spectrum.
Did they try asking how to stop cheese falling off pizza?
Edit: Although since that idea came from a human, maybe I’ve failed.
I hope this fad passes soon and we return to traditional candidates such as Lord Buckethead or the Monster Raving Loony Party
Yeah, 25 seconds in to the video in the story they show Waldo!
It’s not a simple story of just taking away the phone.
I discovered she’d circumvented the screen limits and had been using social media into the wee hours of the morning.
And later, after she did take the phone away, she found her daughter had kept all old phone that was supposedly sold.
It does seem to be a pretty extreme case, but there was lots going on here.
I thought that it became MANGA when it changed from FAANG?
It explains that it means “fan failure”.
And there was a link to a video of it happening.
The only other link to an MS support page did not work.
But you’re not allowed to proceed in life until you’ve pressed any key!
Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.
FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I’ve just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.
I remember an obscure one named “grommit” that was a dancing animated character and you’d click it to change arm and leg movements.
Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?
Drain.exe would say “water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle” then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.
Sheep.exe … would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.
Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?