I am not a robot. I am a clock.

  • 107 Posts
  • 2.53K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 9th, 2023

help-circle
  • No shit Watson, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.

    My first laptop was a Toshiba 1950CT from 1994, upgraded from Windows 3.1 to 95. The screen refresh time (not to be confused with vertical refresh rate), was about a half a second.

    Move the mouse pointer, it would take about half a second before the old cursor faded out and the new position cursor appeared.

    I had my cursor trails set to either 2 or 3 on that thing, because moving the cursor at all made it otherwise totally disappear while the screen faded in and out between frames.











  • Oh, it was sometime mid last week that I had to remove about a dozen obviously (to me anyways) fake antivirus, cleaner, and PDF reader apps from her phone. They were spamming her phone left and right saying her phone was full of viruses (of course the malware itself) and saying she was out of storage space (in fact she’s only got 32% space used).

    Then of course Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, had to default the power button action to Bixby, which she don’t even use, so I had to go search through the settings to figure out how to configure the power button with the typical sane power/restart menu.

    After all that, her phone seemed to work basically perfectly, so I told her to keep me updated on how it works out in the long run, while also respecting her wishes regarding the bible apps, although I was already a bit suspicious of those too.

    Yesterday she said she’s getting almost no spam crap like that anymore. Almost? Means there’s still something going on, and I have that sneaky suspicion that the whole avalanche of malware she ended up with started from a random seemingly innocent daily notification from one of those bible reader apps.

    You know what’s the worst part about all this? Mama gets all her apps from the Google Play Store…






  • Any time I come across a red velvet ant, I’ll use my pocket knife to cut the body into its 3 main sections, then sit and wait…

    Every single time, within about 15 to 20 minutes, a whole army of other ants will come along to carry the parts away. A part of me wants to believe the other ants keep the parts as trophies LOL!





  • Good, glad I broke it right.

    No joke, this looks almost exactly how I deliberately broke my old T-Mobile Revvlry+

    The fucking thing spazzed out on me and after many years and 3 screens, the touchscreen went stupid. Again…

    So I backed up all my data and literally destroyed the phone, almost exactly like OP photo/screenshot.