source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
I do industrial programming. Everything is so far behind that yelling at the “computers” does nothing. Physical violence is just about the only thing they respect.
Percussive maintenance is surprisingly helpful a lot of the time.
Until your trackpad is acting up a bit and you become so frustrated you smack it and now it hardly ever works.
Same with flinging a laptop across the room, which ultimately became my excuse to replace a 12yo Sony laptop.
As long as you don’t let too much magic smoke escape.
If the magic smoke comes out, that’s entirely the electrician/electrical designer’s fault. Their circuits shouldn’t have let me do that.
Hey now, the NEC provides ample protection against user stupidity, and I do my damndest to take it a step further. If a user is able to do something so catastrophically stupid despite me better engineering efforts, perhaps they should read up on darwinism.
Signed, an electrician.
therapeutic at least
A blowie works a lot more often.
More flies with honey they say… but i still cant get this usb right the first try.
This often devolves into Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
It broke my previous laptop’s hard drive because it wasn’t an ssd.
That’s where the term punch card comes from
FORTRAN? More like, these hands. Put 'em up, numb nuts.
Tbh, that sounds super interesting.
I would love to have more effective means to threaten inanimate objects.
