• los0220@lemmy.world
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      That was the best prank on the primary school library computers I could think of until I discovered .bat files that could open windows endlessly and the poor windows xp eventually crashed. I also changed the icon on the shortcut to the file, so it looked like IE.

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    She’ll will move it away and replace it with some bonzi buddy virus she just downloaded, and then be complain to you why she can’t login to her bank anymore.

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      This requires more work but don’t make anyone an admin of their computer if they don’t know what they’re doing and you have to clean it up.

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        My uncle wasn’t the admin of his (Windows) computer, but he managed to install a web browser that was basically malware. The damn thing didn’t require any admin permissions to install, and it automatically ran a powershell script to reinstall itself if it was removed. I had to edit the registry to remove it. It’s crazy.

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        My mother has the sudo password. It’s fine, she doesn’t mess with the command line unless I write an email saying “open terminal and copy and past this command into it…”

        And even then I have to be on the phone with her to explain how to open the terminal. But that’s way easier than trying to explain how to navigate through a bunch of menus.

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          Agreed! It’s just way easier to explain “open that black box thingy here and then write what i sent ya”

          Than “click this, then do that, click this, then write this here press windows and R, write this, the click that…”

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    I’m certain this exact meme has been circulating the internet for several years, but with “dad” instead of “mom” in the caption. I am not crazy and I am not imagining this. I just wonder what’s the process behind this new version. Someone recently took the image and rewrote the caption to reference the other parent, but why??

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        I mean, at least Firefox or LibreFox or WaterFox…

        If they were willing to spend 30 minutes in Photoshop, did they at least install an ad blocker ffs? someone gave enough of a shit to put VLC on there at least…

        Oy gevalt

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    This needs to be made standard after a mandatory age verification check during Windows activation. Sorry boomers, you’ll be patronised by Windows even more than regular users

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    Reminds me of an episode of Harmontown where Schrab was complaining about the chairs and Dan said, “can we get Schrab like, a sarcastically comfy chair?”

    Exaggerated accommodation. Comedy gold

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    Guessing it’s a shared device. I don’t know a mother of someone old enough to use computers and post on Lenny that would give two f*cks about CPU-Z