• TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    1 year ago

    I had some hands-on computer repair training at a private school once. One old machine wouldn’t boot, complaining that it couldn’t find the keyboard which was plugged into it. I unplugged it while the computer was on. At the time, unplugging a keyboard while the computer was on was… not a good thing. There was a little curl of smoke, a scorch mark on the motherboard, and a sustained tone from the chassis and that computer breathed its last.

    Later, in college, I used the “net send” command on random people in open labs just to watch how confused they got.

    • Barbacamanitu@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 year ago

      I got suspended once for using net send in the library. The message I sent was “hey”. It went to every computer in the school.