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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.

https://lamag.com/lahistory/hidden-oil-wells

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.

When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.

You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.

It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.

But this was an age when a PC would say “Keyboard error. Press any key to continue”, so things were not thought out that well.

That probably wasn’t a virus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2bs41z/til_that_if_your_bios_was_made_by_awardunicore/

Mod: We need you to press the caps lock key again.

User1: OKAY I DID! JUST TO BE SURE, I PRESSED IT TWICE.

Superbowl reminds me of the SDF Fox News

~~https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/foxnews~~

Ifoxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

(Edited to make the bot happy!)

What’s needed is an online 2fa service that just takes a username and copies the code to the clipboard.

/s before I get any replies.

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Has he seen “The Lion King”?

The distinction that I’m concerned about is that this isn’t a charge from the repair company, it’s a fee decided by the rental company. Unrelated to the cost of the repair.

It wasn’t an invented example, the figures I gave are what they tell me they will bill me for any repair that’s needed.

So thank you for clarifying, but I don’t think that I’m musunderstanding what an excess is. I’m just wondering if the excess protection would still cover these arbitrary charges from the _rental company.

I know that it is to cover the excess of damage costs.

I’m asking if they would only pay “reasonable” repair costs if the rental company charges me 1 or 2 thousand for just a large scratch, for instance, which is what Enterprise tell me that they do. (It’s usually £1000 but was £2000 when I had a larger vehicle).