What about the pin to unlock your phone? And at least here there’s no pin with tap.

And who bring a Playboy mag to their university’s computer lab, and advertises their possession?

Probably a random grad student. They were just coming out of the “sexual revolution” of the 60s at that point. It’d be a lot weirder ten years earlier or ten years later.

That a similar thing did happen ten years earlier is the weird part, I think.

Mine will too, when it’s reasonably warm out, but not below -15 or so. Below -30 it’s even longer, and might not keep it clear, and I need to open windows just so moisture goes somewhere other than the windshield.,

If it’s cold outside it usualky takes at least 10 minutes to be warm enough to keep the windshield clear, so not all of it will be walking.

Sounds like another plus for 5ghz to me.

The only right way to slam down the phone requires an old phone with actual bells for the ringer. You know you did it right then the bells ding at you.

Damn right! It’s somebody else’s greed! Totally different.

Hoist up the thing! Batten down the whatsit!

What’s that thing spinning? Somebody should stop it!

Turn hard to port! (That’s not port) Now I’ve got it!

Trust me, I’m in control!

At my school there was an office phone outside the office that anyone could use. No need to staff it.

Yup, I’m one of about 6 people who work in my office that used to have around 100 in 2020. They all still work here, just from home. Great for me, especially with the reduced headcount. But many of my coworkers also like WFH, and I’d be first in line to threaten to leave if there was a return to office mandate.

Yep, one of those. Great for general typing. Lacks NKRO, so less great for hardcore gaming, but still feels great to type on.

Not without a bunch of lawyers winning.

Fax, like POTS has a legitimate purpose. It’s a lot easier to intercept and/or edit an email in transit than a fax.

OS/2 was great in its time. I’d very much like to see it open sourced, even though IBM has repeatedly refused.

Slackware went from version 4 to 7 for a similar reason. But IIRC its reason was RedHat.

Thanks for not just assuming I keep my house below freezing!

Where’d my kid get a Guy Fawkes mask?

Seriously, though, who cranks the thermostat to 30 and walks out the door?

It means the process respinsible for unlocking the screen has crashed. I’ve seen it happen to me a lot too under some circumstances, but my error message is in English.

It’s telling you to switch to a console and manually unlock the session.