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Kerbtree posted:You think these people can touch-type? They’re hunt-and-peck, tongue firmly clenched between their teeth. You know swapping the key caps doesn't swap the letters they make when you press them, right? The prank only works if the recipient doesn't touch type.
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I am not capable of touch typing despite using computers since like 1991
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Jun 23, 2023 13:15
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Touch typing is not a standard skill for someone who's younger than 35 or so any more
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Jun 23, 2023 13:18
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Kerbtree posted:You think these people can touch-type? They’re hunt-and-peck, tongue firmly clenched between their teeth. No, because if they could rouch-type my "joke" wouldn't work at all, as they'd just keep typing normally no matter what keys were where?
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Jun 23, 2023 13:22
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Sentient Data posted:Touch typing is not a standard skill for someone who's younger than 35 or so any more It’s still very desirable. I’ve gotten a fair few good opportunities at world based off being able to touch type at speed. Taking meeting minutes parlaying into greater responsibilities etc.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:34
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Touch typing as opposed to telekinetic typing, or what 
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Jun 23, 2023 13:38
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Touch screen vs a mechanical keyboard, old man.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:43
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Zesty posted:Touch screen vs a mechanical keyboard, old man. Stenosaurus
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Biplane posted:Touch typing as opposed to telekinetic typing, or what I am so old.
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Sentient Data posted:Touch typing is not a standard skill for someone who's younger than 35 or so any more It's not like anyone taught me. I just spent years playing games where success depended on how quickly I could type "don't touch those, they explode." I get not knowing the full hands-on-home keys traditional way to do it, but I shake my head at two finger typers.
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Jun 23, 2023 15:23
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=teIbh8hFQos
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Jun 23, 2023 15:29
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I get not being the fastest typist, but I do have to wonder what the people who have to use a computer for work are doing if they haven't picked up how to type after a decade or two.
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Jun 23, 2023 15:29
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Explaining jokes makes them funnier
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Jun 23, 2023 15:31
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LawfulWaffle posted:One of the managers in the IT department used to known for giving people “the Hoff” if you left your PC unlocked (within his department, and without making a secret of it or rotating any displays, so it was “fine”). I wonder if he’s a goon or if there’s a more likely common ancestor to the joke. For me it started at a job back around 2006 or so. I was in the global security group for a $LARGE_INT'L_BANK. And that was the typical "punishment" for walking away without locking your desktop/laptop. I brought it with me to next (and still current) job. A co-worker friend, who is also a goon, ran with it and basically became the Grand High Hoff-icutioner. People became EXTREMELY diligent about locking their systems only a few months after he decided take on that mighty responsibility. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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Antigravitas posted:I get not being the fastest typist, but I do have to wonder what the people who have to use a computer for work are doing if they haven't picked up how to type after a decade or two. Typing very slowly and inefficiently. It drives me nuts, I see it all the time. People who spend all day writing documents and sending emails who are maybe - MAYBE - hitting 20 WMP with their two finger hunt and pecking.
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LawfulWaffle posted:
Btw., sysadmin here. This is kind of common, because it's a neat trick to get people to lock their PCs. The choice of background varies, but it's always something mildly embarrassing. It works really well. You can make a game out of it (everyone who sees an unlocked PC gets to change the background according to some theme) and it becomes self-enforcing, doesn't have to involve srs business higher ups, and for the people who leave their PCs unlocked it's kind of embarrassing, but not seriously so. It's honestly a neat trick. Just make sure you pick a good theme before you introduce it into an org. Pick a theme so someone with a questionable sense of humour doesn't get stupid ideas, that's how changing backgrounds could stop being harmless.
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Jun 23, 2023 15:55
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Antigravitas posted:Btw., sysadmin here. Weird, me too. What are the chances?’
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Jun 23, 2023 16:11
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I don't know how to type, because my fingers land naturally on A, W, and D. Home row? I don't know her
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Jun 23, 2023 16:11
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Philippe posted:I don't know how to type, because my fingers land naturally on A, W, and D. Home row? I don't know her It sounds like you’re bragging about driving a vehicle with all wheel drive over using a computer
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Jun 23, 2023 16:14
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 A dude I used to work with and I did these desktop pranks fot years. Really bored at the job. He really got me one time, he was away from his computer and I had some random sticker in hand so I just stuck it on his screen in passing. He took it off, waited a couple of days, and then traced the sticker shape on his desktop backround and hosed with the area in Photoshop fully convincing me I permanently damaged his expensive print-calibrated monitor.
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Jun 23, 2023 16:17
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LawfulWaffle posted:Real early in my career with my current employer when I was in the call center, a coworker left their computer unlocked when they left for the day. I changed their background to an upside-down picture of Shaq, then rotated the display in Windows 180 degrees. So the monitor hadn’t moved, Shaq was upright, but the taskbar and icons were all flipped and the mouse was reversed. I used to rotate people's screen if they left it unlocked, I think it was Intel's graphic drivers that had a shortcut so you could do it in one quick key stroke. Sadly that doesn't work any more on current versions.
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Jun 23, 2023 16:28
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Soul Dentist posted:The only problem is the engineer got fired for doing this I swapped the legit video link with yet another image.
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Antigravitas posted:Btw., sysadmin here. Reminds me of one of my early jobs out of school. Very small, family owned business. I was allowed to put up a custom desktop, and not being any major poo poo stirrer, I decided on something that was fun but safe. Or so I thought. One day I get pulled in to HR because someone thought the image was "offensive" or "obscene". Keep in mind that this is a company of about 20 people, most of them over 50, and most of those related to the CEO. I was asked to change it to something else, so I just went with a solid color. What was the offending image?  mobby_6kl posted:I used to rotate people's screen if they left it unlocked, I think it was Intel's graphic drivers that had a shortcut so you could do it in one quick key stroke. Sadly that doesn't work any more on current versions. I think it was something like Windows Key + Shift + Arrow Key. Fun times.
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Today PYF has taught me that the key sequence to making friends in a new workplace is: 1.) Take screenshot of someone's desktop. 2.) Hoff their background image and take another screenshot of their desktop. 3.) Print the hoff-shot 3.) Set the hoff-shot as their background image and hide all the folders 4.) Open the non-hoff shot in an image viewer and set to fullscreen (between one and five instances) 5.) Tape the mouse USB. 6.) Hoff the underside of the mouse 7.) Take the printed hoff-shot and tape it shoddily over their monitor so they know they've called upon the wrath of the hods and it has been granted Optional: 8.) Prepare to undo the first half of these yourself, while someone packs your stuff Duuk has a new favorite as of 18:41 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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At my previous job, the prank was to send something to the company-wide slack channel, like: "I'm going to treat the office with coffee/donuts. Let me know what you'd like" It created two main effects: 1. publicly shaming the person with unlocked computer 2. more creative/inconspicuous messages would get some traction before being figured out, thus doubling the shaming damage Ghod, I hated that place.
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I had admin privileges on the corporate PCs as a teenager, and the older IT folks loved to play pranks on each other. The stuff I did back to them: Create a PowerPoint slide that autolaunches into Presentation mode that just consists of:  I think I either put it in the Startup folder or told autoexec.bat to look for it. As soon as you boot you get a blue screen, but if you click you got out of it. I replaced every single default windows .wav file with some dumb sound file. I don’t remember what I used, but it was a spoken line from Office Space or South Park or something relevant at the time. This one had a super long payoff because the person didn’t have speakers at their desk. For a year nothing happened, then they remoted into their work PC from their house. The voice clips started playing constantly and scared the poo poo out of the victim. I replaced the Microsoft Outlook autocorrect dictionary with a custom one that included very stupid autocorrects like “Hello,” -> “Ahoy” and the victims names misspelled. Typing an email would cause Outlook to turn it into misspelled trash.
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Sentient Data posted:Touch typing is not a standard skill for someone who's younger than 35 or so any more So for people who can touch type, you switch their keyboard settings to Dvorak (better yet, the French AZERTY layout since all the right keys will still be set for letters) and watch as they have a panic attack thinking they’re having a stroke
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Jun 23, 2023 19:03
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I can touch type pretty fast if I'm not thinking about it but the second I realize I'm not looking at my hands I freeze up have to look at them typing at like half speed
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space uncle posted:I had admin privileges on the corporate PCs as a teenager, and the older IT folks loved to play pranks on each other. Fixed. Next time, right-click on the image and choose Copy Image Address.
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root beer posted:So for people who can touch type, you switch their keyboard settings to Dvorak (better yet, the French AZERTY layout since all the right keys will still be set for letters) and watch as they have a panic attack thinking they’re having a stroke This is not a funny picture, but I've spent a good amount of time using an azerty keyboard and would recognize it. After about 5 minutes or so I'd be good to go once I remembered where the comma and period are.
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used to Hoff people using that gif of him in the speedo that zoomed in forevorially into his dick 2005 maybe?
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I hadn't realised the Hoff poo poo was so ubiquitous back in the day. Good office pranks in our place included stealing the ball out of someone's mouse and leaving a note with puzzle clues in its place, locking someone's desktop phone in their filing cabinet, hiding the keys and making many phonecalls. Two guys got into longrunning game of hiding each others mobile phones. The hidden phone had to be fairly close to the persons desk, but that was the only rule. The one location I remember took the owner hours to work out - the phone was hidden in the ceiling. It was one of those foam tiles ceilings that every office uses, so he just had to dislodge one, hide the phone and push the tile back in place. The foam tile made the ringtone really diffuse, so you could tell the phone was close, but not where it was. That was a really fun office, me, my manager, the IT manager and another colleague used to play mortal kombat at lunch every day in the boardroom using the big projector.
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Pookah posted:It was one of those foam tiles ceilings that every office uses, so he just had to dislodge one, hide the phone and push the tile back in place. We call those 'drop tiles' or 'drop ceilings' because you just drop the tiles into the metal grid that carries them. The area between the structural ceiling and the drop ceiling is typically referred to as 'plenum space' as it can be used for temperate/filtered air dispersal.
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Grassy Knowles posted:We call those 'drop tiles' or 'drop ceilings' because you just drop the tiles into the metal grid that carries them. The area between the structural ceiling and the drop ceiling is typically referred to as 'plenum space' as it can be used for temperate/filtered air dispersal. Thank you! I love how these forums always have someone on hand who just knows the correct terminology for anything, no matter how poorly it is described 
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Sentient Data posted:Touch typing is not a standard skill for someone who's younger than 35 or so any more I love it when my students challenge me to a typing game Get rekt fuckos
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Get car cucked, crypto losers
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Addressing that particular target audience in that way is an unbelievably satisfying schadenfreude own. I assume this is an ad on the inside of a subway station or train?
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Antigravitas posted:I get not being the fastest typist, but I do have to wonder what the people who have to use a computer for work are doing if they haven't picked up how to type after a decade or two. My one lasting regret was not taking that typing class in high school. I wound up majoring in journalism at university. I could type fast and with fair accuracy, so long as I looked at the keyboard. I’ve had a 38-year career since, behind a keyboard. I’m older now, still staring at the keyboard, but now piling on tons of keystroke errors. So much slower than I was at 25-30. I did get good at touch-typing a calculator, and it just sends home how much less frustrating it would be to have the proper muscle-memory training from touch-typing. I tried an online Mavis-Beacon course on weekends, but one hour at work would undo it all. mobby_6kl posted:I used to rotate people's screen if they left it unlocked, I think it was Intel's graphic drivers that had a shortcut so you could do it in one quick key stroke. Sadly that doesn't work any more on current versions. I have had two different cats, years apart, lay on my keyboard and somehow rotate the display 90-degrees. I had to call IT to figure out how to rotate it back. PainterofCrap has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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