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Back in college, I had a wireless infrared keyboard which also had a thumbstick for moving the mouse. My roommate didn't have his own PC so he would sometimes
by RajT88 3y ago
Back in college, I had a wireless infrared keyboard which also had a thumbstick for moving the mouse. My roommate didn't have his own PC so he would sometimes use mine. I would occasionally take my keyboard and move the mouse around which would confuse him.
Later he bought his own PC, and would loudly blare music while I was trying to study. I knew it was a cheap PC, and this was a time where CPU power was not massive, and his NIC card was cheap and offloaded to the CPU. So I just ping flooded him until the music started stuttering.
Lastly - a friend of mine eventually installed some sort of remote access software on my roommate's PC which he never locked. Again, the mouse moving gag, every ~15 minutes or so. But eventually, I moved the mouse over to the start menu, opened Paint, and drew "SATAN" which really freaked him out for a second until I burst out laughing.
- HankB99 3y ago> I would occasionally take my keyboard and move the mouse around which would confuse him. SWMBO and I had the same mouse a while back. One day she grabbed my mouse and was complaining "my mouse isn't working" while wiggling it back and forth. On my screen my mouse was zooming wildly all over the screen. She now uses a pink vertical mouse.
- livueta 3y agoDuring university I worked in campus IT, and we had a robust tradition of technical pranks. One day my mouse movement stopped working; clicks were fine but no cursor. I immediately started in tearing apart the OS of my workstation, looking for whatever they'd done to mess with it. Didn't find anything so started recompiling the kernel, thinking they'd really outdone themselves with a high-quality hack. It was only then that I noticed the sticky note over the sensor on the bottom of the mouse.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoSimilar one I did to a colleague just this summer. Went into the menu of their monitor and turned green all the way up, red and blue all the way down. They spent a day trying to debug their Ubuntu, swapping out cables etc. and were about to go order a new monitor when I had to confess.
- thebruce87m 3y ago> SWMBO This stands for “She Who Must Be Obeyed” for anyone as confused as I was.
- sakjur 3y agoThe Swedish term for people in a committed relationship that live together without being married is “sambo” (lit. “live together”), so my brain just connected it to that before second-guessing the W and capitalization.