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To keep the non-technophiles occupied while they wait for their external device to be detected, and to soothe them by giving them something to do (repeatedly) t
by EvilBanshee 11y ago
To keep the non-technophiles occupied while they wait for their external device to be detected, and to soothe them by giving them something to do (repeatedly) to "speed up" their ageing computer.
- chrisBob 11y agoYou are getting a lot of down votes, but the truth is that this behavior is very common in some cultures, and not all of HN may have seen it before. When I get impatient I just swirl the mouse in a small counter-clockwise circle, but I have seen others do the rapid right click, refresh sequence. It was mostly Asian computer users[0], and some of them had practiced it enough that they would do this 3-4 times per second while waiting for the computer to react. [0] I first noticed this in Iraq, but the Chinese students at school do the same thing.