Sadly it’s a lot cheaper than a support hotline…

And it was always temporary!

I’ve had less fall out than I had cases where the screw stuck in the socket and it started unscrewing out of the motherboard that I just gave up on them altogether

Well, of course they are, but so is just about everything

Great thumbnail!

Dunno (or care!) about the rest of it. Kinda strange content for the technology community…

Oh yeah, I remember these! They were often shaped to fit in around the strip of function keys (and some weird ones down the side?)

Wow, that’s amazing - thanks!

No, not at all - I think it’s hilarious! You’ve completely misread me

I was just curious as to why them (obviously we’ve got to pick on someone)

I’ll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I’m just curious…

If you’ve got a spinning wheel of ‘who’s gonna get it today’ and Belgium came up, that’s fine, too

Well, I guess it is racist Wednesday for some of the planet currently, even if not my timezone …but why them?

Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.

A bullet is too good for them!

What a champ

Thank you. That was helpful

And anyone who knows what they’re doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there’s a reason there’s a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network… Input validation is a thing, and all that.

They just weren’t very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process

Holy crap - get to the point!

Good points, indeed

Maybe? But mouths heal so damn fast - and getting hot coffee on a wound sounds nasty

It’s deep down in the throat/belly not up near the mouth, from what little experience I’ve had (have managed it, but didn’t really learn)

Really? Wow…

Holy shit, you’re a madman

Funny the fictions we contrive for ourselves in our own heads.

There’s a real need to get ones world view/beliefs and the insecurities and inner critics in line in order to survive it seems.

That’s my latest conclusion, anyway. Distraction and drinking haven’t really helped. Shocking, I know…