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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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whaddya mean i gotta click three times every morning to get my work programs open. I want them open for me!!

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I just thought of something hella funny to do but not sure if it's even possible...

Can you have a .BAT file run at start? If so, Imma make one that executes the shutdown command then have it run at boot on my sister's machine. 😈

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

crt brightness could be brought down to zero back in the day.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can that not be done with LCDs and OLEDs? Turn off the backlighting at least?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I guess they can. I can with my current laptop but im sure I have had some that won't go below a certain low leve but could do it with mine. Im not sure modern ones would keep the setting on restart of the pc or screen though. With the old crts they would stay blank until you moved the little dial that a lot of people were unaware of.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On my old phone I wrote an app to write screen brightness values directly to the underlying Linux device. It bottomed out at either 3 or 5, which was still way below what the normal brightness slider allowed but it seems there's a hardcoded non-zero lower limit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Whoever hardcoded that probably was a victim of the prank one time too often. 😔

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

An oldie but goodie. enjoy the giggles