In that guy's defense, you as a user have EVERY right to be pissed if your machine thrashes so badly that your system stops responding in an era of 32 Gb of RAM and 8 core CPUs.
We had a mainframe that, because user IO was a higher priority than background jobs, would slowdown the server by a user treating the F5 button like he was in a competition playing Track and Field in the televised 100m dash event while waiting for work to populate. That system was well over 32gb of ram with many more than 8 cores.
Last Windows 11 update got stuck. Really stuck. Killed it with the off switch, it rebooted into the logo screen and did nothing else. I waved my ventoy USB at it and threatened to give it the Linux treatment and went to sleep. This morning it booted as if nothing had happened?
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umbrella@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 36d
sometimes you can fix stuff by punching it.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d
We used to call it percussive therapy.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 34d
Sounds like loading screen advice in a video game
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 36d
In that guy's defense, you as a user have EVERY right to be pissed if your machine thrashes so badly that your system stops responding in an era of 32 Gb of RAM and 8 core CPUs.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 3 pts · 36d
Especially if the OS or the program just says "fuck you! Wait until it solves itself or get fucked" instead of "the problem is XYZ"
CaffeineMan@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 36d
We had a mainframe that, because user IO was a higher priority than background jobs, would slowdown the server by a user treating the F5 button like he was in a competition playing Track and Field in the televised 100m dash event while waiting for work to populate. That system was well over 32gb of ram with many more than 8 cores.
We had to talk to him.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 36d
Relatable
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
In tech support we called the mouse the "math coprocessor", and any interactions with it sped up all computation.
Trail@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Could be low system entropy while generating a hash or key and the mouse input is helping it.
There was some program that was asking you to move the mouse while it was generating a seed or something, but I don't remember which one.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 36d
It's GPG that you're probably thinking of:
Trail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Yes I guess so.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 36d
Last Windows 11 update got stuck. Really stuck. Killed it with the off switch, it rebooted into the logo screen and did nothing else. I waved my ventoy USB at it and threatened to give it the Linux treatment and went to sleep. This morning it booted as if nothing had happened?