• Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    15 hours ago

    I bring up the mouse wiggling thing all the time when I’m sharing my screen at work. I get impatient with computers very easily, so I start wiggling and jiggling and doing figure 8s with my mouse cursor and say that “it makes the computer go faster.” Then I get to be distracted by telling someone how that used to be kiiinda true back in the good ol’ days of PS2 and single threaded cooperatively-multitasked operating systems (the fact that PS2 sends hardware interrupts still blows my mind a bit).

    Funnily enough, I learned about it from a greybeard who did a stint at Novell. He’d constantly jiggle his mouse around while waiting for shit and I bet he was just waiting for me to ask him why he thought it made the computer “faster.”

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      3 hours ago

      I was confused by this message, thinking that you were randomly distracted by discussing PlayStation 2 performance with someone, until I remembered PS/2.

      At least it wasn’t 5-pin. I might have thought you were talking about S-video.