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qingcharles on Sept 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

Argh. My own mouse not working one:

- Use to fix PCs professionally in the early 90s.

- Guy comes in with PC. Right-mouse button stopped working.

- Replace mouse. Still not working.

- Play with Windows 3.1 drivers. Nothing helps.

- Pull HDD from another PC, install, boot. Mouse button still broken. WTF.

- Pull whole mobo, put another spare mobo in, with replacement HDD and replacement mouse. Still don't work.

- Replace PSU. Right-button works.

- Give up on computers, live in wilderness, eat squirrels.

irrational on Sept 20, 2023 [–]

I used to know an older woman who did trap and eat squirrels as her main source of protein, so... this isn't entirely unlikely.

qup on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

What was her trap like?

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