Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[ColinJ]

Can you remap it to a key that you never use? Failing that get some canned air. That usually works.

Read the PS! 5 or 6 years worth of gunk was thick enough to need scraping out, so I don't know if air would have shifted it all...

I did wonder about using another key, but I have been using QWERTY keyboards for over 40 years so it would be hard to get used to something like a EWQRTY!

 

[winjim]

Read the PS! 5 or 6 years worth of gunk was thick enough to need scraping out, so I don't know if air would have shifted it all...

I did wonder about using another key, but I have been using QWERTY keyboards for over 40 years so it would be hard to get used to something like a EWQRTY!

I'm sure I remember reading that with more people eating lunch at their desks these days there's been an increase in keyboards getting gunked up with mouse droppings as they come out at night to forage round the office for crumbs.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I'm sure I remember reading that with more people eating lunch at their desks these days there's been an increase in keyboards getting gunked up with mouse droppings as they come out at night to forage round the office for crumbs.

My laptop doesn’t have a mouse, it has a trackpad 😉

 

[ColinJ]

My laptop doesn’t have a mouse, it has a trackpad 😉

My current mouse doesn't produce droppings, but was bought after the previous one's dropping***...




*** Onto a hard surface, breaking its scroller wheel!

 

[ExBrit]

Aborigine comes from the Latin phrase Ab Origine meaning From the Beginning
Came to me in an epiphany last week. I knew two years of Latin would be useful one day. It just took 50 years.

 

[sevenfourate]

Aborigine comes from the Latin phrase Ab Origine meaning From the Beginning
Came to me in an epiphany last week. I knew two years of Latin would be useful one day. It just took 50 years.

You remind me of me. It's not always easy being exceptionally sharp.......

 

[presta]

That there's a little tab on You Tube that says 'Play to TV', and it does.

I'd never noticed it, and even then I assumed it wouldn't work without a dongle, but it plays via the Humax. Not sure what use it is, the Humax will show You Tube without the laptop anyway.

 

[ColinJ]

the Humax will show You Tube without the laptop anyway.

True, but it is a pain controlling it via the TV remote control! Ditto with the YouTube app built in to my old smart TV. I don't think either of them do HD. (720 p max?)

 

[cougie uk]

That my shower has two heating elements in and when it's on eco - it uses just the one.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Not a recent one, but when I was in high school 1st year we had a telling off in assembly from the head teacher, to say that someone has been castrating mice in the IT suite. I didn't know what the heck he was on about. I thought some people were bringing in real live mice and taking their balls off. Why would anyone do that, and wouldn't it make a terrible mess? It was a few months later that I realised he was referring to the tracking balls in the mice, kids had just been nicking them for a laugh

 

[Chris S]

Sting and Stuart Copeland used to bleach their hair blonde.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sting and Stuart Copeland used to bleach their hair blonde.

I've just been reading a book about Kim Philby and there's a fair bit about Stuart Copeland's dad, Miles, who was in the CIA. Nothing about his use of hair products though

 

[presta]

That Lavender Haze is by Taylor Swift.

I thought it was by Yardley.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Like this Twitter user I'd never come across quadruple-A batteries before

View: https://twitter.com/SteveM4_/status/1625089688338894851

 

[Electric_Andy]

Like this Twitter user I'd never come across quadruple-A batteries before

View: https://twitter.com/SteveM4_/status/1625089688338894851

I must admit, I'd didn't know they existed either