I wish I lived in this world…
wasn’t there a Microsoft error with a frozen screen that could be resolved by moving the mouse continuously?
Being frustrated and taking your frustration out like this is far more prevalent even outside our species. Primates do it, canines also.
There smth about the way our brain work (across species) that doing these actions soothes us. There is same logic behind cursing, it relieves us in a strange way. Maybe thats why AI don’t get frustrated like this
I wonder if it was just me but I heard that clicking a dead spot could help when a computer was freezing or lagging
With love and respect,
Maybe with some specific use case related to gpu rendering or something, but even then it would be more like forcing it to repaint part of the screen not clicking in the right place.
As a developer, I can say with confidence that generally there’s just no way that clicking a random spot will help the code suddenly execute correctly or faster or help a resource free up so execution can continue or whatever.
There’s just way too many kinds of freezes and lagging that this advice is all but useless and akin to a placebo at best.
it’s an interrupt of sorts, isn’t it? if the OS has frozen all other threads but the mouse is still operable, sending repeated clicks/IRQs could saturate the CPU’s limited interrupt buffer and force it to pause or kill the hanging process
I was shocked when I first started working in the tech industry how many people will still click a ‘request’ or ‘send’ button multiple times if it doesn’t IMMEDIATELY go through or grey out the button.
Then they wonder why it gives them 14 copies of the same error.
“Well, how many times did you hit ‘request’? 15? Hmm. What could it be? We’ll never know.”
Prettyuch sums up why I switched to Linux, no more oopsie popups, more actual info on what went wrong
Eh, what do you expect from buggy software?
