Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it’s been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Random computer quirks always fascinate me. The strangest one I had involved a computer that shouldn’t have existed.

    One time in the early aughts I had a patchwork computer that I put together from the junk pile of a local computer store that a buddy of mine ran.

    It was barely holding together in a rusty frame, with zip ties and wood glue.

    Its modem was temperamental as hell. It would only stay online so long as it was pinging a website via command prompt. It was only some websites, too. Like I could ping Geocities, but not livejournel.

    I remember many weekends doing Mephisto runs in Diablo II, praying that my command prompt doesn’t bug out anytime I’d get anything worthwhile.

      • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I’d be very interested in your theory.

        I thought it had something to do with the distance to the server or ping timeout, but that is more of a guess.

        I’ve not experienced that problem again despite working as a network engineer for 20 years