• PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Unlike many others in this thread, I can’t download any programs on my work laptop. I just don’t have permissions.

    So I found a much lower tech way of staying green. I go to the chat with yourself chat. Then I put a 3 pound weight on the backspace button. This keeps me green forever.

    With my old work laptop, I was able to press backspace then wedge a set of tweezers in the key to hold it down.

    Whatever works lol.

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      16 days ago

      Same with my wife. Which is why I gave her an esp32 with a program on it that makes it pretend to be a mouse. It will randomly move just like a regular mouse and the computer cannot tell it’s not actually a mouse. Just plug it in whenever you want to walk away.

    • hachenihi@quokk.au
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      16 days ago

      I used to open a blank document and put something heavy on the spacebar, too. That was until someone unveild me the secret technique of placing a spoon on the laptop’s touchpad. It changed my life.

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          11 days ago

          Interesting. Maybe you could play with the sensitivity or maybe it just doesn’t work with that spoon or pad.

          When I leave it there then after settling it does not interfere, yet seems to do ‘enough’. At first when I heard of this I did not think it could work but it does.

          Sometimes though teams is broken and changes status all the time then it needs a reboot and goes back to working.