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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sadly, this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.

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[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the port get shutdown/disabled if you try to overload it?

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

the wise committee who designed such ports made the directly access the rest of motherboard and CPU

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago

Man I'm so sorry to my highschool Chromebook. They gave me that shit in yr seven and I was incapable of keeping things in one piece at that age. I think every key had been taken off by the end of the year and there were several holes in the outer casing.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Behold the next generation of voters.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

It's how the US got Trump. The "Trump Train" was a meme, first.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.

Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?

Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can't seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.

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[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Chromebooks are absolute garbage.

Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port" with some regularity)

Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though... it gets red hot and melts eventually

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with things like that would be like...

But I also wasn't inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend...

[–] aTun@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought system will turn off USB port if notice current over draw. Look like I am wrong.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What i saw they were shorting the charging ports, not the USB slots.

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)
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