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Frustrating turns into Comedy Show idea

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posted on Aug, 28 2023 @ 12:19 PM
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So, I just had a pretty frustrating experience trying to connect some wireless gear up to an intel NUC 12 (mini-PC). Got everything working after mucho brain damage (the intel NUC chipset doesn't play nice with wireless stuff at all, and fixing it is some real 'voodoo' too! Only thing missing was chicken bones).

After I got all that done, I was lamenting the distance limitations of low power Bluetooth (i.e. can't work across the living room). Then, it occurred to me what life would be like in a huge office, with hundreds of people, if Bluetooth keyboards with unifying receivers had a range of about 100 yards! Most people set these things up generically, so it would be complete chaos! And...it would probably be funny as hell!

Boss sends out an email. Addressee is responding, hits (send), but before the email goes someone else's text string searching on midget porn gets appended to email response. Boss freaks out and fires back a flameogram, but someone else's mouse click selects a broadcast email recipient group to the entire company. Hundreds of people start firing emails off left and right, each one getting jacked up worse with fragments of other people's typing and mouse clicks. Within minutes complete anarchy breaks out with people pounding keyboards and throwing stuff. Massive brawl ensues.

It'd kind of be like... Office Space - Millennial Style Redux.

🤣



posted on Aug, 28 2023 @ 12:25 PM
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Chicken bones, chuckle chuckle.



posted on Aug, 28 2023 @ 12:38 PM
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a reply to: TerryMcGuire LOL! Oh, and it was just that bad too!

Seriously, like I had to hook a BT Unifying RX unit to a short extension cable because onboard BT 3.0 needs resistance between the RX and the main board in the Intel NUC! So, it wouldn't work with the BT RX plugged directly into the USB slot on the board.



posted on Aug, 29 2023 @ 08:46 AM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

The other day I was frustrated by a Bell Co. service appearance having too short of wires. So I extended them using a wire connector meant for AC power ... heh heh. I was amazed the DSL worked over it!

Cheers




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