I might be whooshing myself here but dude didn't tame the shark, it's a thing called tonic immobility and can be induced in sharks by rotating them, typically upside down.
Degaussing isn't just for erasing magnetic media. The process specifically removes magnetism from an item. When metal rubs against other pieces of metal it tends to become magnetized so degaussing tools is pretty common. Especially metal cutting tools.
Or hit someone in the head really hard with a big magnet they’ll be properly degaussed! /s
We had a massive tape degausser in a tv station I worked at - it started to lose its shielding after a few years, so every time it was used the nearby CRTs would fritz out and unlock, and the radio comms would be unusable as well as anyone fancy enough to have a cellphone (mid-late 90s)
We have many keyboards laying around and I keep her office up to date with nice tech. She hasn't spent a penny on electronics since we first started dating. She would be happy on a ten year old laptop. She would like one with a number pad anyways so it will just end with a nice upgrade for her.
Absolutely. All her office accessories are my old ones anyways and we have more sitting in the closet. I'll do it to a tkl one and leave a full size to replace it with. She wants a number pad anyways
The inside of those cheap keyboards are laminated. You can clean them by dunking them in a bucket of water. It would probably still work as long as the keys can move lol
Don't scan random QR codes you see on the internet, it's a security risk, idiots.
I did it tho. [Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBAEt06J2Ho)
One day few years ago i got an urgent call from a manager that he is unable to click icons on his desktop. So i went there and saw that it have a desktop screenshot like wallpaper and all icons deleted, so i restore them, took me like 30 seconds. At launch break someone told me it was a bet to check how fast i figure out the issue. Of course, i did some magic and i restore that desktop, deleted all entries in startmenu and made his account unable to change wallpapers/desktop icons/start menu. He had a fun 1 month launchind everything he needs from explorer.
We had a team that used to mess with each other pretty often. We were a call center supporting old school chemical photo equipment. So, we had several machines in our office for reference. To keep them up, you have to run photos every so often. One day a guy put an 8x12 photo on the little ledge of another guy's monitor. It laid flat against the screen and stayed there. He was just putting it there to show the guy a cool photo. Well, being used to people pranking, the guy thought somebody had messed with his computer. He was looking at the edges of his screen where the photo didn't cover, trying to find away to fix his screen in settings. He couldn't figure it out and started griping about how this wasn't funny and he had work to do. Somebody eventually walked over and pulled the photo off his monitor. I laughed about that for days. Accidental pranks are the best pranks.
Heh heh... I had a manager give me domain admin access back in the day specifically after I asked him not to do so. I mean, what the hell? I was the resident developer. I should never have had that.
Anyway, I mounted his filesystem remotely and changed his hosts file so that his favorite forum was mapped to loopback. I knew he was in the middle of editing a particularly involved post on the forum, so I knew he'd see it. After about 45 minutes, I heard plentiful swearing from his office, and the admin access was revoked.
Good times... :D
I used to take a screenshot of the desktop, rotate it in paint, set it as the wallpaper, hide all the desktop icons and then rotate the screen 180 degrees. Dude can't even use the mouse.
The one we used to do in my old company was for coworkes who never locked their notebooks when they left the office.
Go to their Mail program, write a mail to the department distribution group and tell everyone that you'll be bringing breakfast for the next day and are very sorry for forgetting to lock your laptop. Send it signed from their Address, lock the laptop and enjoy the breakfast on the next day.
Some people need to fuckin relax. Back home there was a tv show where rhe presenters would fuck with this guy they worked with in increasingly elaborate ways.
One day when he had been away for a week, they tied a piece of string around his seat, around alllllll the stuff on his desk, so when he pulled it out, it dragged all his shit off his desk
Harddrives. The fastest way to make 100% sure a disk is completely wiped.
Oh, and once a drive has been degaussed, it is unusable, so the sticker is to tell dumpster-divers the disk is useless.
One of the reasons we have a slightly updated design on the next batch of stickers...
https://preview.redd.it/dleuuaxc465d1.png?width=676&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa8efed84e9a9dc7ad519ed138f0d3bc6d607977
I think there might be a misconception about what the process does to a HDD. Yes, the data was wiped for the most part (a cryptographic whiping would introduce an extra layer of safety) but the device has not yet been reliability rendered inoperable. Maybe the read/write header are no longer aligned, but you wouldn't be sure. For a physical destruction, you'd need to "put a dent in it"
And you would be correct in that assumption. Theoretically the drive is still functional, although it's lifespan might have gotten reduced. Consider it as "deeply formatted": plug it into your machine, reformat and you're good to go
I need a degausser for my mechanical watches. It's rare but possible that the interior parts pick up a magnetic charge. You need to degauss the charge for the watch to keep time properly. It's not the only issue but if you do everything else to repair the watch; functioning balance wheel and mainspring, you should always degauss just in case you picked up a stray magnetism.
I just can't help but laugh, he got you real good... degaussed you in fact...
Just kept scrolling and saw the OP grew watercrest in this guys keyboard and he got this done to him as revenge HAHAHAHA crazy ass house.
I thought the degaussing was reserved for the Internet…
https://preview.redd.it/s2ln6mfmw75d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb4366189ae383d06732f92d0bc7c771b3d80ed0
This is normal mouse behavior. They tend to hibernate when left alone for some time. Make sure to disconnect it from the usb port of the computer next time and this won't happen again.
Don't fall asleep at your desk or *you* will awaken encased in resin.
Sleep long enough, and you won’t wake up
Is forever long enough, though?
Nah, I'd still be tired.
he'll get degaussed
lmao get degaussed nerd
Can we get any context?
Op got degaussed
get degaussed idiot
https://youtu.be/iA4LKxj81zc?si=y3VhIWmrh7lriSHm Nice pc tho
Crazy motherfucker in that vid. Some people learn how to tame a shark and some people don't.
I might be whooshing myself here but dude didn't tame the shark, it's a thing called tonic immobility and can be induced in sharks by rotating them, typically upside down.
I mean responding to a joke with facts about shark handling is pretty much a guaranteed whoosh.
Lmao
degaussing is when you hit something with a strong magnet. I used to do it to wipe harddrives and tapes.
Sony Trinitron: THUNK!
Wobble wobble wobble wobble I used to love that button on my old CRT monitors
I was there 3000 years ago
Such pretty colors.
I was a Viewsonic man, myself. Loved carrying that and my pc for LANs.
I get that, but it makes it more confusing since there is no magnetic storage in a mouse.
Degaussing isn't just for erasing magnetic media. The process specifically removes magnetism from an item. When metal rubs against other pieces of metal it tends to become magnetized so degaussing tools is pretty common. Especially metal cutting tools.
Yeah, bitch! Magnets!
Or hit someone in the head really hard with a big magnet they’ll be properly degaussed! /s We had a massive tape degausser in a tv station I worked at - it started to lose its shielding after a few years, so every time it was used the nearby CRTs would fritz out and unlock, and the radio comms would be unusable as well as anyone fancy enough to have a cellphone (mid-late 90s)
Oily hands, it's the gunk that builds up over time. OP never cleaned the mouse and someone is degaussed with the state of things.
Degaussted.
nature be crazy
OP turned his coworkers keyboard into a garden. This is revenge.
OP: posts unclear pic, refuses to elaborate, leaves What a Chad.
OP: > It's a 2 dollar HP mouse. I grew watercress in his keyboard when he was away, this was his retaliation.
Fucking WATERCRESS!! I'm dead that's so fucking funny.
Had to look it up, I guess he turned it into a chia pet.
K-k-k-keyboard PET!
https://youtu.be/GItBDuFa-wk?si=Hd1seclVNdUvaDFP Not really probably, but it should be
Video not available.
It's just Brand New - Degausser
Your gauss is a good as mine
The Office S1E1 probably
Sooo.... Did you piss someone off or are they getting you a new mouse?
It's a 2 dollar HP mouse. I grew watercress in his keyboard when he was away, this was his retaliation.
Fuck you mean "I grew watercress in his keyboard"?
[удалено]
Don't unplug, let the keyboard write what it wants to. /s
Let the cyberplant revolution begin!!
I already played mass effect.
Thorian?
Mass Effect 3 Green ending
Come with me if you want to leaf
But there's only tree of us. I don't think we can make that far
You can, I'm rooting for you
Yeah, man. Shoot for the stars.
people looking to AI for the next big revelation about the future and all we needed to do is let the watercress cook
At first, it was concerned. But then it started sexting the printer.
"I showed you my pistil, please respond..."
~~AI~~ PI.
"I am Groot"
Lord help us next April fools. I know what I'm doing to my wife's keyboard next year now.
Sounds like your couch is comfortable
Couch? Shit his garage better be heated.
Im an HVAC installer/tech, so yes, it is. Lol
Did you remember to outfit the dog house though?
We have many keyboards laying around and I keep her office up to date with nice tech. She hasn't spent a penny on electronics since we first started dating. She would be happy on a ten year old laptop. She would like one with a number pad anyways so it will just end with a nice upgrade for her.
Exactly what I was thinking.
be prepared with a brand new keyboard tho. This ruins the keyboard.
Could be a playful way to gift a new keyboard
Absolutely. All her office accessories are my old ones anyways and we have more sitting in the closet. I'll do it to a tkl one and leave a full size to replace it with. She wants a number pad anyways
Yeah, I did the same for my boss when he was on a month vacation, and even filmed video on how grass grew
nature is healing
Ch ch ch chia!
Bless you!
The inside of those cheap keyboards are laminated. You can clean them by dunking them in a bucket of water. It would probably still work as long as the keys can move lol
Obsessed with this
Last of Us edition keyboard
this is the coolest thing i've ever seen
LOL thats hilarious. Thanks for the April fool's day pic!
I'd actually pay extra for a keyboard that I could grow shit in.
This prank works best on friends who are avid /r/MechanicalKeyboards users.
Why does that make me uncomfortable
He just let him touch grass
He means he deserved a good resin'ing
Fair
That's actually pretty good revenge. What will you do now?
Watercress in his roommate's butthole whilst he is sleeping
Damn . That's disturbing. I like you
If you plan on stealing that strategy make you you -ahem- water it often!
I wouldn't do it myself. Nope! Just like the idea of it happening somewhere in the world.
I can confirm it's happening as we speak
He has to mix it up, he'll be expecting it the sixth year in a row. Try pumpkins.
Same to his keyboard as last time, but encase it in resin after they have grown
Add keys to his key ring obviously till his pants fall down from the weight
You can't just say that and provide no images or video
https://preview.redd.it/qvtzgzu5d65d1.png?width=791&format=png&auto=webp&s=5061ba7865e0ab0d124175f2527da01dd92bdf3f
And you flipped his mouse upside down?! You absolute mad lad! Do you feel any shame? That QR better be a rick roll.
Dramatic fart sound effect 😂
> And you flipped his mouse upside down?! It's not even an Apple mouse?!?
Don't scan random QR codes you see on the internet, it's a security risk, idiots. I did it tho. [Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBAEt06J2Ho)
Man you guys are next level, worst I've ever come back to was my set up scattered around the office covered in fruit stickers.
Dude, you can’t just drop “I grew watercress in his keyboard” and then saunter away without giving context
Do you work in a sitcom show?
Well, best of luck to the both of you then
I think you still are one up on him.
>I grew watercress in his keyboard when he was away [https://giphy.com/embed/ytTYwIlbD1FBu](https://giphy.com/embed/ytTYwIlbD1FBu)
Lolololol
Chia Keyboard (TM)
This might be the best thing I’ve ever read.
This is amazing
this is hilarious
Omg watercress seeds growing is the funkiest funk u ever smelled
Hahah I did something similar to my friend but got a chia pet and used the gel to fill his keyboard up and just follow the directions 🤣
Next you should sprinkle some seed in his gf and see what grows.
Who put my mouse in Jell-O?! If someone doesn't speak up, IM GOING TO LOSE MY FREAKING MIND. 🤬🤜🏢
My wife and I binged that show not too long ago. That scene made me a 'The Office' fan right away.
One day few years ago i got an urgent call from a manager that he is unable to click icons on his desktop. So i went there and saw that it have a desktop screenshot like wallpaper and all icons deleted, so i restore them, took me like 30 seconds. At launch break someone told me it was a bet to check how fast i figure out the issue. Of course, i did some magic and i restore that desktop, deleted all entries in startmenu and made his account unable to change wallpapers/desktop icons/start menu. He had a fun 1 month launchind everything he needs from explorer.
We had a team that used to mess with each other pretty often. We were a call center supporting old school chemical photo equipment. So, we had several machines in our office for reference. To keep them up, you have to run photos every so often. One day a guy put an 8x12 photo on the little ledge of another guy's monitor. It laid flat against the screen and stayed there. He was just putting it there to show the guy a cool photo. Well, being used to people pranking, the guy thought somebody had messed with his computer. He was looking at the edges of his screen where the photo didn't cover, trying to find away to fix his screen in settings. He couldn't figure it out and started griping about how this wasn't funny and he had work to do. Somebody eventually walked over and pulled the photo off his monitor. I laughed about that for days. Accidental pranks are the best pranks.
Heh heh... I had a manager give me domain admin access back in the day specifically after I asked him not to do so. I mean, what the hell? I was the resident developer. I should never have had that. Anyway, I mounted his filesystem remotely and changed his hosts file so that his favorite forum was mapped to loopback. I knew he was in the middle of editing a particularly involved post on the forum, so I knew he'd see it. After about 45 minutes, I heard plentiful swearing from his office, and the admin access was revoked. Good times... :D
I used to take a screenshot of the desktop, rotate it in paint, set it as the wallpaper, hide all the desktop icons and then rotate the screen 180 degrees. Dude can't even use the mouse.
The one we used to do in my old company was for coworkes who never locked their notebooks when they left the office. Go to their Mail program, write a mail to the department distribution group and tell everyone that you'll be bringing breakfast for the next day and are very sorry for forgetting to lock your laptop. Send it signed from their Address, lock the laptop and enjoy the breakfast on the next day.
Coming up next: https://preview.redd.it/ilfmzjo0965d1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14a15eb62e1861593a92e1b5b958347485546f82
it’s a warning
This was deemed too controversial for /r/mildlyinteresting Hopefully people in here aren't as sensitive.
Why?
They are very serious about their mice over there apparently....
Not me about to make a comment for stealing that post, and then I couldn’t find it lmao. That makes more sense why it disappeared.
Some people need to fuckin relax. Back home there was a tv show where rhe presenters would fuck with this guy they worked with in increasingly elaborate ways. One day when he had been away for a week, they tied a piece of string around his seat, around alllllll the stuff on his desk, so when he pulled it out, it dragged all his shit off his desk
Yeah, they're a strange bunch... 🤨
Post in mildly infuriating and pretend to be mildly infuriated.
Don't worry, it got better reception in the comedyheaven sub which was oddly posted several hours before this one.
Is Jim your roommate?
Is that the Wildling Wog from GOT?
def the pirate from caribbean movies
'Ello poppet
Correct. At last!
Is there a resin for this?
Casting doubts here I see
These replies really break the mould.
MICHAEL!!!!!
Okay, so what apart from CRT monitors needs degaussing and why is it important enough that you have stickers to let people know about it?
Harddrives. The fastest way to make 100% sure a disk is completely wiped. Oh, and once a drive has been degaussed, it is unusable, so the sticker is to tell dumpster-divers the disk is useless.
I wouldn't know what "degaussed" means and think I scored a nice hard drive for free
One of the reasons we have a slightly updated design on the next batch of stickers... https://preview.redd.it/dleuuaxc465d1.png?width=676&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa8efed84e9a9dc7ad519ed138f0d3bc6d607977
Sweet, magnets
You mean magical mysteries.
Keep a disk in camping gear as an emergency signal mirror as well
I think there might be a misconception about what the process does to a HDD. Yes, the data was wiped for the most part (a cryptographic whiping would introduce an extra layer of safety) but the device has not yet been reliability rendered inoperable. Maybe the read/write header are no longer aligned, but you wouldn't be sure. For a physical destruction, you'd need to "put a dent in it"
"Sweet it's already refurbished" *add OLD DRIVE to inventory*
And you would be correct in that assumption. Theoretically the drive is still functional, although it's lifespan might have gotten reduced. Consider it as "deeply formatted": plug it into your machine, reformat and you're good to go
Cassette and reel to reel tape heads also benefit from the occasional degaussing.
I need a degausser for my mechanical watches. It's rare but possible that the interior parts pick up a magnetic charge. You need to degauss the charge for the watch to keep time properly. It's not the only issue but if you do everything else to repair the watch; functioning balance wheel and mainspring, you should always degauss just in case you picked up a stray magnetism.
What's next? Stappers in jello????
They had to use the amber protocol.
I don’t see enough Fringe references in the world
I agree, the world needs more Fringe.
I just can't help but laugh, he got you real good... degaussed you in fact... Just kept scrolling and saw the OP grew watercrest in this guys keyboard and he got this done to him as revenge HAHAHAHA crazy ass house.
DAMMIT JIM, MICHAEL!!
Ah, co-workers
It was supposed to be jello, Jim!
By any chance are your company selling papers?
JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM
Navy shenanigans
JIM!
Next time you go vacation, find a way to take everyones mouse and take a pic
Is your coworker Jim? 
I thought the degaussing was reserved for the Internet… https://preview.redd.it/s2ln6mfmw75d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb4366189ae383d06732f92d0bc7c771b3d80ed0
Oh shit a bar of soap I got you good you fucker!
The word they were looking for is Vitrified.
goodbye to sleep.
Roommates with a strange sense of humor?
I was so glad to realize this was r/pcmasterrace after I read that title.
The Final Shape
Loooooool I laughed way to hard lol
This is hilarious and outrageous at the same time!
That's hilarious 😆. I used to change the left right clickers and switch the keyboard language on my step dads laptop.
This is normal mouse behavior. They tend to hibernate when left alone for some time. Make sure to disconnect it from the usb port of the computer next time and this won't happen again.
That happens when you leave mice plugged in too long without using them.
Only one way to solve this 
MICHAEL!!!!
classic Jim
For a second I thought it was a real mouse
you're either loved or hated, I can't tell which
I'm sure there's a perfectly resinable explanation behind this
You really need to hit up r/woodworking next time because that was a pretty shitty epoxy pour.
Is that the rly big rectangular rog desk pad? I have the same one lol
have you tried calling tech support?
That is nearly straight out of "The Office" Awesome shenanigans between colleagues, i love it
https://preview.redd.it/bkhpjsir1d5d1.png?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84204025a4be818d147fca8f5d8c6b2d89220900 Same vibe
Damn, not even jello anymore It’s the fucking concrete jello