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Laptops have soul (infosec.pub)
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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This person and I have had wildly different laptop experiences.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yours actually have legs?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In french the word "marcher" can be used either for "walking" or for "functioning/working".

The classic prank was to call random numbers in the phonebooth and ask "does your fridge work/walk?" Pretending you're trying to sell them a new one and when they'd say yes to get rid of you, you'd suggest them to buy it some shoes (damn weren't we smart in the 90s).

All that to say, there's a joke around that concept somewhere in there.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In English the joke is "is your fridge running?" followed by "well you better run after it!"

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Haha! I laughed. (My language is French)

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

We have the same joke in English: ‘Is your fridge running?’

[–] don@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Well duh. How else do you expect it to use chopsticks? Like cmon now.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And an intense will to live