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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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When I was 8, I remember being bored and curious and touching a lot of parents stuff... phones... wallets... legal documents...

Most parents don't put their stuff in safes...

Like... THE WALLET IS RIGHT THERE... I COULD JUST GRAB IT!

If they had age verification stuff back then... I could've just... quickly snap a pic of their ID and just YOLO it...

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It's more about a difficulty barrier.

You could grab your Dad's ID, you could AI his face, his voice, even his writing style. But if that's too inconvenient/finicky for 90% of the population, that's "good enough" for the liability escape/coercive control the system is intended to create.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Bruh kids these days manage to steal a teacher's login to access the school wifi. Then they also have VPNs to bypass the firewall. They be playing video games in the school lunchroom lmfao. I seen it.

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

kids these days

At our school (in the 90s), Duke Nukem 3D was installed on the entire computer lab. You could play death matches against everyone over LAN.
They even set up a keyboard shortcut to instantly kill the game, unmount the partition it was on, and drop you back to your working directory when the teacher walked up to your seat.

If you wanted class to get more interesting, you'd send a telnet message to the teacher's PC that looked like it was infected by a virus. Or launch the script that made all floppy disk drive's loading sounds play the Imperial March.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Kids these days? I remember putting a IRC/Runescape combo program on a flash drive so I could play Runescape with my guild during computer class 20 years ago. I have no idea why it got around the network restrictions, but it did.

Edit: The after school computer club turned into a Wolfenstein LAN party after somebody got on the teacher's account and put a pirated installer on the shared drive.