• ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “What color are the pins on the electrical cord?”

    No matter the answer, you can be damn sure they rebooted.

    A bit harder in the laptop era though.

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        I think the idea is that average people have no clue what color they are. So they’d be forced to take it out to check and thus have to restart their PC. It’s a trick!

        Altho, maybe I’m misunderstanding something because all the pins of all the electrical cords I’ve ever seen have been silver?

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        4 months ago

        I’d make up some BS about an old version of the product using brass or copper, and newer versions using aluminum or iron, so knowing the color will help me know how to fix it

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        Stainless is probably more likely than copper, but the point is to trick them into unplugging the thing