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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My mom when she walks in and I'm just staring at the default Windows desktop

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Win + d for the win

[–] flubba86 14 points 1 year ago

Like when your mum walks in and sees you masturbating to a blank MS word document.

[–] flubba86 10 points 1 year ago

Like when your boss walks in and sees staring at a generic spreadsheet with an Xbox controller in your hand.

[–] SpaceNoodle 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, since there's nothing you can do on a computer except for browse the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

these days people use the browser for everything, in the end the computer is just wrapping the browser, you could make an operating system that is just a browser... wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Soylent Green is people and The Cloud is someone else’s computer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do it! Profit!!

[–] Zaros 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This kinda happened to me once when she noticed my browser doesn't save history. I then spent the rest of the evening showing her how to do that on her browser as well as going through all the other browser settings, some extensions and themes (she picked one with purple and pink flowers).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's so sweet!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And then your mom checks the access logs on the router which stores all of your visits in plain text. And why? Because you forgot to use cue vpn ad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's their own fault for skipping past all the YouTube sponsorship infomercials.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Plot twist: You used celular instead of wifi

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being young enough that your parents know what browser history is 😬

Inb4 "stfu millennial" or something? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My parents thought MSN messenger would store all conversation logs even if I turned that feature off. They ended up paying somebody to scan the hard drive for something that didn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I openly do all my browsing incognito, because otherwise I end up with so many tabs that Firefox just displays a ∞ for the number

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one thing I actually like about chrome is if you end up with over 99 tabs open on mobile it displays :D as the number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve reached the cap on safari tabs before 🥲

[–] Cfrolich 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Safari on mobile caps at 500, and I hit that limit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I do this whenever I'm on someone else's computer, it means I can sign in to whatever and not have to worry about signing out later, super convenient

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] psycho_driver 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mom's just happy you didn't stumble upon her MILF stuff

[–] clearedtoland 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend that had this happen to them. It was devastating to see their parents like that.

[–] ItsABarmcake 5 points 1 year ago

That's what they told you? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My mom would call home and if she got a busy signal so many times throughout the day we were busted. Dial up sucked ass.

[–] Agent641 6 points 1 year ago

I was playing the maze game on screensaver

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Mom this browser doesn't recorded a history to protect me from companies tracking me online."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Someone saves history?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On windows 98 before clearing Internet history was a thing I knew how to do, I would just click log off and login to Windows under another random username.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I made Firefox focus on my phone my default browser so everything opens directly on it. If I know I will need something later, I will select open in... and Firefox. that way I keep away the cluther of 200+ tabs opened at the same time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hm, curious!