Sleater-Kinney - “God Is a Number”
1999
Earlier this year while working with a new computer and keyboard at the tax accounting office, this Mac guy found out that NUM lock isn’t a default on Windows keyboards. Because I didn’t work there every day, when logging in I would constantly forget to hit NUM lock and would type the wrong password. Thirty years ago or so, I read a column in an alt-weekly newspaper* that referred to Windows as “Soviet-era technology.” Apparently this is still the case. But who the hell wants their keyboard’s arrow keys as a default over its numbers?
To correct this, Reddit users advise the likes of editing the hard drive’s registry. Huh? If I had wanted to type code, I would have majored in computer programming. I also would have failed out of school. Gamble Hall forever, baby.
*Cosmo Kramer: “The alternative media, Jerry. That’s where you hear the truth.”