Can a cat damage a TV screen?

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freitasm

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#2526003 20-Jul-2020 13:40

chevrolux:

Hahaha.... this is the kind of in-depth tech chat I come to Geekzone for.

Next thread, we should discuss the effect bugs crawling in to a computer case has on the system.

You obviously never worked in tech support. I never worked in that area of IT but heard some interesting... stories.

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#2526008 20-Jul-2020 13:51

freitasm:

You obviously never worked in tech support. I never worked in that area of IT but heard some interesting... stories.

You should share them. How about a new forum: Animal technology interface

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#2526010 20-Jul-2020 13:51

TV's with broken screens used to be useful for cats.

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#2526026 20-Jul-2020 14:34

chevrolux:

Hahaha.... this is the kind of in-depth tech chat I come to Geekzone for.

Next thread, we should discuss the effect bugs crawling in to a computer case has on the system.

No kidding, I once found a pretty decent sized (dead) RAT *inside* an old ATX power supply. I have a photo somewhere. Freaky.

The computer had been working up until a few days before and failed for an apparently unrelated issue (HDD).

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#2526029 20-Jul-2020 14:40

chevrolux:
Next thread, we should discuss the effect bugs crawling in to a computer case has on the system.

I'm not worried about bugs crawling on the case, it's all the bugs crawling through the software that are the pain.

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#2526038 20-Jul-2020 14:50

When I was a youngster, a mouse (the kind with whiskers and legs) ran into the cartridge port of our commodore 64. Didn't damage anything thankfully.

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#2526041 20-Jul-2020 15:19

If we don't pay attention to our cat while watching TV, it will go up to the screen and start pawing at it. Luckily it doesn't use it's claws, but it is a way that it uses to get attention.

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#2526076 20-Jul-2020 15:56

mattwnz:

If we don't pay attention to our cat while watching TV, it will go up to the screen and start pawing at it. Luckily it doesn't use it's claws, but it is a way that it uses to get attention.

That would sure get your attention if you had just outlaid 8K on a whopping OLED!!

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#2526086 20-Jul-2020 16:08

Not IT but ... we used to get live possums trapped in the maize silo on our farm.

It was quite a process to extract a live possum from 10 foot down in the maize silo, through a 300mm opening, without getting scratched while clinging to the external ladder, about 15 feet above the ground.

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