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nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?

also how does one stop the rapid mitosis of fedora's in grub, they keep multiplying

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 92 points 6 months ago (6 children)

How does one accidently holds down the down arrow for 40 minutes?

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Til we have a sillicon valley sub

Edit: nvm that's reddit

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure. But he does have a down arrow imprint on his forehead.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 35 points 6 months ago

aang aint got shit on me

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't have a cat, do you?

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 months ago

Cats do it on purpose, not accidentally.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 6 months ago

I once crashed gdm by accidentally leaving some object on top of my keyboard which depressed some keys for hours.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 7 points 6 months ago

doing the dishes and browing lemmy

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Not sure about the down arrow in particular but I have seen objects (e.g. a corner of a book) accidentally lie on a key at the edge of a keyboard before.