T. Boone... I think it's a random southern tradition.

On my 2001 4Runner, the window controls have an auto-up, where pulling the switch all the way puts the window up automatically. My wife's 2007 Camry does not, and you have to hold the switch up the whole time to roll the window all the way up.

It is unbelievably annoying every time I drive her car.

When I was young, we had handles that had to be cranked in a circle to open or close the windows. You kids these days are spoiled, with your "power windows".

I’m old enough to still do the crank pantomime for “roll it down”. For that matter my kids have never physically hung up a phone either. Still say hang up, tho.

Work had this phone training thing for youngs that explained stuff like dial tone and no 'call' button (the call just goes after you dial the last number)

People with 9s and 0s in their number when we had rotary phones

Making a local call and still having to dial the area code first.

the word "phablet"

that's not a word

And that a rotary phone would not allow you to drag the dial back to the original position any faster than it would go when you simply took your finger off it.

yeah that was so annoying

upon further review they were a colony of Sweden then Russia and eventually worked with the Nazis. so, not Scandinavian.

My Dell ssd laptop fan is loud and ****, and cycles every 30 seconds from off to medium to high speed. I did next to no research before I bought it, and have done almost zero research on how to fix the pos. Which is why it snpmo. imo.

I know how to address this! I’ll post when I get home.

Dear Dell,

I live a few miles from one of his houses. Peeing on his probably electrified fence seems like a better option than writing a letter.

So I have the answer, as I said, but the convo took an interesting turn. I'll give it to you with a promise that you will pee on an electric fence in the future, doesn't have to be Dell's.

End task on WavesSysSvc Service Application. It keeps your CPU running above the threshold for the medium or high fan and according to Binged forum threads. Anecdotal evidence of doing this myself for the last 6-8 months, it doesn't matter if you shut it down. Must redo after every restart.

Thanks will give it a try. In a noisy room now, but will report back on fan and fence.

That's why I have another HP instead of the Dell I was planning on buying. Many bad reviews complaining about the loud and constant fan.

Didn't work. After a little research, it is a common complaint and no good fix. There is also a Dell Children's Hospital in town too. Maybe I should piss on it instead to let those sick kids know what a jerk Michael Dell is for selling me a computer that is too loud.

Yeah I spent about a week searching forums for the answer. I may have removed something else, also, but every time I restart I have to shut that process down. It does work for me, tho.

little dogs

It's the clicking on the return that signals the number. If you sped it up it wouldn't register.

When I was a teenager, I worked at a pool/tennis club (conveniently located right next door to our house) and the phone at the front desk had a small lock through the 1 hole on the dial. This was to prevent us kids from using the phone for personal calls...the phone was for incoming calls only.

I became quite adept at "tapping out" phone numbers. As you mention, the rotary is simply breaking the connection as it turns back and we found we could mimic this by tapping the buttons under the handset. The hard numbers, of course, were the ones with a lot of nines or zeroes in them (you had to tap 10 times for a zero). The tapping had to be quick and rhythmic. I became the "go to" guy for people wanting to place a call.

I remember doing that. Of course, my small home town had its own independent phone company and we only had to dial four numbers to make a call, so it was much easier.