Vidya games. Various activities involving interfacing with AS/400s and other things. Various spreadsheet works. Business side applications.
I’ve never had a need to turn it ON on a laptop.
Same here for most of them. I’m sitting next to my microwave right now, and I can understand why they have the ‘vegetable, fish, pizza, soup,’ etc selections because they’re positioned right above the numbers, and I imagine some people just use the numbers.
I have only ever used the ‘start’ button. Press once for 30 seconds, twice for 60 seconds, etc.
OH! Is that what it’s for? It plays music for a while and then stops? I’ve only ever hit it by accident and never known what it’s actually for. But then, I have used a mobile phone as my alarm for about 13 years now.
For a story about holes in motor vehicle construction apparatus, this was actually quite good. Um, that was not meant to be snarky - I would feel the same way if I ever found out what the random extra holes on many flatpack furniture items were actually there for.
I’ve not only never found a use for it, but it’s what I came in to nominate. On many of my wireless keyboards, there’s a numberpad on the touchpad next to the regular keypad, and there’s a button that switches the regular keypad off so you can use the mousepad as a numberpad. There is also, however, a numlock key, which disables the entire keyboard, except for a few letter keys which become numbers. You can’t use the mousepad then.
It’s right next to the delete key, meaning you hit it by accident often. And it comes on automatically at start-up. My computer refuses all attempts to switch off the ‘numlock at start-up’ default (believe me, I’ve searched all the websites anyone might suggest with solutions to this) so you have to switch the numlock off every time.
This wouldn’t be so bad except that, every so often, the numlock gets stuck to
‘on.’ Ta-da! No computer for you!
It’s not just this computer or keyboard, though - I’ve never seen a use for a numlock key on any keyboard which already has a separate numberpad.
Just saw this, and I used it all the time on M-16s and M-16A1s back in the '90s. The bolt tended to jam up a lot and not seat well, especially when it was a little gunked up after lots of firing. (Happened a lot with blanks. They’re really messy.) Can’t remember if the A2s had problems, but the M4 had some slight fixes on it, so it never jammed.
Wrong. You do not want to be in lower gears when you have less traction. Lower gears means higher torque, which means a higher chance for skids. You want to be in a higher gear in those situations. In an automatic, that usually means doing nothing.
I realize that most sources suggest lower gears in adverse conditions, but I believe that’s in an effort to encourage folks to slow down overall.
Well if lower gears = 2nd instead of OD, You may be saying the same thing.
Which reminds me – that little “overdrive” button on my gear shifter. I have no idea what it’s for.
I got my wife an iPad for Christmas and threw some songs on it that I knew she’d like that I had handy. I don’t think she’s ever listened to them, though her music listening mostly comes from the radio. I haven’t listened to any of the songs either.
What I find completely useless is the self destruct button on my doomsday device. It’s just sitting there all shiny and candy-like, just daring someone to come over and push it. Why this thing was built with this button is beyond me.
You can take the vehicle out of OD when going down long hills. It’ll drop to a lower gear and help you slow down.
not regularly but occasionally. it is an important safety feature that is good to know it still works.