• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    All the damn time. I typically use Linux, so having a process I can’t even force kill is a severely annoying concept.

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      4 days ago

      This has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.

      It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable. The SIGKILLs simply piled up never to be delivered.

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        THIS is your big “You won’t believe what happened to me…” story???

        sigh

        When I was 14, I took the power cord for the original PS1 and shaved the rubber off the end until metal prongs were sticking out. Then I noticed if the outlet end was plugged in, and you touched the metal prongs on the other end, you couldn’t drop it. It would electricute you, but it would also stick to your skin for 5-10 seconds as it electricuted you.

        So being a 14 year old male, I did the only logical thing. I put it on my penis.

        It was quite shocking!