Autosave is for wimps

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Blow the fluff from my crack, tickle my balls and other mouse-cleaning tips
Doug Engelbart’s fnar, fnar legacy
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Double-click? Oh don’t be so conventional
We pity the fool who can't use our innovative interface
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A lazy fortune-teller’s guide to registering with the French tax office
Just put the beers down and step back slowly
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You hired me and forgot about it. That’s MY fault is it? Of course it is
Just install the trial software on 1,000 PCs and I’ll be on my way
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June 2024

Fetch my keys will you? They’re in the fridge
And may I have my arms back, please?
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Switched-off voice assistant blurts out nonsense while I watch TV
You can take “being a good listener” too far, you know
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My door is so smart it keeps out the riff-raff (such as me)
Don’t knock it
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Enough sleep monitors! Let’s have some useful tech wearables for a change
I want to hail a lift while picking my nose
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May 2024

Innovation, permission and Sam Altman's groceries: all up for grabs, apparently
If only there was some sort of machine I could use to calculate it all
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Where, oh where, to implant my employee microchip?
Swipe to open the toilet door – and swipe again
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How dare they ban China's TikTok?! That's the kind of thing they'd do in, er, China
Singing in the pain
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Look, pal, it’s YOUR password so it’s YOUR responsibility (even if WE lost it)
Security begins at home... and ends up in someone else’s
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