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by gilnaa 2996 days ago
Well, due to a bug in a specific version of vi, holding the space-bar for a few seconds causes the laptop to overheat. I bought an external thermometer that connects via USB, and I have a daemon that monitors it to notice the overheating and send the ESC key to the application.
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Look. I thought it was funny too, but at least put a link so you're not just stealing the joke.

https://xkcd.com/1172/