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What's a good way to prank your coworker? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by abbadon420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I got pranked with this website: https://updatefaker.com/

I recently switched from manual labor to office labour and learned the hard way to lock my screen :)

In hindsight it was hilarious, but I waited for maybe 20 minutes before I got suspicious. How can I take revenge?

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[–] everett@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here's one I started planning but never got around to actually pulling off. My team had recently moved from Windows to Mac, had a habit of leaving for lunch at the same time and for some reason never, ever locked their screens.

The prank would go like this: I'd grab a copy of a classic Mac emulator, a System 7 disk image and copies of all the Adobe apps circa 1980-whatever, so that they would come back from lunch one day to find all their beefy new Macbook Pros "downgraded" to looking like this, complete with working Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

I deeply regret not doing this.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !minivmac@www.gryphel.com

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@rikudou@lemmings.world Looks like the URL structure of the site fooled your bot. Maybe an edge case to ignore, but do you think it's worth confirming that the link points to a Lemmy instance?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fixed now, thanks for the report!