i was reading iWoz, the autobiography of steve wozniak. and he was sharing his experiences of pranking people with a TV jammer he made: him using it to jam TVs while people were watching sports. he’d make them do all sorts of crazy stuff, like making them believe whacking the TV would make it work. and sometimes he’d jam the TVs and people would gather to fix the TV and when some guy places his hand in front of the TV, he would unjam it and the TV would work. he made them so sueprstitious, it was so funny.

and then i remembered i too had pranked people when i was in college.

well, i am no genius like steve wozniak, and my pranks only worked because the professors used my laptop for presentations and stuff. the laptops my college gave out were old bulky laptops with windows 7 on it. (maybe it would have worked better with linux mint on it, but anyway.) and the DVI input would rarely work with the projector, idk if its the laptop’s fault.

so once, sir was showing us some presentation and teaching us. and the girls were, you know, writing every single point down as fast as they can. us boys in the back bench used to sleep or talk or draw or have food or whatever. but this day, i had an idea.

i had my phone with me. (we were not allowed to carry our phones into the classroom, but anyway.) and i had KDE connect installed on both my laptop and my phone.

so, sir was currently on slide 3, and all the girls were looking up and down and writing stuff down. via phone, i changed it to slide 4. well, sir was facing us, he didn’t know what happened.

all the girls were like “sir, sir, please change the slide back, we haven’t finished writing.” and sir was like “bruh” lmao. everyone thought it’s some one-time error. sir walked to the laptop and changed it back.

after a few minutes, i did it again.

and once more. by then, both the sir and the girls have started to feel the sus in the air. i mean, some girls saw the slide just change in front of their eyes, and there was nobody beside the laptop.

after the class, i was talking to this girl called aparna, and i asked her about the incident, and she was like, damn, yeah, that happened. apparently, the girls started thinking it was some ghost activity.

lmao.

another day, a friend of mine was conducting a presentation using, again, my laptop. and this time using kde connect, i slowly move the cursor. and the girls were like, “why is the cursor moving on its own?”. damn, man, i was trying so hard not to laugh.

fun times.