Could be low system entropy while generating a hash or key and the mouse input is helping it.
There was some program that was asking you to move the mouse while it was generating a seed or something, but I don't remember which one.
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Could be low system entropy while generating a hash or key and the mouse input is helping it.
There was some program that was asking you to move the mouse while it was generating a seed or something, but I don't remember which one.
It's GPG that you're probably thinking of:

Yes I guess so.
In that guy's defense, you as a user have EVERY right to be pissed if your machine thrashes so badly that your system stops responding in an era of 32 Gb of RAM and 8 core CPUs.
We had a mainframe that, because user IO was a higher priority than background jobs, would slowdown the server by a user treating the F5 button like he was in a competition playing Track and Field in the televised 100m dash event while waiting for work to populate. That system was well over 32gb of ram with many more than 8 cores.
We had to talk to him.
Especially if the OS or the program just says "fuck you! Wait until it solves itself or get fucked" instead of "the problem is XYZ"
sometimes you can fix stuff by punching it.
Sounds like loading screen advice in a video game
We used to call it percussive therapy.
In tech support we called the mouse the "math coprocessor", and any interactions with it sped up all computation.
Relatable
Last Windows 11 update got stuck. Really stuck. Killed it with the off switch, it rebooted into the logo screen and did nothing else. I waved my ventoy USB at it and threatened to give it the Linux treatment and went to sleep. This morning it booted as if nothing had happened?