Hidden Secrets & Easter Eggs
Real hidden features, easter eggs and little-known tech history.
Type about:robots into Firefoxs address bar. you get a page addressed to robots, with lines referencing classic science fiction, including a nod to teh film The Day the Earth Stood Still and the famous robot laws. theres even a button that says "Try Again"…
found the World 1 3 warp whistle in Mario 3 today and its genuinely clever. steps: 1. Reach teh white block near the end of World 1 3. 2. crouch (hold down) on it for a few seconds. 3. mario falls behind teh background layer. 4. Run to the right past teh end…
ok so hidden iOS feature: Background Sounds. 1... settings Accessibility Audio & Visual. 2. tap Background Sounds. 3. turn it on and pick a sound. tip: add the Hearing control to Control Center (Settings Control Center) so u can toggle Background Sounds…
i was troubleshooting a site that woludnt load after a DNS change, and someone told me to visit chrome://net internals/ dns and click "Clear host cache" 😤 Worked instantly. That made me curious, so I typed chrome://chrome urls and got a list of every…
hmmmm ok if your laptop mostly stays on the charger, check for a charge limit: 1. Look in the manufacturers utility app (Vantage, MyASUS, Dell Power Manager/Optimizer, HPs BIOS options, etc.). 2. Or check the BIOS under power or battery settings. 3... pick a…
guys pls help i type git status about a hundred times a day :) Then i learned Git supports aliases. One command: git config global alias.st status now git st works. my favorite is a pretty log: git config global alias.lg "log oneline graph decorate all".…
ugh. old school admins used wmic for hardware queries. Microsoft deprecated it, and on Windows 11 24H2 it's an optional feature that's disabled by default. The replacement is PowerShell's CIM cmdlets. Examples i use now: Get CimInstance Win32 Processor…
hmmmm ok i finally did the Reptile fight in the original Mortal Kombat on a home version that emulates the arcade game. the conditions: The Pit stage, a shadow flying across the moon, double flawless victory, no blocking at all, and a fatality at the end.…
ok so im on Windows 11 and just found that Win+ 😅 isnt only emoji. it has tabs for GIFs, kaomoji (teh Japanese text faces), symbols and teh clipboard history. So instead of hunting for the "¯\ (ツ) /¯" shrug online i just open teh kaoomji tab. The symbols…
help!! i found Roku's secret screen today. home 5 times, Fast Forward 3 times, Rewind 2 times. it shows device info and some advanced options. i only looked at the info and backed out. its a fun peek behind the curtain, but its meant for diagnostics. If ure…
im literally losing my mind here a coworker told me to run telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl and I didnt believe what happened. A version of Star Wars: A New Hope started playing as ASCII art animation right in my terminal. Its a fan project thats been aronud…
Castlevania: Symphony of teh Night (PS1, 1997) has a hidden mode. after youve cleared the game once (your meomry card needs a clear save), start a new game and enter RICHTER as ur name. youll play as Richter Belmont instead of Alucard, with whip attacks and…
my phone felt slow sooo i almost bought a new one. A friend told me to change teh animation scales in Developer options instead. three sliders: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale, default is 1x. I set them all to…
help!! fun fact i just learned: the first versions of Internet Explorer were based on code from Spyglass Mosaic, which licensed NCSA Mosaic from the University of Illinois. the About screen in early IE said sooo. Mosaic wasnt the very first browser, but it…
long time lurker first post lol found the coolest built in Windows tool. powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\temp\battery.html" writes a detailed battery report wherever you like. it has reecnt usage, battery drain over the last few days, and a life estimate…
ugh. today i finally went to Whimsyshire in Diablo III. Its a secret level you open by crafting teh Staff of Herding, which needs a plan plus several unusual ingredients collected around the game. Then you use the staff in Act 1 to open a portal. The level…
im literally losing my mind here git rescue in steps: 1. Don't panic, and don't run git gc. 2, run git reflog to see recent HEAD positions. 3, find teh entry from before teh mistake (reset, rebase, checkout). 4. Create a branch there: git branch rescue <hash…
for years I hit C and retyped the whole number every time I made a typo in teh iPhone Calculator 😤 turns out theres a hidden backspace. swipe left or right across the number display at teh top. each swipe deletes teh last digit you typed... thats it.. lol…
Closing my last tab kept closing the whole Firefox window, which drove me nuts. Someone said: type about:config in the address bar, accept teh "Proceed with Caution" warning, search for browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab and set it to false... now closing…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts heres how it works for anyone who missed it like me: 1. press Win+V. 2... click "Turn on" if it's disabled (or go to Settings System Clipboard). 3. Copy a few things. 4. press Win+V again and click the one you want to…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts childhood mystrey solved: why did teh duck sometimes fly like it was taunting me? Because my cousin had a second controller. Duck Hunt on the NES lets player 2 steer the duck in Game A. You don't need any code, just plug…
samsung hidden test menu: 1. Open Phone app. 2. Type 0 . 3. choose a test, like Red, Green, Blue for screen checks, Touch for touchscreen, Sensor for proximity and other sensors. To leave a test, press back. Some tests require pressing back twice. It's very…
ok weird one i was watching a movie where the subtitles were a second late and almost gave up. Then I learned VLC has hotkeys for this: G and H shift subtitle timing, J and K shift audio timing. A small message shows the delay on screen. Fixed it in five…
so annoyed rn i just learned that !! in bash means "previous command", so sudo !! reruns teh last command as root, i also found Alt+... which pastes the last argument of teh previous command where my cursor is... press it repeatedly to go back through…
