Guarantee it’ll be called FloorPlanFinalCopy2.ppt and will be for the company’s previous office.

Every bad connection in the year 3453 still sounds like analogue static. Every dodgy video connection from a FTL spaceship gets VHS tracking lines as it breaks down.

Aliens connect their nanoprobes to your the main character’s PC and download the Internet so they can judge humanity.

Even if they had magic tech to do this, they’re still constrained by the MC’s shitty 10Mbit DSL. Somehow they can download everything humanity has ever done in 5 seconds, and all while pictures of it are showing up on the monitor for no good reason.

Replace “nobody” with “nobody who contributes to society; nobody I gave a shit about in the first place” and you’re on track.

You could definitely kill a villain with my laptop, if you fired it with sufficient force from a cannon.

I’d be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return “nope” or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it’s serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.

Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you’re using dd backwards and as root, you can’t do anything bad, and even then it’s the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you “destroy”.