"humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

From	rhkramer@gmail.com
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	"humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)
Date	2020-11-21 13:10 +0100
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Hey, I've got a bug in my computer monitor -- I wonder if I'm the first 
(probably not ;-).

I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my 
screen for the last 3 days.  (There must be a (probably very thin) hollow 
space between the backlight and the LCD (? or whatever) layer that actually 
displays the characters).)

I was hoping that I could crush it by pressing (reasonably gently) on the 
somewhat flexible front protective layer of the screen, but apparently not -- I 
guess I'll just have to wait him/her out -- I hope it is not a (mating) pair. 
;-)

Oh, in case someone thinks it is a computer virus, I'm about 99.99+% sure it 
is not -- the monitor runs from 3 different computers (via a KVM switch) and 
the gnat appears on all 3 and in the same position (probably with a slight 
delta to account for crawling during the KVM switching time).

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"humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 13:10 +0100
  Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 13:40 +0100
  Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computermonitor) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-11-21 15:40 +0100
  Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer  monitor) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-21 16:10 +0100
  Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-11-21 16:20 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 20:00 +0100
  Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer  monitor) Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2020-11-22 12:40 +0100

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