What do geeks like

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It may be convenient to give yourself a simple password that's composed of nothing more than the name of your favorite football team or "abcde," but geeks know how easy that is for hackers to crack. Even the least security-conscious geek will use a few odd characters like the sign instead of e or the!

You wouldn't leave your front door unlocked with a pile of cash visible through your first floor windows. By the same token, geeks never leave their routers unsecured. We wouldn't even use WEP encryption, because that's not much better than having no protection at all. Opt for WPA2 encryption. To geeks, the inside of one's computer is sacrosanct.

We'd rather let a candy striper cut out our spleens than pay some knit-shirted tech jockey touch our motherboards. We'll do it ourselves, thank you very much. Backlit keyboards are for wussies. Geeks spend so much time typing that we know the keys on our keyboards better than the back of our hands. We can easily bang out 80 to words per minute on the Das Keyboard, which doesn't even have labels on its keys so we have no problem typing in a dark room.

We might be amused by the colorful keyboard backlights on gaming notebooks like the Alienware M18x or MSI GT60, but make no mistake, we don't need light to type. The best of us can type on two keyboards at once while blindfolded. Laptop Mag. Call Tech Support. Use a Screen Saver. Fiction Books.

Board Games. Chess, Go, Shogi, Checkers Pen-and-paper Role-playing Games. Comic Books. Watching Movies. Binge-watching TV Shows. Trading Card Games. Puzzle Games. Collecting Stuff. Non-fiction Books. Kyle Hanson added Astronomy. Model Building. Live Action Role-playing Games. TonyBarnes added Star Trek. Fixing Computers. Making Lists. Laser Tag. Playing a Musical Instrument.