Modern Magic

Magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. This hardly surprises anyone, as it is expected of him. Nowadays it takes a lot of effort to impress an audience. And yet, one trick still leaves everyone dumbfounded.?

Turn off your laptop, close the lid and put it in the bag. Walk around a bit. Take out the laptop, open the lid and turn it on. Repeat this 1000 times. When the screen says [disk drive is missing],?know that you finally succeeded! Buy a new disk and restore the vanished data from the backups. You have backups, right??

Unfortunately code monkey Bubbles didn't have a backup. 'I have lost a week's work,' said the novice.

'That's hardly a loss,' grinned master Soo.

'I know, but there was a key to the cryptocurrency account on the drive too,' shrugged Bubbles.

Baboon rolled his eyes. 'Are you certain it cannot be restored?'

'Recovery experts only managed to bring back my lady's photos.'

'Go to Safira's office and beg her to give you your data. She will insist she has no clue what you're talking about. Just tell her you know about the Eye of The Boss, the employee monitoring software,' explained Soo.

Novice hesitated for a moment but finally ran off. Modern magic does wonders, thought the master and went to buy popcorn.

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