Old tech is haunted
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Old tech is haunted
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#2Spectre-infested computer, you say? Yes, thanks to CPU manufacturers.
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#3I have a haunted TV: my 4 year old Sony Bravia (Android TV) reboots seemingly intentionally during the most interesting parts of TV broadcasts. And since a few weeks ago, it also regularly loses the Wi-Fi connection. Thanks Google and Sony!
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#4Spectre-infested computer, you say? Yes, thanks to CPU manufacturers.
Why haven't Spectre et al been used as vectors to jailbreak old hardware yet? I get the impression they're not that practical of vectors and we freaked out and hobbled our cpu performance with patches for nothing.
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#5I have a haunted TV: my 4 year old Sony Bravia (Android TV) reboots seemingly intentionally during the most interesting parts of TV broadcasts. And since a few weeks ago, it also regularly loses the Wi-Fi connection. Thanks Google and Sony!
I had a bad experience with the last (and final) cheap Android TV I got (Philips, really a rebranded FUNAI according to the Netflix device ID) - would take minutes to boot, often not power on unless unplugged, and would get slower and slower the longer it was on. Guess it was haunted as well. I left it in the house I sold.
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#6I have a haunted TV: my 4 year old Sony Bravia (Android TV) reboots seemingly intentionally during the most interesting parts of TV broadcasts. And since a few weeks ago, it also regularly loses the Wi-Fi connection. Thanks Google and Sony!
Ah, a classic case of haunted tech. My version is my electric bike that decides it wants to turn the power on and off as it pleases.
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#8I have a haunted TV: my 4 year old Sony Bravia (Android TV) reboots seemingly intentionally during the most interesting parts of TV broadcasts. And since a few weeks ago, it also regularly loses the Wi-Fi connection. Thanks Google and Sony!
Usually the culprit is aged electrolytic capacitors.
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#9I can attest to this; we have a vacuum cleaning robot that has recently taken to spontaneous vacuuming at random times - the first time was naturally just after midnight and scared the life out of me :-)
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#10Related: Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum