Its annoyingly dry in my apartment usually and have had this happen with a different chair. My solution was to connect some alligator clips from a ground pin on my UPS to a metal bar under the top of my desk and hold that as I rolled my chair in to immediately bypass to ground. Didn't like zapping it through my monitor or other desk things first.
Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
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#42Lately, I’ve become a fan of analog chairs. No Wi-Fi, no camera, no GPU. Besides the retro appeal, I actually find myself to be more creative!
That's just bad discipline on your part. Just because the options are there doesn't mean you have to constantly look at your chair every five minutes.
My company is building a chair that doesn't compromise on features for when you need them, but elegantly hides them away when not in use so you won't be tempted every second of the day. We have room in our A round if you're interested.
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#43Remotely related, my screen makes a noise, somewhere between static and a whine, while displaying certain text files. Minimizing or closing the editor stops the noise, getting the text back on display restores the noise. I suppose it's some sort of resonance phenomenon.
sometimes when manipulating 3D CAD models, I can get a similar noise from my graphics card / monitor at certain orientations of the model sweeping back and forth as I rotate it
I have a feeling that grey #A5A5A5 is row-hammering something
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#44I once had the problem that running make with too many parallel jobs (-j) would change my keyboard layout. The machine was some laptop mainboard glued to the backside of my monitor, and the USB socket came out at the top of the mainboard. On its way down, the USB cable for the keyboard passed across the whole mainboard. On high load, the mainboard created enough interference to cause the connection to reset, re-hotpl…
I currently have an RPi4 mounted to the back of my TV for easy Kodi streaming, but I never considered using the business end of a laptop. I'm sure I have a decade old laptop with a broken screen sitting at the bottom of a shelf somewhere...
Re: Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
#45Remotely related, my screen makes a noise, somewhere between static and a whine, while displaying certain text files. Minimizing or closing the editor stops the noise, getting the text back on display restores the noise. I suppose it's some sort of resonance phenomenon.
Similar story, my computer makes a small whine when I move the mouse cursor. Not the screen or speakers, the actual PC. With both wired and wireless mice.
Re: Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
#46I once had the problem that running make with too many parallel jobs (-j) would change my keyboard layout. The machine was some laptop mainboard glued to the backside of my monitor, and the USB socket came out at the top of the mainboard. On its way down, the USB cable for the keyboard passed across the whole mainboard. On high load, the mainboard created enough interference to cause the connection to reset, re-hotpl…
I want my CPU-load locale switcher back.
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#47An electric lighter does this to my mouse when I zap specific objects with it, such as a screwdriver. I tried distances up to about 1.5 meters away from the mouse. The only reason I initially noticed is because I saw the red light turn off that was coming faintly through the holes I drilled in the top to let a heating element that I had built in heat my hand better. (Spoiler: the holes didn't do anything, but I did notice that 5W below an exposed extremity go a long way when given 30+ minutes!)
I also enjoyed the two random occasions where I shot lightning from my hands through the plastic cover of a keyboard and got the electronics into some error state, requiring it to be replugged before it would work again. It was a... power...ful feeling.
This and screaming routers are some of my favorite oddities. An old cisco router that was sitting next to my desk would occasionally "scream" at me. I couldn't describe it any other way, though it was rather faint and you wouldn't hear it with music on. It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets. Could be reproduced with some ping command (I would say with sudo and either a low -i or even -f, but I was a Windows user back then and forgot the relevant flags, or maybe I used hping3.)
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#48This is nothing new, I solved this and a bunch of other things by wearing a tinfoil hat.
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#49I have another version of this problem. Almost every time I get out of my chair, my Schiit Modi DAC disappears for a moment and my music stops, then starts again a few seconds later as the DAC comes back online. I spent a fair amount of effort trying to figure that one out. Thought it was loose cables, something, but no. I don't have a Markus chair, but my Steelcase Gesture is still capable of making a pretty good am…
I have an HP OMEN laptop, W11 and RTX and a 165hz refresh rate.
When I plug the machine in, the audio will get all static-y from the built in speakers. It seems to especially happen when I am moving my mouse over a video thats playing - and the playback of videos stutters when pulling the cord in or out of the machine.
Battery life on this machine sucks though... but other than that, its fantastic...
Re: Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
#50I once had the problem that running make with too many parallel jobs (-j) would change my keyboard layout. The machine was some laptop mainboard glued to the backside of my monitor, and the USB socket came out at the top of the mainboard. On its way down, the USB cable for the keyboard passed across the whole mainboard. On high load, the mainboard created enough interference to cause the connection to reset, re-hotpl…