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Wow, I can't believe this. I have a Markus Ikea chair and a dual screen setup with a USB c hub connecting them all. The screen likes to turn off all of the time and it drives me nuts. A good smack quickly fixes it. I never considered the chair. Mind blown with static discharge.
After some trial and error I determined the motor likely produces enough interference to trigger the RGBs to turn on. I ended up just cutting the RGB cables because I didn't use them anyway, as I didn't have anything to shield the keyboard (or anything else for that matter) from the motor.
I 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…
We had an interference problem at work once, in a VME rack, an I/O board with a particularly large coil was messing with the CPU board, solved by moving the offending board in another slot. The effect was mostly random crashes and reboot though, nothing fancy like a keyboard layout change.
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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...
I invested in a frame.work laptop. If I ever purchase a new mainboard, I'll get this cooler for my old mainboard and use it as a server or mount it to a TV: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mainboard-case/fr...
Lately, 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!
Had a similar issue with a previous standing desk: turning the motor on to adjust the height of the desk would turn on the RGBs on my keyboard (which uses a skeleton-like structure, so you can see the wires), though not always. After some trial and error I determined the motor likely produces enough interference to trigger the RGBs to turn on. I ended up just cutting the RGB cables because I didn't use them anyway, a…
Solved by adding a "tail" to my chair using a piece of old speaker cable. There is a metal part on the bottom of the chair that the tail can be attached to.
I 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…
This is the greatest thing I've read today. I love when software and the real world have entirely unexpected interactions. And by love, I usually mean hate, especially when I'm the one that has to debug them.
Turned out to be an overheating issue. The chocolate ice cream was at the back of the store while the vanilla ice cream was at the front, effectively changing how much time the car had to cool down properly before attempting to start it again.
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my favorite story on this is a town in north east usa changed it's traffic lights from energy wasting old fashion lights to new fancy low energy lights. The unexpected result: in winter time these lights did not melt the snow away and the lights were opaque with white snow.
Technology Connections did an episode on this kind of stuff. GE just installs heaters in their streetlights now.