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Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
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#82Oh hell no! I've been annoyed at my screens for about a decade! Now I understand! It's my Markus chair!
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#83Sh*, me too! Moving my chair or standing up / sitting down ("SIHOO", a chinese brand) makes my PHILIPS 278E monitor black for two seconds too!! Even not touching the table.
And only when I'm using HDMI port with a HDMI 3x1 switch. If using the DP port, it seems no such issues.
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#84Remotely 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.
That's a fun bug report to receive and having to debug: Customer complains about display screaming when viewing last quarter report.
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#85I have this exact chair and I've spent the past three months thinking the cheapo wired mouse I bought I was leaking voltage, or that I had a FUBAR HDMI cable. I cannot tell you how much of a balm this is for my sanity.
same here - didn't realize it was the chair! Too lazy to have tried debugging it.
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#86A while ago I had one of those Ikea Flintan chairs, and after reading this post I recalled that from time to time I had a monitor+laptop flinch hard for no reason at all. I was concerned one of them was experiencing problems but other than these events they both worked flawlessly. I wonder if the chair was not the root cause.
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#88An 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 n…
> It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets
I honestly think that there's a hidden potential with instrumenting programs with different noises, and being able to listen to them could give you a broad understanding of program behavior without needing to profile or watch logs.
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#89There is an old EEVblog[1] video on the topic. Mine doesn't do it from chairs, but it regularly blacks out if I turn on the nearby LED strip.
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#90One of my first jobs 30+ years ago was ESD testing automotive and consumer electronics. I would spend a week with a discharge gun methodically running different discharge energies and waveforms both directly onto the devices as well as onto radiators at various distances from the device under test, as well as any cabling/harnessing that attached to the device. Then the design team would figure out the reason for any…
Cars are a terrible ESD and EMC environment and safety critical at the same time. Computer equipment usually does pretty well, especially after installation (when there's good ground path everywhere and it's in a chassis). Between ferrite beads and TVS, there's a pretty good amount of protection, and I've seen pretty few ESD anomalies-- a reset or two when touching connectors long ago is about the extent of it. RFI a…
As a kid, someone gave me a toy keyboard. Checking Google, it looks nearly identical to a Casio PT-1, but was probably a clone or slightly different model.
9 year-old me was delighted to discover that it would start playing on its own when it was near the plasma globe I had bought at a science museum gift shop. I couldn't explain it, but eventually came to a vague understanding.
It was semi-random, mashing together short, distorted sequences from the song bank stored in memory. Being almost recognizable made it more haunting.
I remember bringing this out one night during a sleepover and we all got kind of spooked. Fun times!