Fuckin magnets man

    • @tpihkal
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      314 months ago

      Literally no one knows.

    • chingadera
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      64 months ago

      Holy shit this picture is awesome

  • @[email protected]
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    524 months ago

    Man, I was working a desktop support job when they first started to use magnets in the laptops for the closed lid mechanism. I was trying to set up a laptop and I for the life of me couldn’t get the screen to turn on.

    After like an hour of trying to figure it out and a call to Dell support, I shifted the laptop and the screen turned on. Stupid laptop was so thin the magnet from the laptop under it was causing it to think it was closed.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      114 months ago

      A couple of years ago I was having a problem with the screen on my laptop randomly turning off and I was afraid that it was broken. Turns out it was my magnetic watch strap tripping the “lid closed” sensor.

    • @cm0002
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      84 months ago

      I just found out the other day that the New 3DS XLs screen open sensor can be tricked by a laptop lid magnet, I was confused AF for a sec on why it was making sounds while closed lol

    • @Feathercrown
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      4 months ago

      Chromebooks regularly do this if you stack them

  • @hperrin
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    434 months ago

    Are you sure it’s magnets? Have you ruled out magic?

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        Nope, not that close to the edge, and especially not in this laptop cuz it must have them firing down. It’s the hall effect sensor of the lid.

  • @nebulaone
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    4 months ago

    OP discovers magnetism.

    Edit: nvm it says so in the post.

    • @TootSweet
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      144 months ago

      I mean, it’s still a very unlikely way to land. Even if it hit very close to directly upright, you’d think it’d be much more likely that it’d fall flat against the surface of the laptop. But not as unlikelycompletely impossible as if there wasn’t a magnet right there.

      • @nebulaone
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        94 months ago

        True, don’t take my comment too seriously, it was meant as a joke.