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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by morganvachon on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:34PM (#16972740)
> You can generally diagnose those olfactorily as well as visually. :)

Indeed, my electronics engineering mentor described it as "letting the magic smoke escape". Once the smoke is gone, so is the magic.

Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by lathiat on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:07AM (#16975174)
Now if only you could capture the smoke and get it back inside the chip.

It would work again!