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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by darekkay on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:01AM (#22159236)
This reminds me of a similar issue I've experienced. A colleague always put his jacket onto his chair. Almost every time he took it off, his monitor connection broke for a few seconds. This mystery was never fully solved, but our best guess was some static (from the jacket-chair-friction) causing issues with his VGA-HDMI adapter.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by mrkstu on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#22163951)
I have this occasionally from my MacBook Pro to external 4k. My office seems to be conducive to generating static and I'll occasionally shock my MacBook when first sitting down, temporarily fritz-ing the connection to the monitor.
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