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Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by MengerSponge on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:45AM (#28008531)
Glass is weird. Improperly annealed glass can spontaneously break due to little more than atmospheric oxygen and water. Its breaking stress is a function of time, but on a human timescale: seconds to days!

Check out the lower figure on page 9: https://glassproperties.com/references/MechPropHandouts.pdf

Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by caf on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:55AM (#28008655)
A sliding glass door in the foyer of an office I worked in once just spontaneously turned itself into a pile of glass granules one day. I'm led to believe it's not a particularly infrequent occurrence.
Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by Arrath on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:14AM (#28008884)
I'll never get a glass top table after a friend's coffee table did the same. Yeah it was likely chipped or damaged or abused by years of coasters and glasses and controllers and books dropped on it, but one day we were minding our own business in the kitchen when we heard an unholy crash, come to find the tabletop in shards on the living room floor.
Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by castlecrasher2 on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:11AM (#28008857)
there's a YouTube video of someone making uranium glass that had this exact issue come up. Very interesting to see in practice
Re:M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No A... by cyounkins on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:57AM (#28009351)
I think it was mostly during the cooling when the internal stresses are relaxing. NileRed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGw6fXprV9U