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Re:Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? by lloeki on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:53PM (#44501788)
> The vibrational force of standing up was enough to short out a failing power supply

Or, was it?

https://superuser.com/questions/1406140/monitor-screen-that-...

(not disclaiming that it wasn't, but that "chair piston causes EM surge" had me driven crazy for the longest time til I was able to pinpoint the cause)

Re:Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? by duped on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @03:07PM (#44503010)
I saw this in an office while working on an embedded project where our dev boards had no EM shielding.

Standing up from the chair was enough to cause it to crash.