I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old

@0xabad1dea I’m “dreaming of affording that three thousand dollar five meg hard drive for my computer” years old.

@0xabad1dea I remember the visceral horror I felt seeing a younger colleague use magnets to attach notes to the side of their PC.

@0xabad1dea When I got a laptop with a SSD I turned it on and shook the heck out of it to get myself over that.

@0xabad1dea See also: carrying it around while it's powered on

@0xabad1dea Buying a laptop with an ssd inside was freeing... after a while. After a couple of *crash* "shit shit shit, no wait it's an ssd"-s.

@0xabad1dea I have caught myself freaking out about getting a magnet too close to a tablet, when the tablet's cover latched with the magnets *built into the device*.

@lunarloony @0xabad1dea

... turning the PC off without first parking the heads

@0xabad1dea I've finally come around in this and have realized that the flat steel sides of a computer case are a great place to display fridge magnets.

Especially if you have a fridge with a stainless finish that magnets don't stick to.

@0xabad1dea Speaking of magnets and computers, there's actually still a risk!

A couple months ago I gave my nibling an old but still very good laptop as a massive upgrade to their computer I gave them over 10 years ago. As I was showing them how to use it, they passed their phone over it incidentally and it went to sleep. It seemed random.

"Are there magnets in your phone?"

"My case does."

"Ah, you must have passed it near the lid close sensor and put it to sleep."

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And now we can *charge* our pocket-sized supercomputers with magnets.

@lerxst @0xabad1dea happy times are here again

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@gudenau @0xabad1dea When I got my first SSD I put it in my Laptop and did that, only to discover that my Laptop has hardware on the motherboard that parks the drive when it detects rapidly changing G-Forces.

Which is great if you have a mechanical hard drive, but this SSD did not gracefully recover from rapidfire park commands.

@0xabad1dea what is it like to miss out on being "marble blast gold on the school computer" years old

@0xabad1dea Just reminded me I used to manually degauss the family CRT with a magnet from some science kit

@0xabad1dea I am “sync; sync; sync; shutdown” years old.

@ryan
Magnets and CRTs, name a more iconic duo
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Lol, when I was at school in the Late 80's we had lots of BBC Micro's on a network that was connected to a 10mb Hard Drive.
It had its own special room (Big Cupboard) and absolutely no one was allowed physical access to it other than the two specific computer studies teachers who were also maths teachers. We were given dire warning and threats of expulsion from school if anyone ever went near it.

@krutonium @0xabad1dea isn't it the hard drive that's supposed to do that?

@darthnull @0xabad1dea wait, wasn't the idea specifically that you should type each sync manually, because the delay of a human typing in the additional syncs is what let the first sync finish??

@gudenau @0xabad1dea IIRC not all of them do? And HP was being proactive, which I do appreciate.

I later ended up figuring out how to read the values from it and made my Screen rotate using the gyro.