Won't affect PCs with SSD only or eReaders or tablets.
Very few HDDS are vulnerable and even the vulnerable ones may be OK.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/...ashes_laptops/
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"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 RPM laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used," Chen wrote.
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It probably also needs to be loud.
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Sometimes playing the video on one laptop would crash another nearby laptop.
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Usually decent 512 Gbyte laptop drives are 7200 RPM. My survey and tests show that many 1G and larger laptop HDDs don't have speed marked on them, possibly because all of those are 5400 RPM.
Likely the vulnerable drives were very cheap 80G Byte (or less) as it was XP era (so before 2007 and after 2001)
Also you'd need external speakers or unusual laptop speakers.