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Old 06-15-2021, 12:46 PM   #16
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I have an after-market cover for the Kobo Clara that causes rapid battery drain. Remove the cover, and the problem stops. The cover uses several magnets, including one that holds a kick stand closed on the back.

I cannot prove that a poorly placed magnet was interfering with the Clara's auto-sleep function. But I can't think of another explanation, either.
Hmm! I wonder if it was intermittently engaging sleep, so it was constantly going to sleep and waking up again? That would certainly use rather a lot of power
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Old 06-15-2021, 03:38 PM   #17
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Going back a few years, one company I did some IT work for had a issue with one of the staff losing their backup file copies. When I dropped by, he showed me the backup on two 5.25" floppy disks—carefully stuck to the side of a file cabinet with a magnet.

I suspect most IT types from that era would have a similar story.
I went to fix a computer and they were asked if they tried different sockets and they said they had. Turned out the powerstrip was defective.

And the worst type of computer to ever work on was one where the user smoked and probable others in the office did as well. That is seriously disgusting.
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Old 06-15-2021, 09:56 PM   #18
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I went to fix a computer and they were asked if they tried different sockets and they said they had. Turned out the powerstrip was defective.

And the worst type of computer to ever work on was one where the user smoked and probable others in the office did as well. That is seriously disgusting.
One time I ran into a situation where an office computer would not power on. When I asked if the computer, monitor, etc. were all plugged into the power bar, I was told yes and a lamp plugged into the outlet worked. When I arrived and looked at the power bar, everything was plugged into it... including the power bar. I had to unplug the lamp to free up an wall outlet for the power bar.

As for smokers? Dust and smoke residue is disgusting. Add in cat hair in a home use computer for that added level of revulsion.
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Old 06-16-2021, 03:02 AM   #19
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Don't try to read in an active MRI machine, since that is probably strong enough to rupture some of the spheres that implement the light/dark patterns on the display. (Well, actually, since a Kindle contains metal, it would basically turn into a sharp-edged flying brick if you did that, so... don't).
I'm just picturing Mobileread users trying to get anywhere near an MRI room with an ereader in hand. They'd be tackled to the ground by burly orderlies in quick order.
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Dead mouse inside a PC in the office of a Pharmaceutical factory.
Sky recording box with a fan overheating; full of cat hairs.
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Dead mouse inside a PC in the office of a Pharmaceutical factory.
Sky recording box with a fan overheating; full of cat hairs.

Mice = I'd hate to be visiting Australia at this specific moment, at least until they get that problem fixed. Same with spiders - from the news I saw just 10 minutes ago.
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Mice = I'd hate to be visiting Australia at this specific moment, at least until they get that problem fixed.
Australia's a very big place - the plague is largely affecting the Eastern states, from Brisbane down to Victoria. Large swathes are unaffected.

(The spider situation was just a few webs in Victoria after the floods. Not even venomous spiders.)
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Dead mouse inside a PC in the office of a Pharmaceutical factory.
A friend of mine had to fix a failed fan inside a PC that had been running (as the, uh, guts of some semi-embedded display) in a slaughterhouse, for years.

I am reliably told that the inside was unimaginably disgusting. And you can't even hose it down...
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Pressure washer fed with IPA?
They do exist.
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(The spider situation was just a few webs in Victoria after the floods. Not even venomous spiders.)
Australia has non-venomous spiders?

It's been a long and strange path from the safety of magnetic covers...
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More non-venomous spiders than we have non-venomous snakes!
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The drop bears aren't venomous either. It's not quite like XXX in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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The drop bears aren't venomous either. It's not quite like XXX in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
"not quite" being the key phrase according to this documentary footage.
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I have magnets on all but one cover and never had a problem with a screen. The only potential problem I can think of with magnets is if you have a pacemaker and fall asleep with your ereader on your chest or near your wires. I don't even know if THAT is a problem - but it's been a gadget discussion recently regarding latest iphone. I will have a pacemaker within the next 5 years, so I should pay more attention, but gadgets change so much year to year.
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It's been a long and strange path from the safety of magnetic covers...

Sort of like that Kobo Elipsa thread where eyeballs are discussed, eh?
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