Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this
Fuckin magnets man
Fuckin magnets man
Man, I was working a desktop support job when they first started to use magnets in the laptops for the closed lid mechanism. I was trying to set up a laptop and I for the life of me couldn’t get the screen to turn on.
After like an hour of trying to figure it out and a call to Dell support, I shifted the laptop and the screen turned on. Stupid laptop was so thin the magnet from the laptop under it was causing it to think it was closed.
A couple of years ago I was having a problem with the screen on my laptop randomly turning off and I was afraid that it was broken. Turns out it was my magnetic watch strap tripping the "lid closed" sensor.
I just found out the other day that the New 3DS XLs screen open sensor can be tricked by a laptop lid magnet, I was confused AF for a sec on why it was making sounds while closed lol
I mean, it's still a very unlikely way to land. Even if it hit very close to directly upright, you'd think it'd be much more likely that it'd fall flat against the surface of the laptop. But not as unlikelycompletely impossible as if there wasn't a magnet right there.
