Comment by lloeki
7 months ago
> 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)
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.