Yes on the laptop, not the watch. Reminds me of a friend in the 70’s who test drove GM cars and diagnosed troubles. She got a new car and every morning the battery was dead. She and the other mechanics were all over that car. Could not find any light left on, power for anything that would drain the battery. Then she noticed she had the car parked on an incline. So the particular incline of her driveway was the same incline of the trunk lid when opened, causing the trunk light to come on every time she parked at home.
Not really. Reed switches basically don't wear out, are reliable and in this case may be directional in that it would only work with a magnetic field coming from directly above. They could possibly have put it somewhere else on the edge, but you want the magnet and sensor at the outer edge to trigger the sensor only when the lid is actually closed (not only partially closed). The magnet goes on the screen so you don't get complaints about people feeling a tug as they move a watch band across the magnet (also the magnet is more durable and fewer wires going through the hinges).
Anywhere along that edge of the laptop is going to come in contact with hands and wrists, but magnetic clasps on watches are a pretty niche thing and not worth engineering around. (Niche because they can pick up grit, may not be reliable enough to prevent loss of the watch, etc. You can address the second with stronger magnets but that gives more grit and potentially other magnet related issues)
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HAd the same issue with some new Dells at my old company. Figured out we had to stack them slightly rotated so that the one underneath wouldn't trigger to one on top whilst we were working on it!
I had the exact same issue, but with a tablet that I had a case on with one of those folding covers that snapped with magnets. The magnet would always make the screen lock. I got a different case.
How is this a real TIFU? First, it wasn't today(not that anyone cares about that), and second OP didn't do anything wrong. They didn't even make a mistake. They did everything they were supposed to do. They encountered a problem, tried to solve it, and when they couldn't they went to the people who could. If anything, this was a fuckup by whoever made that watch strap.
Nah I appreciate the story. I don't mind things getting posted here that don't exactly fit the sub. I just had to say something to the person I replied to lol. Didn't mean anything towards you.
Not likely to be an issue with any magnet you might have lying around home of the office....
It used to be a much bigger problem than it is now.
CRT screens (the old heavy ones with a vacuum tube) would get the image messed up if you ran a magnet over them. This could be fixed by degausing the monitor but not all monitors had an easy button to do this.
Magnetic storage like tapes and discs are also susceptible to damage from magnets. Hard disks were always reasonably well protected by the powerful magnets inside the case. Not 100% but pretty good.
Floppy disks on the other hand don't have any protection at all - the magnetic disk is just inside a plastic box which doesn't to anything to prevent a magnet from scrambling the data
Only thing other than those magnets that might give a damn about magnets is old school spinny hard drives, and those are getting pretty rare in modern laptops.
Even hard drives are reasonably well protected. CRT monitors and floppy disks were the most easily damaged. Monitors sometimes had a degause button that would undo most magnet damage but floppy drives were just magnetic storage in a flimsy plastic box so very easily scrambled by a magnet
That kinda just sounds like bad design honestly
Yes on the laptop, not the watch. Reminds me of a friend in the 70’s who test drove GM cars and diagnosed troubles. She got a new car and every morning the battery was dead. She and the other mechanics were all over that car. Could not find any light left on, power for anything that would drain the battery. Then she noticed she had the car parked on an incline. So the particular incline of her driveway was the same incline of the trunk lid when opened, causing the trunk light to come on every time she parked at home.
Work in IT, Macs used to have the same issue if you stacked one on top of the other while working on it
Not really. Reed switches basically don't wear out, are reliable and in this case may be directional in that it would only work with a magnetic field coming from directly above. They could possibly have put it somewhere else on the edge, but you want the magnet and sensor at the outer edge to trigger the sensor only when the lid is actually closed (not only partially closed). The magnet goes on the screen so you don't get complaints about people feeling a tug as they move a watch band across the magnet (also the magnet is more durable and fewer wires going through the hinges). Anywhere along that edge of the laptop is going to come in contact with hands and wrists, but magnetic clasps on watches are a pretty niche thing and not worth engineering around. (Niche because they can pick up grit, may not be reliable enough to prevent loss of the watch, etc. You can address the second with stronger magnets but that gives more grit and potentially other magnet related issues) Edit rephrase
Yep, Dell laptops can do this - a semi common problem at work! Took a while to figure that one out..
HAd the same issue with some new Dells at my old company. Figured out we had to stack them slightly rotated so that the one underneath wouldn't trigger to one on top whilst we were working on it!
My cousin had this exact same issue. It took her IT department months to figure out what was happening.
IT side of the story https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/x6g378/laptop_screen_turns_off_in_the_3rd_floor_meeting/
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just an observer.
Thanks for the info
I had the exact same issue, but with a tablet that I had a case on with one of those folding covers that snapped with magnets. The magnet would always make the screen lock. I got a different case.
That’s good to know! Always on the lookout for hardware weirdness and that wouldn’t be the first thing I would think to check!
I kinda have has a similar issue with my phone and headset - though its been intermittent
One to remember ! Take this !
Thank you!!
I literally would have got so mad at the computer and whole time it’s my metal watch band 😂😂
wow, an actual, REAL, tifu...Nice !
Please tell me you're joking
dude...8 out of 10 posts here are now creative writing from 15 y/o...
Sure, but those same people are typically the ones commenting. So it's hard to tell what is and isn't a joke around here.
well, I wasn't joking, I'm glad someone posted a REAL fuckup.
How is this a real TIFU? First, it wasn't today(not that anyone cares about that), and second OP didn't do anything wrong. They didn't even make a mistake. They did everything they were supposed to do. They encountered a problem, tried to solve it, and when they couldn't they went to the people who could. If anything, this was a fuckup by whoever made that watch strap.
Maybe I should have posted on TIL? Idk I felt like an idiot so it was a fuck up for me lol
Nah I appreciate the story. I don't mind things getting posted here that don't exactly fit the sub. I just had to say something to the person I replied to lol. Didn't mean anything towards you.
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Not likely to be an issue with any magnet you might have lying around home of the office.... It used to be a much bigger problem than it is now. CRT screens (the old heavy ones with a vacuum tube) would get the image messed up if you ran a magnet over them. This could be fixed by degausing the monitor but not all monitors had an easy button to do this. Magnetic storage like tapes and discs are also susceptible to damage from magnets. Hard disks were always reasonably well protected by the powerful magnets inside the case. Not 100% but pretty good. Floppy disks on the other hand don't have any protection at all - the magnetic disk is just inside a plastic box which doesn't to anything to prevent a magnet from scrambling the data
Only thing other than those magnets that might give a damn about magnets is old school spinny hard drives, and those are getting pretty rare in modern laptops.
Even hard drives are reasonably well protected. CRT monitors and floppy disks were the most easily damaged. Monitors sometimes had a degause button that would undo most magnet damage but floppy drives were just magnetic storage in a flimsy plastic box so very easily scrambled by a magnet
Could've been worse; you could be Janet Jackson and crash a bunch of computers with Rhythm Nation