Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Strong Clippy vibes.

  “It looks like you’re trying to damage your screen. Can I help?”

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do they work?

  Image

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  • tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally no one knows.

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  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy shit this picture is awesome

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• Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chromebooks regularly do this

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you sure it’s magnets? Have you ruled out magic?

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  • SilentObserver@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah. More probable to be matrix.

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  • independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aren’t magnets magic??

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    • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only the magic ones.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but what kind of magic?

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  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By jove hes a wizard

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• flauschtier@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  „Fucking magnets, how do they work?“

  • An Intellectual

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• nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OP discovers magnetism

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, don’t take my comment too seriously, it was meant as a joke.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor

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  • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does that have to do with the picture? There’s probably a speaker underneath

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The magnet helps signal that the display is closed, triggering sleep mode.

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    • alonely0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, not that close to the edge, and especially not in this laptop cuz it must have them firing down. It’s the hall effect sensor of the lid.

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• sudoroot@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favorite hobby

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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