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Have you had any electronics die since the solar storms?

submitted by Niggly_Puff to AskUpgoat 1 yearMay 25, 2024 03:39:54 ago (+12/-0)     (AskUpgoat)

Since the solar storms I've had 3 screens mysteriously die

1 phone screen just stopped working. It displayed mostly black with lines of colors. The OS underneath would still react to input.
1 monitor started displaying horizontal lines of dead pixels
1 tv stopped displaying properly. The screen wasn't black but incoherent and displayed different lines of colors.

I never have these types of issues.


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[ - ] VitaminSieg 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 20:11:39 ago (+1/-0)

What's your latitude?

[ - ] Niggly_Puff [op] 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 21:56:26 ago (+1/-0)

I'm in FL.

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 18:40:04 ago (+1/-0)

Nope, nothing unusual happened with my stuff.

[ - ] Nosferatjew 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 13:20:46 ago (+1/-0)

Microwave stopped heating. Every other feature/function worked, just no heat. I fugured it was just "it's time".

Internet has bitched out recently too, but I also attribute this to the age of the hardware.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1 yearMay 30, 2024 16:14:22 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 12:37:53 ago (+1/-0)

Whenever it rained/stormed we would have a lot of clients internet drop or have massive packet loss

[ - ] carnold03 1 point 1 yearMay 25, 2024 10:49:51 ago (+1/-0)

Everything is working fine as far as I can tell. I might have to crack open my alarm clock so I can repair the snooze bar and replace a few batteries here and there, but otherwise everything is functioning as I would otherwise expect it to.

[ - ] MuricaPersonified 3 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 07:58:54 ago (+3/-0)

No, but I've noticed the ocassional GPU artifact on my screen with 2D graphics, such as browser windows scrambling up for a split second. No artifacts in 3D mode.

The video card is old at this point, though (GTX 1080ti). Haven't tried updating the driver.

[ - ] edmundo 8 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 07:50:16 ago (+8/-0)

No, nothing, if I didn't read about the solar storms I wouln't have known that anything unusual is happening.

[ - ] Conspirologist 0 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 07:48:10 ago (+1/-1)

My TV screen has become suddenly grey light, like old CRT TV's.

Before, the screen was black, with very well calibrated black.

Don't know if it's a coincidence, or because of solar storm.

[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 07:46:07 ago (+2/-0)

Wifi is in and out and an old phone I don't use as a phone, but for other things died

[ - ] Crackinjokes 4 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 06:32:22 ago (+4/-0)

No but my 4g lte phone has a terrible time with data stoppages now.

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 1 yearMay 25, 2024 05:53:51 ago (+2/-0)

Wifi stopped working during. Haven't messed with it yet so don't know if it's permanent.