11-30-2017, 02:39 AM
idk there's been a bunch of stuff.
One particular incident was with my first "good" desktop in 2001. I came home one afternoon and noted a pretty funny smell in my room. Then puzzled over why my computer was off. A section of the motherboard had spontaneously burst into flames and did a good bit of charring. The box was a total loss. Still don't have a good idea what could have happened. There weren't even active components on that part of the board.
On a more recent note, my Nexus 5X phone spontaneously died on me last week. The funny bit is I had recently been doing some research and learned that there was a manufacturing defect in the 5X production that would virtually guarantee every device to eventually fail by desoldering its own chips or something. I ordered a new phone and was going to trade the old one in for credit. Alas it failed the night before the replacement arrived. Was it self-aware??
One particular incident was with my first "good" desktop in 2001. I came home one afternoon and noted a pretty funny smell in my room. Then puzzled over why my computer was off. A section of the motherboard had spontaneously burst into flames and did a good bit of charring. The box was a total loss. Still don't have a good idea what could have happened. There weren't even active components on that part of the board.
On a more recent note, my Nexus 5X phone spontaneously died on me last week. The funny bit is I had recently been doing some research and learned that there was a manufacturing defect in the 5X production that would virtually guarantee every device to eventually fail by desoldering its own chips or something. I ordered a new phone and was going to trade the old one in for credit. Alas it failed the night before the replacement arrived. Was it self-aware??
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