I came up with this question right after I wanted to take apart a microwave to see why it wasn’t heating anything before I remembered that that’s a very, VERY bad idea

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
    521·
    23 days ago
    • Laser / LED printers can blind you and may have larger capacitors.
    • Old CRT style TVs / Monitors can get you if not discharged correctly.
      • FromPieces@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        That is my understanding. I remember hearing stories about dudes visiting a dump or whatever, kicking through the screen of a CRT and getting zapped like fuck

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
          52·
          23 days ago

          Do you ever find that sometimes when you intervene in to other people’s conversations to pull out some of your best absolute cracker lines like “why don’t you google that?” that people just don’t react properly at all? Like you’d expect an appropriate response like some light cheering and maybe lifting you up on their shoulders and handing you a medal and at least a couple of trophies. You know, something befitting of your incisive and insightful contributions, and instead they just kinda stop talking to you? That’s so weird huh?

          • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
            222·
            23 days ago

            No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

            The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

            Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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              23 days ago

              Why don’t you Google why people don’t Google things instead of asking why they don’t Google it? It’s pretty hypocritical of you to ask that without putting in the research.