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What is the strangest tech related bug you can't resolve? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.

For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.

What technological gremlins haunt you?

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[-] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My computer turns itself on when I walk through a certain spot nearby it.

"Ah, you must have your mouse or some other peripheral set to activate it and the vibrations from walking-" Nope, I know how to disable wakeup from peripherals. "Well, then the vibrations from walking must be disturbing a loose component inside-" Nope, problem existed through a near-complete teardown and OS reinstall. Also, putting the PC on vibration isolating foam did not help.

At this point, I'm down to two conclusions:

The wire for the wall outlet runs under the floor, and vibrations are causing adequate power fluctuations to wake the machine up. Not sure how to test for this, though it does concern me about the state of the wiring.
The PC is haunted.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 16 points 8 months ago

Do you have wake-on-lan enabled? Any setting that would wake on network activity? Could be you're interrupting or amplifying a signal - Ethernet or WiFi - that is causing the OS to think it's getting traffic.

[-] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

No Wifi, as it simply doesn't have a wifi adaptor.

Ethernet is a possibility. I tested it right now and removing the Ethernet cable doesn't cause a wake-up, but I suppose it's possible that slight interference if the cable were just slightly moved might cause it to register traffic plus a continued connection, enough to cause a wakeup. I'll try tinkering with that, thanks!

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

It's only a theory; if you don't have wake-on-lan enabled, it'd probably not be even a consideration.

[-] HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting. Wake-On-Lan is not only traffic, you need to send the MAC in the packages.

Maybe some shielding problem?

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

You know it’s 2! Everything you do. It’s haunted for you!

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