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SwiftOnSecurity

Periodic reminder just leaving shit unplugged for hours does fix things. Fucking capacitors/resettable fuses are everywhere and you have to defeat them with waiting it out with ALL POWER REMOVED. Even your USB devices and screens with their own power. No power in contact with anything that’s connected.

Fixed a washing machine like this. Just fixed my motherboard despite me hitting the reset to defaults button AND removing the battery.

Sometimes you got to just give things a time-out in a corner to think about what they did.

10 Dec 2023 at 21:05 | Open on infosec.exchange
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awooo :autism:​🏴‍☠️🐾⎇

@SwiftOnSecurity Heh I'm currently dealing with a washing machine that starts working when it sits for a couple days, but sadly it's not a one off, so I'm gonna replace all the caps

11 Dec 2023 at 21:13 | Open on floofy.tech
Cysio :verified_gay:​

@SwiftOnSecurity my multimonitor setup was acting out, got fixed only after I bopped the UPS powering the entire deal off for a while then bopped it back on again.

11 Dec 2023 at 21:16 | Open on mastodon.cysioland.pl
Morgan Aldridge

@SwiftOnSecurity To quote the #AppleNewton #FAQ:

"For the MessagePad 2000 and MessagePad 2100 only, remove the battery, cards, and power adapter. Let the Newton sit by itself for a few hours. Leave it a whole day or a whole night if you can. You won’t lose any data. Then put in fresh alkaline batteries, and plug in the power adapter. Press the reset button. This procedure cures nearly every turning-on problem these models have."

newtonfaq.com/newton-faq-hardw

/CC @splorp @newtontalk

@SwiftOnSecurity To quote the #AppleNewton #FAQ:

"For the MessagePad 2000 and MessagePad 2100 only, remove the battery, cards, and power adapter. Let the Newton sit by itself for a few hours. Leave it a whole day or a whole night if you can. You won’t lose any data. Then put in fresh alkaline batteries, and plug in the power adapter. Press the reset button. This procedure cures nearly every turning-on problem these models have."

11 Dec 2023 at 21:40 | Open on mastodon.social
Aaron

@SwiftOnSecurity I thought my X-Box 360’s sound was busted because it lost audio. Restarting the X-Box and the Receiver did nothing. Eventually I discovered there was a known issue where my Receiver would lose audio on some HDMI inputs and the fix was to unplug it (from power) for fifteen minutes. (This is why I have an X-Box One still sitting in a box because I bought it to replace what I thought was a busted 360.)

11 Dec 2023 at 21:42 | Open on hachyderm.io
iAmAnEngarneer

@SwiftOnSecurity i had a server unplugged and it never fixed it, but apparently holding power for 30 sec with the thing unplugged for a long time did something to the embedded controller to clear a nasty fault. Obscene.

11 Dec 2023 at 21:48 | Open on floss.social
Adora (She/Her) :flag_transgender:

@SwiftOnSecurity OMG. I thought I was just crazy for thinking this fixed things

11 Dec 2023 at 22:40 | Open on tech.lgbt
Simon Jaeger

@SwiftOnSecurity @Selena I always just assumed this was the tech fairy. She's got a lot of things to fix so if you don't leave it unplugged long enough, she won't get to it.

11 Dec 2023 at 22:56 | Open on dragonscave.space
Frank Skornia

@SwiftOnSecurity Ever since I built my current computer I would have an issue where the onboard Bluetooth adapter would just "disappear" sometimes in the middle of me using it.
The only solution I found was to turn off the computer, pull the plug from the PSU and wait 20-30 minutes.
This solution makes a lot more sense now. Thanks.

11 Dec 2023 at 23:01 | Open on glammr.us
Luna Saphira Dragofelis
@SwiftOnSecurity unfortunately many modern devices don't allow the user to remove the battery anymore
12 Dec 2023 at 15:51 | Open on fedi.criminallycute.fi
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