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This Janet Jackson BASSLINE breaks laptops
wraper:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 07, 2023, 01:27:22 pm ---As for laptop speakers (or even typical desktop speakers) causing problems, I highly doubt it. Whilst spinning rust hard disk drives are precision instruments, they are pretty resilient, especially the 2.5" laptop drives. Not to mention laptop speakers simply wouldn't have anywhere near enough output capability to be able to damage anything. They would tear themselves apart long before they damage a hard disk.
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Well, the story is not about physical damage but OS crashing on certain laptop model while playing that song. While the story may be fake, IMHO it's far from impossible.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: wraper on January 07, 2023, 08:49:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benta on January 07, 2023, 08:43:25 pm ---I call bullshit as well.
I read the story elsewhere (can't find it right now, sorry), but the point was that extremely agressive copy protection wreaked havoc on Win machines (as always). It's a Big Music plus Microsoft thing.
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The story is not about DRM but about vibration at certain frequency causing HDD malfunction. FWIW HDDs are sensitive to vibration, so the story has some plausibility.
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Yep. The less plausible part is that the laptop's speakers would have high enough output for low frequencies to cause any issue.
Those tiny speakers usually have a pretty poor low-freq response. So it sounds pretty unlikely to be able to couple vibration with enough amplitude to cause damage to a hard drive. So yeah, not impossible but rather unlikely.
But it's a funny story nonetheless.
Benta:
I'm certain Adam Neely is a great musician and YouTuber (never heard or seen any of his stuff).
But he's certainly not an engineer or even a technician.
Why publish/propapgate this kind of cr*p? What's the point? Wasting people's time?
wraper:
By long term Microsoft dev https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
Benta:
Raymond Chen: "A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support." [must have been around 2005. My comment].
This anecdote gets taken up by various media (most of whom should have known better) and published in August 2022... 17 years later.
Now, I've told many stories at company parties, where alcohol was freely available, some with laughter, incredulity and success, but also some that fell flat.
Considering that Mr. Chen (who's a SW guy BTW) is the ONLY source for this story, I'll relegate it to the "Urban Legends" area.
Sorry.
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