Reported to Consumer Affairs - beware!!

A residual charge can indeed build up in all electrical devices, however this can only happen if the isolated ground isn't grounding correctly.

I live in a place that creates these conditions regularly, and even so it's EXCEEDINGLY RARE. I've seen this sort of thing happen and make equipment malfunction only a handful of times in my life. If it's happening on a frequency that's visible and measurable, you've got an issue... one that will result in a facility fire if not found. It's not a computer problem, it's an issue with the electrical mains, or perhaps the Internet feed.
 
GTP said:
What is "static buildup?" I've never heard of such a thing. I'm open to being enlightened though.
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Static build up is more a colloquial term. I can remember in High School we did some experiments around that. The longer you subject an object to a charge building activity, like rubbing a glass rod with silk material, the more energy the discharge dissipates when grounded. We actually had some fun with that, if you know what I mean.......

In this part of the world it's usually associated with laundry in the dryer. So they can sell people on fabric softener or drier sheets.

Computer Bloke said:
What I have trouble with is OP's apparent belief that a computer will build up a static charge (it doesn't) which needs to be cleared (huh?) in order to make it work. This is pure magical thinking and OP's assumption that this is a routine procedure that we all perform ("in the usual way") is staggering.
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I worked at CompUSA with a tech, Steve, who fit that Dunning Krugger description to a T. Amongst other incredible claims he used to tell customers that their machine failed because of cascading bad electrons flowing through the air. Yes, he really did say that. After he told that to an EE from the nearby US Army Natick Labs, store management told the tech manager Steve could no longer talk to customers.
 
Yes with chips themselves like
Markverhyden said:
Static build up is more a colloquial term. I can remember in High School we did some experiments around that. The longer you subject an object to a charge building activity, like rubbing a glass rod with silk material, the more energy the discharge dissipates when grounded. We actually had some fun with that, if you know what I mean.......

In this part of the world it's usually associated with laundry in the dryer. So they can sell people on fabric softener or drier sheets.



I worked at CompUSA with a tech, Steve, who fit that Dunning Krugger description to a T. Amongst other incredible claims he used to tell customers that their machine failed because of cascading bad electrons flowing through the air. Yes, he really did say that. After he told that to an EE from the nearby US Army Natick Labs, store management told the tech manager Steve could no longer talk to customers.
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Solar Flare just in your area.
 
This threads sad but also amusing from what remains the OPs claims around "Static Build Up" ring like all these snake oil ads you see for things making promises and claiming verified by research but there is usually 0 good or valid research done to support it. I am thinking of the some the Tech BS too like the Audiophile WiFi NICs and other non-audio components making claims to clean up audio from noise and such.
 
Rigo said:
Was it supposed to make sense? 😳
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Haha @Rigo No is a parody.

"A retro meme that fondly satirises absurd technical language is still bringing engineers joy"
“SANS ICS HyperEncabulator”. In it, a suave man in a suit explained this new “cybersecurity” machine, gesturing at an impressive refrigerator-sized device, hailing its ability to be “sinosinclastic without sacrificing both normative reality and AI-informed modalities”. He then explained that a previous generation of this device, the retro-encabulator, was made with “prefabulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing”. Not so with the HyperEncabulator! Unlike its predecessors, he said, the HyperEncabulator “operates totally under the principle of colonic effluvium expulsion”.
 
Not taking any sides because I didn't see the original post, but you guys should google "flea power" and read about how it's talked about by various people. Granted, not exactly what was said, but enough that it's "close enough" to not ridicule
 
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