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Given that this was posted back in January and nobody else has chimed in with a "my computer too" or "oh my goodness that's how my peripherals all died" post, I
by 3JPLW 8y ago
Given that this was posted back in January and nobody else has chimed in with a "my computer too" or "oh my goodness that's how my peripherals all died" post, I'm guessing it's an isolated failure.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> Given that this was posted back in January and nobody else has chimed in with a "my computer too" or "oh my goodness that's how my peripherals all died" post, I'm guessing it's an isolated failure. Plenty of people have. My laptop did the same thing back in January, frying two separate U2F devices (at first, I thought the key was faulty, but it fried two different keys on different ports). I replaced the laptop and haven't thought about it since, until two days ago, when my replacement laptop fried a display adapter.
- vokep 8y agoIts rare but I know someone who fried at least 4 devices. We found this post when trying to figure it out, wish we had thought of putting it on HN!
- dunham 8y agoIs it always that specific port that fries stuff? (I tend to use it for power out of habit, and can be careful not to use it for anything else going forward.)
- master-litty 8y agoThere are at least 93 other people who clicked "I have this question too" on the post.
- 3JPLW 8y agoYes, now there are. When I authored my post there were less than 20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180501201626/https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635 https://web.archive.org/web/20180501201626/https://discussio...
- master-litty 8y agoThe Hacker News effect :)
- asdsa5325 8y agoThis thread is filled with people complaining about the same thing
- 3JPLW 8y agoYes, it is now. When I posted every single comment in this thread was FUD-dy, but it wasn't yet clear how common of a thing this was. There's more evidence now, so I'm updating my prior.