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[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Headline photo is actually a jump-scare

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Fun fact, I looked at that article. And my monitor exploded. No joke. I was in sudden darkness, and the mains were turned off. Pc survived thankfully, and I have a secondary monitor but lol wtf. (I need to go to bed).

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 57 minutes ago

my bad, I was working on the awful.systems psychic energy collector and it must have backlashed

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe your monitor was trying to protect you

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

Rest of my electronics have survived so very likely. Guess it got confused as I'm also looking for new glasses and went "dont pick one of those*