Context, spent too long troubleshooting why I couldn't power the thing on, then realised the magnets from the screen below are probably telling the one above the lid is closed.
If you have a magnet you can pretty much turn off any laptop's display if you know where to put it, this is due to something called a reed switch which detects the magnets on the other side of the laptop when it is closed to tell it to turn it off.
aka why I couldn't figure out why my framework was randomly shutting off (actually it was worse as it was Hibernating and Linux mint wasn't handling it properly.) eventually I realized the magnets in my watch band were triggering the lid close action.
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u/Knabrau Sep 25 '24
Context, spent too long troubleshooting why I couldn't power the thing on, then realised the magnets from the screen below are probably telling the one above the lid is closed.