Jaelights

Slooping dupes over here

Succinct transbien musician behind Lorelei and the Ghost.
Bring me your finest Yuris!





Music Links:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Jaelights
SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/jaelights
BandCamp:
https://jaelights.bandcamp.com/



Writing:
https://www.wattpad.com/user/Jaelights



Business Email if you want music:
loreleiandtheghost@gmail.com



Profile Pic by @nomnomnami


Go ahead, ask me how I know this, go on...

Yup, I found out the hard way. That's how my Mac Mini got zapped by a lightning strike, via the ethernet cable. I mean, not the whole thing, but by a current surge created by lightning striking an internet box in our apartment complex. It went into the wires and found my computer and said, "now you die!"

☠️

Funny thing is, I have that computer plugged into a power strip that has surge protection that is, in turn, connected to an APC Battery Backup which has voltage monitoring and surge protection. I figured I was super safe from lightning.

But, as it turns out, those protections mean jack diddly when the lightning hits one of the internet boxes in your apartment compelx.

Further funny thing? My power strip/surge protector has an ethernet passthrough for folks who are smart enough to know they should have a surge protector on their ethernet. Guess who looked at that thing and was like "who could possibly need that?", oh yeah, it's me...and I definitely needed it. Irdumb.

I got lucky though, it wasn't cheap, but my computer has been fixed so I can breath a little easier.

Main take aways:

  • always always always have up to date backups
  • have a surge protector
  • if you use ethernet, make sure that surge protector also has an ethernet passthrough.... yes, you do need it.

For anyone curious how I would know this: I had my computer diagnosed by TCRS Circuit in California. They did a thermal scan on my Mac Mini's motherboard and noticed heat spikes (so, short circuits) in the ethernet chip. For reason I don't understand, Apple decided that the ethernet chip should also help power the CPU. That's why my computer couldn't start, not enough power to the CPU.

They replaced the ethernet chip and it is now working :).

But yeah, between knowing my apartment was struck by lightning, knowing a bunch of internet equipment got zapped in the process, and, of course, knowing my own computer's ethernet card got zapped... It's pretty clear what happened. Surge protection probably would have saved me.


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