On: Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone ...

[tj-teej]

Maybe this is a naive question: but I remember growing up there was a hard and fast rule that you could not have magnets anywhere near your technology, is this not the case anymore?

Was it only floppy-disks and disk based tech which had issues?

[thirsteh → tj-teej]

Yeah, there are not many moving parts now. It messed with read heads in HDDs as well as CRT monitors.

I still get nervous if there are magnets around cause I don't know how they work.

[DavidAdams → thirsteh]

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