This question came into my mind yesterday, when I caught the smell of burning wires in my room. Turns out, my power supply’s fan was jammed by my pen’s ink cartridge (Don’t ask why)

  • perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 years ago

    Fire

    • If you ignored the smell, maybe your house would burn down.

    Electrocution

    • If you for example tried to disassemble your power supply.

    Blunt trauma

    • If you have a big computer on a shelf it might fall and land on you.

    This is especially dangerous if you’re a data hoarder. It’s a slippery slope that can result in you scalping stuff like old DVRs for drives. Your computer might get very heavy.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      The electrocution risk would actually last even after it’s unplugged: Power supplies can have big capacitors in them.