• marcos@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The name to google is “electromigration”.

    It’s absolutely not what makes you old computer slow (neither are bad capacitors). But it may be what makes it stop working.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      have there been like studies on this? Or anything that shows any sort of relevant data about it? I’ve been curious what effect it has on manufactured stuff like this for a while now.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      But that is not caused by “every electron” and only happens under very specific conditions.