• marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 month 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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        1 month 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.

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