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4 days agoDo we know of it’s specific to this microwave, or just something that happens to be grounded?
Is it just a static shock or something a bit more spicy?
Grounded things that would discharge static:
- The screw that holds the face plate over an electrical outlet.
- a metal PC case
I’m trying to understand if you’re
- accumulating static charge and discharging it by touching something that’s grounded.
Or - if your microwave is defective, leaking current on the chassis and you become the ground when you touch it.
You mentioning you’re barefoot, kinda maybe point to #2, which isn’t fun (or safe).
I imagine neither would happen wearing shoes, but I dislike shoes in my own house.
It does return an error on instances other then sopuli though. (sjw, jlai.lu, lemmy.ca)
Maybe it was restored locally by a sopuli admin or maybe federation of this event got lost.