On Wed 12 Aug 2020 at 17:05:01 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > > hardware failure. > > The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason > that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one of the USB > ports (which I had used before just fine), but if connected through a > USB hub it works just fine. So I wonder what could be going on, or > "they" are just messing with me, make me "wonder" ... as if I didn't > have enough to do already.
In the race to make devices thinner, all the connectivity seems to have suffered reliability problems. On a 7 yr old Lenovo, USB plug/sticks disconnect and reconnect because they're not gripped firmly enough, and the charger suffers similarly. The latter has likely contributed to the demise of the charging circuit. On a 2½ yr old HP, there are similar problems with the HDMI socket and with the USB C-style charger. The HDMI output now has to be fed through a USB-C hub. So USB sockets have messed with people for many years, even on desktops. > I do know that they somehow install keyloggers apparently through > java script on every computer I use even if I am using a computer at a > public library. Now you've lost me. > On Windows, when I go: "Control Panel\Hardware and Sound" ... and > then click on: "view hardware and devices" I see what you are supposed > to see on the attached [ix Cheers, David.
