Godaddy burned me in 2012. They registered a very low value domain (has bunch of digits in it) days after I searched it. They added it to their “Premium domain” service and wanted $250 for it. When I declined, they sold it to a HugeDomains who has held it for a $2500 ransom for a decade.
I eventually moved everything from godaddy to namecheap — I trusted them. But I’ve now had a similar experience there as well: a never-registered domain gets picked up by some Chinese entity within 24 hours of me using namecheap to check if it’s available. It took me years and hundreds of dollars to finally get that domain back.
My needs are stable for now but next domain purchase will likely be elsewhere.
And I'm really sorry, it's my first post on HN, I didn't want to make it look like an "undisclosed ad" of any sort, but I realise that this is EXACTLY how it looks currently...
But I cannot edit the post to remove the link or delete the post :(
OP here (new acc, because previous one has anti-procrast enabled:)
It's not a shock, that's comparable to a static electricity discharge, when touching a door handle for example.
And the "shock" I feel when I partially touch my laptop, is comparable to someone constantly pulling on one strand of your body hairs. It's a constant pain that happens when You baaarely come in to contact with the laptop with for example Your forearm (the skin on the palms is too thick to feel it)
It's actually a common theme with macbooks. A former coworker actually pointed it out to me.
"Ugghh, don't you hate it when you slide your finger across your laptop and it's giving you that buzz?"
I was like "What are you talking about? It's just the brushed aluminum feel?"
He told me to unplug the charger and try again. And Holy moly indeed the buzz stopped.
My wording was maybe a bit bad, but this really sounds like AC current leakage.
When you feel it, it is above the action potential, therefore activating your nerves and muscles.
This could be due to improper grounding or faulty components. This is not normal and shouldn't be!
It can cause all kinds of symptoms, but the general consensus is, that if it is below the dangerous threshold of around 30 mA, there will be only discomfort but no permanent or irreversible damage.
Discomfort is lightly said, but can have a huge impact on your quality of life. Please do something about this and maybe complain to the vendor. Even though this is not seen as health risk.
There are some studies suggesting in vitro damage for all kinds of cells at low levels of current, you as a complete system will be very resilliant to this.
If true, that's a HUGE scumbag move.