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martin-adams on Nov 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spotify excessively writing to drive

This reminds me when Dell refused warranty repairs if VLC was installed[1]

Turns out that you could increase the volume causing hard clipping, which caused physical problems on the speakers.

[1] http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/...

lorenzhs on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

That was a dell issue, though, and had nothing to do with VLC. See the following comment by jbk (VLC lead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205875

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