so apparently magnets can sometimes be bad for electronics, eg they can corrupt hard drive data or damage your phone. but they’re also used all the time in electronics (one that comes to mind right now is the magnetic charging port for my phone)
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Magnets are not nearly as bad for electronics as you might think. Moving a very powerful magnet quickly very close to a long wire can mess with the electronics, but a large enough magnet is hard to come by.
The real risk is with *specifically* magnetic memory, which is not used on small devices like phones. In regular computers it is pretty deep inside, so you’d have a hard time getting a magnet near it.
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