# My laptop's gone insane. I need help

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-laptops-gone-insane-i-need-help/949647 "2021-08-27T23:32:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-laptops-gone-insane-i-need-help/949647/21 "2021-10-18T19:58:26Z")

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> [@Askance](#):
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> …that was supposed to stop the wifi from harming her. I pointed out that the only way it could do that (on the false assumption there was any harm to ameliorate of course) is by stopping the wifi altogether, so why have it on at all?

A simple Faraday cage completely surrounding the router would have solved that problem.

Or a tinfoil suit.

> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#):
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> Possibly that mode was useful in the dozen languages that read right to left, like Hebrew, Arabid, etc.

Could be - someone suggested to me that it might be useful if you had a kind of display unit that was designed to be set on top of an overhead projector unit - though I’ve never seen anything like that, and I don’t know if it would need to be mirror-image.

This was 10-15 years ago and I still crack up when I think of it. I used to write backwards as a hobby / joke, and I think it was Og’s way of getting back at me.

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