"Surprisingly, we have also seen this issue connected to gas lift office chairs. When people stand or sit on gas lift chairs, they can generate an EMI spike which is picked up on the video cables, causing a loss of sync. If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs. Again swapping video cables, especially for ones with magnetic ferrite ring on the cable, can eliminate this problem."
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...
Demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voW5kEI7JKE
A paper about this phenomenon, titled "A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications":
Design and test is hard /s
KaptainKanasta, if you're out there, I know I speak for others who would love to hear if the chair was indeed the culprit. Though if it wasnt the chair and was indeed a malevolent spirit, I fear the worst.
I have lot times seen issues, when in concrete building, sit/stand causes vibration, which temporary turned off ground contact of some device and some strange unwanted things happens.
The most annoying in my life, where restarting of hdd drive. At beginning I thought, it caused because drive is broken. But than I checked connections and found just weak molex ata power connector - than i just use pliers to slightly bend contacts and those effects disappear forever.