I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular cleaning. So, I reckon, the easiest way to clean it is to dunk the dirtiest parts in a bath of isopropyl alcohol. I was considering acetone at first, but it’s way too strong of a solvent, and alcohol should be better at dissolving organic residues. Is this a good idea?

I hereby submit this query to the council, and await judgement.

    • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.worldOP
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      My lungs have a self-cleaning feature, and my PC doesn’t.

      Feel free to roast me for my lack of tech literacy and dumb ideas, but not my health. I have calculated everything. My body will be fine for as long as it needs to be.

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        This answer makes me sad.

        I believe you that you know more about the health impacts of smoking than non-smokers. I noticed you didn’t say it was healthy but only that your

        body will be fine for as long as it needs to be.

        My dad smoked from age 17 to 84. His body was fine for a long time.

        However, he really suffered for the last decade between the emphysema and the cancer. The last 3 years in particular were awful.

        The cancer wasn’t even that advanced when it was first diagnosed but no-one was willing to operate because of his lungs (general anaesthesia was basically a death sentence). Eventually it metastasised.

        He suffered but it wasn’t killing him. I remember one particularly bad emphysema attack near the end, where he couldn’t get air, and he was literally begging to just die. Eventually he shot himself. He held out as long as he could for the sake of our family, especially his grandchildren, but he really didn’t want to die in the hospital.

        I know exactly how addictive smoking is. My brothers watched my dad suffer and still they can’t quit. My dad couldn’t quit and he was the one suffering.

        So, this comment is not intended as a lecture or advice or recrimination. It’s just a story about a wonderful man with a horrendous addiction. I tell it in the hope that it might be one more nudge to help you finally beat your addiction. Wishing you all the best.

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        Good point. That’s why no one has ever died from smoking problems. You’ll be fine.

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        It seems like we should be doing the opposite, you seem to understand tech just fine and are very ignorant about health.

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        Gotta get a lung flute. You’ll puke after you see what you cough out. Next smoke hits like a truck too