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.

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        You gotta be pretty dense or insane to think you can make a post on the open internet about smoking so much indoors that your computer needs to be submerged in solvent or something to get it clean, and not expect more than half the replies to be addressing the reason it got that way in the first place.

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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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        My lungs have a self-cleaning feature, and my PC doesn’t.

        😂

        Ending addictive behavior starts with admitting to yourself where your brain is lying to you about your habits and how gullible you are to accept those stories it sends you. You are not your brain.

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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

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          I don’t know what any of this means, but I can think of a much more effective solution for smokers.