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by jiggawatts 2486 days ago
You're not breathing silicon dust!

Chips in all computers are highly encased, either in ceramic, hard plastic, metal, or some combination. They're never, ever, exposed to the air circulating through a computer, because the dust would destroy the delicate circuitry.

If you're regularly cracking open chips to snack on them, you have bigger problems...