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by Lhiw 1659 days ago
I spent some time with a computer refurber back in the day. He used to buy old computers from mining operations these things were literally filled to the brim with dust and weird shit.

Computers are amazingly resilient if you don't need them for much more than office work.

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This sparked a memory of an internship I had where I was given an air compressor and had to go blow out machines in various school computer labs for a few weeks. In hindsight I should have worn an N95, they were nasty. They all worked, though.