Phalanges Mycologist
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- Sep 11, 2021
Just google nicotine/cigarettes and computers to see what kind of fucked up concoction will, without a doubt, have set up it's home in Cobra's iMac.
Combine that with paint fumes (probably acrylic) and you get a computer like a copd patient.
Chances are though, if he punched it ( and it failed because of that), that it could be just some unseated connectors making bad contact through all the grime.
I'm a heavy smoker and I've always been careful to clean out my systems regularly, including my iMacs just because I know how bad it can get.
But the paint thing yea, not to power level but I worked IT for a period of time in a plant that had spray booths that also had computers in them and even if they where sealed for spark prevention paint finds it's way everywhere and kills the system (you do find the odd trooper that keeps going caked in 2 decades of paint) these booths ran 24/7 47 weeks of the year that still had to have regular cleaning that where designed to be in that environment, paint's like Cobes uses build up fast even as dry particulate.
Oddly having thought about it my Mac's always keep on trucking, I gave one of my old iMac's to my cousin who smokes and never cleans his systems out and I swapped out the HDD for him and the filters where clogged, and the fan had stains from backkie but it kept going but he is a fairly light user Browser and a text editor no heavy lifting so that's why Cobes system lasted so long.