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If you've been time poor for a long time, just being able to take the time to de-cruddify your living space is a luxury.

• appleaday1 3y ago
  ahaha the amount of coffee cups I amassed was enough to fill the room at one point
• BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  I have a tolerance level for mess that usually gets breached soon after winter finishes (spring cleaning?) due to winter being more busy for my life. It's a boom and bust kinda cycle. It's a great feeling when you're finally back to clean and tidy and at least the illusion of future efficiency.
• ilaksh 3y ago
  I recently experienced this in a way. My laptop was overheating a few months ago and finally a BIOS screen said that the fan was not working. I had also as usual used up all my meagre "runway" working on my "startup" and had to immediately pick up a new contract. So I panicked a bit and just got cheap Chromebook. Because of having both projects and needing to put a lot of energy into the contract, I assumed that fixing the laptop was going to be too involved. So I kept deciding "I don't have energy for it this weekend". Turns out, all I had to do was remove the back cover and then the heat sink. And then pull/blow out the piles of furry dust out that were totally blocking the air flow. I didn't need to buy or replace a fan and I already had the correct screwdriver (which I had assumed I needed to buy a new one along with a fan). I guess the point of the story is that after a certain amount of time, people might want to clean their laptop intake vents or open it up and clean inside in that area.
  • taneq 3y ago
    Oh man, I moved my old work desktop (built in 2015) from my home office to work recently. When I got it to work I gave it a good blast out with the air gun and oh my GOD there was so much dust in there. It was horrifying.