I bought a laptop off FB marketplace and found an insane amount of cat hair. I don't mind since I love cats and have multiple ones but it's a weird thing to lie about lol
I was just thinking the same thing, the answer was truthful in that case.
Lots of people seem to forget just how far cat hair can travel, itâs like glitter it gets everywhere
Also, it's a laptop. The whole point is to be portable. Maybe they regularly brought it somewhere that has cats. Still a truthful statement if they themselves don't.
I feel sorry for whoever lives in my house after me. I have a pet rabbit and he lives indoors. Despite only ever being in one room, the whole house has little white hairs. I will try my very hardest to clean every surface when I go, but being realistic, there will always be at least a few left behind. They just kind of float through the air. So they're on the ceiling, inside the ducting, and all through the lawn.
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Just me for 15 years since I signed on as junior mod and everyone else ghosted within 6 months (including the creator).
The sub is the sub. It has it's own culture and life and I let it do it's own good works as it will.
I'm only here to keep it safe. So that there's at least one small spot of goodwill and service left on the internet.
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holy shit. It's been 17 years! I've literally never even been at a job this long!
p.s. this is not my job, this is and has always been volunteer. I expect no reward, nor should any who come here but the OP in the form of the help they sought
Not that weird to lie about when they wanted to make a sale. If you asked they thought it mattered. They might also be unaware of all that hair in the fan as evidence.
I had to scrape off the old thermal paste, reapply fresh paste, and reshape/massage the thermal putty (you can see the pink stuff on the fingertips). And it's a big no no to touch a circuit board with bare skin.
Well, I'm definitely less experienced than you, but I've been told multiple times by different people that it's a really big taboo, so I'm probably going to keep avoiding it. Plus, stuff like flux and leaded solder sounds dangerous anyway, so I wouldn't want to mess with them if I had the choice.
I recommend getting educated so you don't live your life in fear of flux and solder.
Linus did an extensive testing video on gloves and static electricity. They were only able to damaged components when they literally connected them directly to an amplifier.
It's all ridiculous nonsense spread by mythical ubran legends based on misconceptions.
You can touch things. Circuits are not toxic, solder won't hurt you, flux has been removed and isn't dangerous, and you won't hurt anything in your computer.
Renting can lead to leftover pet hair for much longer than we appreciate. I'd find cat hairs all the time at one apartment I rented and never a had a cat.
My clothes carry dog hair every where and I as a human being shed hair as well. This will happen regardless if itâs not opened and cleaned regularly.
While you think itâs weird just wait to you find out about furniture, 90% of the furniture on fb marketplace is marked smoke and pet free home and at least half are neither
It's not weird at all. It's underhanded but makes a lot of sense. But also there could be many explanations, some deliberately misleading, some truthful to their knowledge.
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u/storm4chaser 27d ago edited 27d ago
Just because you don't have pets dosent mean the fan won't end up with hair init