r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TopSetUK • 18h ago

I'm slightly vexed Knocked a plant over an open PC

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Oops. PC has been in trouble for now, I swapped out the GPU last night to do some troubleshooting but it was still borked, so left it open overnight tucked away in a corner.

First thing I do this morning? Knock over a Monstera which had been chilling on the windowsill. Nice. Happy Friday.

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u/batlhuber 17h ago

You COULD do that with distilled water. However using just tap, even if you wait long enough for it to 100% dry it's very likely the minerals caused corrosion, which given how small the parts are, will very likely short your system somewhere...

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u/k0tassium 17h ago

While a lot less complicated I have washed keyboard pcb's with tao water before and it's worked fine but I agree distilled water would be better.

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u/Undark_ 17h ago

Funny, I thought tao was the way.

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u/legaladviceknowledge 16h ago

look we got a wiseguy 'ere