- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing Steam”
“it’s a big company with lots of games in its store. But that’s not important right now.”
What’s Steam?
Oh so now it’s the forbidden fumes. That’s even more tempting
I honestly never even wanted a steam deck…but now I kinda do just to huff the fucker.
Yo, I got a deal on Switch cartridges. Hit me up.
Literally tasted one within minutes of getting my hands on it.
Is this your tide pod moment?
Aww, okay. I’ll just have to go back to licking Switch cartridges then…
Those are coated in bitterant and taste terrible
I had no idea this was a thing until one day I was swapping games or something and temporarily held it between my lips. I didn’t taste it right away so I didn’t immediately link it back to the cartridge, but I mentioned it to the SO and she enlightened me.
I fell for a trap set for children and pets.
I don’t like the idea of a company telling me what I can and cannot smell. My father smelled potentially hazardous fumes, and his father ‘fore him! We will not submit!
My forefathers used canaries. Make a bird smell your Steam Deck vent.
I was hoping someone would get the reference 🙂
Try and stop me 🤗
Who would have thought that maybe sniffing fumes out of anywhere could be a bad idea
I have an old early 2000s mp3 player that still to this day has an inexplicable sweet orange/citrus scent that emanates from the audio jacks, even when not in use.
That’s the Funk
This reminds me of the bingo markers with scents. Loving the almond one. Still long after the markers have dried out, they still smell like that.
Probably really chemical since the new ones seem to smell less strong.
…even the drier vent? 😭
Don’t tell me what to do!
For real though, it smells nice so it’s probably pretty toxic. For some reason everything that smells or tastes good but isn’t food ends up being toxic as fuck. Like lead and plutonium. I’ve heard lead is sweet (I was smart enough not to eat the wall candy growing up), and plutonium apparently tastes like sour candy. The deck is probably shitting out super fenta-cancaids fumes that’re gonna shrivel our sex bits but it doesn’t matter because it smells divine.
Damn you Gaben with your super fenta-cancaids!
everything that smells good but isn’t food ends up being toxic as fuck
Wondering if this applies to the edges of laser-cut plywood…
no it’s not toxic, they have regulation for that, even valve said the the fumes aren’t toxic, put they aren’t going to say that people can smell it because some dumbass gonna burn their nose lol
Bro is that why they named the candy warheads?
Okay, this is a pretty funny article.
Valve’s response had the same vibes of a school teacher telling kids kindly (but firmly) to stop eating paste.
lmao
Is it possible it could be producing ozone and that it is reacting with the plastic? Ozone is not good to smell.
Electronics release all sorts of non-cool chemicals… plastic related, and flame retardants.
flame removedants
That’s actually really funny.
This is not a helpful feature.
But where were the ants removed to?
That’s Lemmy.ml for you. Could swap to an instance like .world that doesn’t use the profanity removal feature.
Solder and flux, too.
Does solder actually emit fumes below melting point? I did not know about that.
depends on the solder, honestly. I doubt it would be an issue with consumer/mass produced electronics, but there’s a possibility. But if you’re doing your own with rosin-core solder (which is most solders,) the rosin/flux can. (you can remove it with stuff meant to remove it. which you should do because flux is freaking nasty.)
Probably not, that would require fairly high voltages. It’s probably plastics off-gassing.
I will be using that word now what my body needs to gas off.
SteamDeck Sativa edition
New electronics smell so good though. I’m OK to lose a couple hours of my life expectancy to enjoy that, in moderation.
Huh. I wonder if it smells similar to the heat that comes off the back of a PS4.
Maybe, I haven’t smelled a PS4 but I have a Steam Deck and it just has that sort of hot electronics smell
Never
There shouldn’t be any fumes unless something is burning. 🤨
Solvents and other residues can off gas over weeks and months (or possibly longer) without any burning.
100% the same as the “new car smell”
My favorite smell after baby smell.
Nothing beats new baby head smell, I really don’t understand why they smell so pleasant. We recently had another baby (2nd child) and I’d forgotten how nice it was.
So it isn’t dangerous but they just don’t want you to do it.
I’m wondering if in a few years we find out that hot plastic emits stuff that isn’t good for you.
Well now I’m gonna do it lol
Gotta see what all the fuss is about.