Vent: The week I fixed a laptop that smelled like a fish market

The client said it just 'stopped working,' but after opening it up, I found a whole, dried-out anchovy wedged under the keyboard (I guess from a lunch spill, maybe?). Anyone else ever pulled something that wasn't a screw or a wire out of a device?

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lucas_jenkins15h ago

Read a story once about a tech finding a whole french fry fossilized inside a game console. How do people not notice these things falling into their gear? An anchovy takes the cake though, was the smell just part of the ambiance for them? Bet that keyboard felt a bit crunchy.

the_evan12h ago

Remember that old story about the ant colony found living inside a computer tower? Makes you wonder what ecosystems we're powering up with our PCs. Lucas_jenkins, your anchovy story just adds a whole new layer to the mystery of what ends up inside our tech. Do people just accept a weird smell as normal after a while? Maybe we're all just one spilled soda away from creating a new kind of sticky fossil record.