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   Lea de Groot 🇦🇺 (leadegroot@bne.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:55 JST Lea de Groot 🇦🇺

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   • Piggo :verified_horse:
   • David de Groot
   • Tris Kerslake

   @Triskerslake @piggo @david oh, but it was worse than that. I have an… odd sense of smell - a lot of things i miss. Walking through the office, i thought “thats a weird perfume someone is wearing”. Walking back through the office, i thought “im not sure thats perfume”.
   “Guys, do you smell smoke?”
   They all looked at me with horror (no one wants to hear that!!) then said “No”
   No, over here, i said, and David got up to look.
   Yes, he said, smoke, and i said Phew!
   and then we tracked it down :)

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     Tris Kerslake (triskerslake@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:56 JST Tris Kerslake

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     • Piggo :verified_horse:
     • David de Groot

     @piggo @david I think I'd be quite alarmed to find something like that. I am pathologically conditioned to turning things off when not in use. My father used to be a lighthouse keeper back in the UK and I remember him going around switching everything off when his watch was over. Those were the days of paraffin lights and oil burners.

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     Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:57 JST Piggo :verified_horse:

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     • David de Groot
     • Tris Kerslake
     @Triskerslake @david yeah e-waste. I don't think these have any heavy or rare metals, but why not
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     Tris Kerslake (triskerslake@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:58 JST Tris Kerslake

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     • David de Groot

     @piggo @david and then dispose of it in ewaste or the general rubbish?

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     Tris Kerslake (triskerslake@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:59 JST Tris Kerslake

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     • David de Groot

     @david How do you dispose of such things safely?

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     Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:23:59 JST Piggo :verified_horse:

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     • David de Groot
     • Tris Kerslake
     @Triskerslake @david there's nothing to blow up in these, unlike batteries, if it's not on fire, just take it outside and let it cool down
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     David de Groot (david@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:24:00 JST David de Groot

     Late afternoon excitement at work. Lea smelt smoke. We went to investigate, and I found a Lenovo 90W power brick in our workroom that was extremely hot, and smelly.

     Now disposed of.