• FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Steam Deck owners to Valve: No.

    As a Steam Deck owner, I find the whole exhaust air thing hilarious because it smells like nothing but warm air to me. But others seem to have drastically different descriptions of it.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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        11 months ago

        It just means you need to find the right combination of other flavours to add to balance it out.

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    11 months ago

    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!

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    11 months ago

    I’ll steal/adapt a weird argument about eating animals:

    If Valve didn’t want people sniffing Steam Deck fumes, they wouldn’t have made them smell so good.

    Gaben spoke, and people listened.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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    11 months ago

    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!

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      11 months ago

      It’s probably off gassing aromatics from the molded plastics parts. Anything aromatic (in an organic chem context) is possibly carcinogenic. Past that its semi-volatile phthalates and other possible additives and light volatiles that may be off gassing especially from the unit’s heat generation/dissipation.

      Offgassing testing is common (think new car smell…Yeah unfortunately that’s carcinogenic too, but we’re testing for stuff now). I’m pretty surprised they didn’t either invest in the right types of plastics that wouldn’t have potentially toxic emissions…unless they did and didn’t care until someone noticed and spread the word.

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      11 months ago

      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

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      11 months ago

      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…

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    11 months ago

    If they didn’t want me to sniff the vent fumes, they shouldn’t have pointed the vent nearly at my face.

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    11 months ago

    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

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    11 months ago

    Look. The warm air feels excellent on my frozen nose. Let my dumb stoner ass enjoy it okay?