Something’s Growing in the Pool-Cooled PCs

Linus and the crew thought pool-cooling their LAN Center gaming rigs would be the ultimate chill hack—corrosion issues? Solved. But now the loop’s full of funky-smelling slime, and whatever’s living in there is thriving. Time to tear down the PCs, hunt down the biofilm, and figure out what’s causing that eau de swamp.

After draining and scrubbing every component, they even bring in the “death ray” heat blast to fry any microscopic squatters. It’s a messy, hands-on teardown with chemistry, blowtorches, and a lot of crossed fingers—yet the question remains: did it actually work?

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