Exactly! ‘My headphones are so quiet now, could the speaker be dying?’ is something we got all the time. Most of the time when people clean their headphones, all the do is take a wipe or a brush (if you’re lucky alcohol) and clean the outside of the mesh. Half the time all they’re doing is pushing earwax through the mesh so you get a nice little wax puck when you open them up.

It’s gross, but it did feel good to be able to tell people they didn’t need new headphones, we just cleaned them for $15.

In their defense, properly cleaning headphones is kinda hard, especially wireless earbuds.

Source : Used to work at an electronics repair shop that cleaned stuff, and even clean ‘looking’ (aka externally clean) headphones can have some disgusting junk on the inside.

Who is bringing gas inside? I’m struggling to come up with even one legitimate reason to bring gasoline inside.

I had a roommate who reviewed and scored responses for Google Bard. A ton of it was people generating posts for whatever business/crypto/alpha-male grift they were running. The main thing though was really really specific fetish stuff.