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I'm about to move out of my nasty grandpa's house back to college, his house is full of roaches.. while i kept the room i was sitting in clean, they still came in and i'm pretty sure they are in my laptop by now, since i've seen a couple of small ones arround it. Wtf should i do? I don't want to infest my dorm with roaches.

>> No.1978851

>>1978847
blast it with piss

>> No.1978864

>>1978847
Your best option is to crack the laptop open and clean it by hand. You'll only need isopropyl alcohol since that can both kill roaches and clean debris out. Make sure to get absolutely everything clean of any "dirt" you find. That "dirt" is a combination of roach feces and eggs, which will hatch later on even if you clean out all the live ones.

Also double check your power brick. Roaches love warn electronics, so power supplies and graphics cards are their favorite.

>> No.1978906
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1978906

>>1978847
Purge it in Holy Fire

>> No.1978908

>>1978906
You preach brother

>> No.1979224

lol seal it in a bag for however long roaches live

>> No.1979228

>>1979224
That's one year on average.

>> No.1979237

>>1978847
I bought a ps2 slim from some Mexican in Illinois, where roaches are not common, awhile back and it was filled with dead small roaches. What the fuck.

>> No.1979245

Buy the Norton add on for roaches

>> No.1979265

>>1979224
>>1979228

If you vacuum seal the bag, anything alive (that breathes anyway) should be dead within two weeks. The eggs can take two months to hatch. Also, bitches are born pregnant (they breed to impregnate the next generation) so you have to wait out two more cycles. So, with vacuum seal, everything should be hatched and dead in 5 months.

>> No.1979270

>>1978864
Make sure it's 99% iso. Its non conductive and evaporates quickly.

>> No.1979347

>>1978847
Copy your data, wipe it, give it to someone you hate
buy another one

>> No.1979401

>>1978847
all you guys complaining about electronics with roaches in them did any of you find a immortal gub ? its a rare genetic disorder that happens some times with bugs. they are typically found inside electronics where a little egg sack was left. they do not develop . they do not eat. its some bizaro fluke where its combining proteins and folding them internally and recycling water internally but they dont grow and can live for decades with no food or water. its uncertain what causes it speifically but since they are almost always found inside electronics a theory is that the electric noise in the device is partially to blame but the only reason you find any is that bugs in your house reproduce thousands of times a year so its still like 1 in a billion that it happens

its also theorized that most of them are roaches despite roaches never having a larval worm stage. their growth is limited to the volume of protein in the egg and they kind of bloat up. since the exoskeleton is mostly protein they appear to grow but really is a redistribution of material and mass wise they are stable

>> No.1979560

>>1978847

You can dunk the laptop into a solution with cockroach killer inside it, shouldn't damage the laptop at all. Another solution is to yell at cock roaches inside the laptop to leave.

>> No.1979566

Your laptop is the only thing? Just leave it in god freezer for a day 2 to make sure and any more just for paranoia. Make sure it’s in the coldest temp.

>> No.1979606

>>1978847
Put laptop into 5 gallon lidded bucket. Take mess to local paintball shop/field.
Have them fill bucket with nitrogen. Affix lid.

Nitrogen will displace all air/O2 in the bucket, and the laptop. Insects will expire.

Barring Nitrogen, use CO2, which they will also have. Or obtain dry ice.

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1979646

>>1979606
best answer yet! lol at most others

>> No.1979648

>>1979401
what the fuck

>> No.1979767

>>1978847
You need to run the debugger.

>> No.1979875

>>1978847
throw it away, it's not worth it

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1979940

>>1978847
fumigate all your possessions, I'm sure there was a product available for that made by renowned company
and yes, I'm serious
get big plastic box with seal and fumigate stuff you move

>> No.1980245

Surprised no one has mentioned diatomaceous earth. It fucking murders roaches, the microscopic shards shred their waxy exoskeleton and they die. I had an awful roach infestation in an apartment once and dusted my kitchen with diatomaceous earth then left for a month and came back to no more roaches.

>> No.1980296

>>1980245
Not op but this seems like its useful for southern areas that just typically have roaches. Is it safe to throw this shit in damp areas such as under the sink and other misc. places? Surround the perimeter of my house or something?

>> No.1980558

>>1979401
Is this a real thing?

>> No.1980573

>>1980245
Won't work INSIDE a laptop. The dust will fuck up the bearings of anything that moves in there. Otherwise it's a good bug killer.

>>1980296
It's basically calcium so sure but it won't work after it gets soaked.