Just thought of sharing this.
If you buy a new laptop bag, you have to be careful to remove the small sachets that contain small silica balls (or whatever they are. See photo).
I allowed them to remain in the bag (new one from American Tourister), the sachets broke, and the released silica balls entered the USB, HDMI, LAN and audio slots of the laptop.
While I could get rid of them from other slots, a nasty particle is still stuck in the 3.5 mm audio slot. (Because I didn’t know of it and pushed in the audio jack, which took the darn ball further down the slot)
So yes, remember to to remove such sachets from your laptop bag before you use them.
Sreekumar (KJ) has been a hobby programmer from school days. Codemarvels is his personal blog from the year 2010, where he writes about technology, philosophy, society and a bit about physics.
He now runs a conversational AI company – DheeYantra – focusing his efforts to help businesses improve operational efficiency using digital employees powered by AI.