• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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          5 days ago

          Nah I get these weird things that look like greasy dust filaments on the walls.

          • Damage@feddit.it
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            Nope, never happened to me, in any of my abodes. Are you American? Maybe it’s a wood house thing?I get balls of dust and hair in areas that are hard to clean, like under low furniture, but I’ve never seen strings

            • percent@infosec.pub
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              American here. I get them in my brick house.

              (Though it’s a big country that spans many different climates and biomes, so the experiences of the few do not represent the experiences of the many)

          • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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            one can tell the difference by the strength and weight, spider silk is strong as fuck and doesn’t really float in the air, whereas dust strings have 0 resistence and will float around on the slightest air current.

            • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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              Well I mean these dust strings look nothing like something a spider would bother pulling out its ass, you know?

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      Neither have I. Sure I wipe the wall if I accidentally splatter coffee (like today, argh) or smash a bug on it. But mine are pretty smooth and the dust can only be a thin layer before it falls off. Thirty years later they’re still white.

    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social
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      If you find them to be dusty you can do it. If you don’t have a problem, then you probably don’t need to bother