its an apartment, so i assume the filter is covered in white paint.

I always find it fascinating that you guys still have dryer ducts, here in the Netherlands we only have condensation dryers since the last ten years or so. Newest is heat pump dryers which are also condensing, though I'm still not sure they are actually more energy efficient.

I tried to clean the filter in my dishwasher after having had it for a year or so.. unscrewed a bunch of stuff trying to find it.. ultimately turned to the internet for answers. Like why is this so goddamned difficult?

Turns out, some of them now (I bought this one about 10 years ago, it’s midrange at best) don’t have them, they have macerators, sort of like a tiny garbage disposal inside the dishwasher.

So that question isn’t always wrong.