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Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phones
www.engadget.com/2266522/why-steam-ruins-phone-more-than-water/posted in Technology
Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phones
www.engadget.com/2266522/why-steam-ruins-phone-more-than-water/Replying to @muelltonne@feddit.org
Why in the world would I bring the phone in the shower?
Replying to @mastertigurius@lemmy.world
I do it all the time. Before smart phones were a thing I had a water proof shower radio. Now I use the phone for the same thing. Mostly listening to news or a podcast or something. Sometime it’s a Nebula video, but in the shower I’d just be listening to it like a podcast anyway. Before phones were waterproof I used to use a waterproof Bluetooth speaker.
I’ve never had steam cause a problem, but then again my showers aren’t long, aren’t very hot and my phone is kept pretty high up and out of the way.
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
my showers aren’t long
So, why… oh, forget it.
Replying to @DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Everyone uses their phones while eating or pooping. Those activities don’t take long either. I choose to listen to something while showering.
It’s ok if you don’t understand it or do it yourself, but some people take their phone into the shower. It is a thing.
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
I like to sometimes take a break from my phone while pooping and read a product label, like the olden times
Would recommend every now and then
Replying to @BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip
Nah. I had to do that the other day and lemme tell you, shampoo bottles just don’t hit the same these days.
Replying to @athatet@lemmy.zip
They do feature a lot of exotic words I don’t understand
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
“Everyone” does not use their phone while eating or pooping. I make an effort to engage with mine as little as possible, in a perfect world checking it when I wake up when I get home and before bed. For me the phone is a weird mix of useful tool and addictive drug, almost impossible to drop entirely but very much worth limiting access to. Constant stimulation is certainly a choice you can make, but probably not a healthy one. I view what you’re doing the same way you might view someone saying they always drink a beer in the shower.
Replying to @moonshadow@slrpnk.net
This is some boomer shit
Replying to @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
Saying boomer shit about someone having a different point of view is the most boomer of shits…
Replying to @thumbtaxx@lemmy.world
They’re literally equating listening to a podcast from your phone in the shower with doing drugs/drinking beer.
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
Pooping takes forever 🥺 and please don’t say fiber. There’s no room left for more 💀
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
Everyone uses their phones while eating or pooping.
We do??
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
or pooping
Those activities don’t take long
That’s a strange assumption here
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
…or pooping. Those activities don’t take long either.
Speak for yourself.
Replying to @cRazi_man@europe.pub
You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker pretty cheap. Better sound and zero risk of anything happening to the phone. I love mine.