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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 13:02:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Not once in 14 years have I thought "ugh I wish my phone had splash or immersion water resilience".
   
   I've had only two acquaintances drop their phone in water and one of them was so drunk at the time thay he also flushed it because he thought it wouldn't flush and he could pick it up from cleaner water.
   
   IP-whatever rating is a pure marketing gimmick unless you work as a plumber or something.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 14:41:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke When #sonTwo was young enough that replacing or repairing his phone was my responsibility, immersion resistance and impact resistance were things I looked for. He once dropped a phone from a balcony at school. It landed in a puddle of water. Was it the fall or the water that killed it? I don't know, but it cost me money to replace it.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:54:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Luci for Chai Tea
     @zens I just saw someone comment that Fairphone was hopeless because it wasn't immersion resistant and like, excuse me internet person, 10-15 years ago none of them except twice-as-expensive models for rough use were.
     
     But yeah, if you plop phones all the time or want peace of mind, know yourself I guess, and don't buy a Fairphone.
     
     I didn't expect to find people clumsier than me! I do it in dreams too, just not in real life. 😁
   • Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:54:21 UTC Luci for Chai Tea

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     @clacke just because *you* are not clumsy doesn’t mean this isn’t amazing for anyone else

   • Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:54:22 UTC Luci for Chai Tea

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     @clacke i regularly had nightmares about getting my full body immersed in water and ruining my new phone in my pocket.
     having a water resistant phone gives me peice of mind.

     asside from dropping them in water a couple times and they survived

   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:54:26 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     @clacke
     My partner regularly killed phones with liquids, an unsealed phone around him was a disaster. So I suppose it varies.

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   • Gob-scale Tessalation (eryn@toot.cat)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:55:07 UTC Gob-scale Tessalation

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     • f.rift :fire_blue:

     @feonixrift @clacke and while your environment may be conducive to juggling a fragile glass rectangle that will become inoperable from a splash of wet, there's quite a lot of agriculture, fishing, and forestry enthusiasts who really cannot use a device with such narrow limits on use.

     Current gen smartphones are designed to fail, and a bit of waterproofing certainly is not going to fix that...just making the point that your 14 years are pretty darn small of an observation window if you can't see a use for it by some, at least.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 17:55:07 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • f.rift :fire_blue:
     • Gob-scale Tessalation
     @eryn @feonixrift Yeah I acknowledged "plumber or something". =)
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:00:43 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Leif Lindholm
     @unixsmurf I guess I know more people that needed it than I thought!
   • Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:00:44 UTC Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     I want my phones rain and spillage proof.
     It has saved them, and not just from my own mistakes.

   • アズラ: 大キツネ (azure@tailswish.industries)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 18:04:25 UTC アズラ: 大キツネ

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     @clacke I've spent enough time running around in the rain that everything on me has got absolutely soaked, so I like both my phone and my headset still working.
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   • valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 19:19:47 UTC valhalla

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     @clacke I've had a phone (not smart, it was quite a few years ago) die when I had it in my backpack during a bit of rain (one of the worst rains I've been into, I have to admit) while traveling (so no access to the usual drying methods afterwards).
     
     Replacing it wasn't that expensive, so it wasn't a big deal, but for a smartphone that costs significantly more than that I wouldn't mind it to be able to survive an heavy rain.
     
     Also, reading books on the phone in the bath, anybody? :D
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