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Both of my parents have accidentally submerged their phones. My moms actually took a dip in the Atlantic ocean, but after 24 hours of sitting in a bucket of rice it worked fine for another 2 years (which was unfortunate, it was a real piece of poo poo). Dads only lasted a month before it crapped out after its toilet adventure though. I haven't tested any of my phone's swimming abilities, thankfully. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Depending on how the phone was waterlogged I've been able to save them to varying degrees (water skiing yes, full immersion no). The rice trick has never ever worked for me, though. The logic is reasonably sound, but honestly if you have the wherewithal to take your phone apart, even partially, putting it under an incandescent light bulb is going to be a better plan. Hosing it down with board cleaner and then under some heat even better than that.
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Oct 29, 2014 16:29
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Saves many a phone. Pull the battery, soak it with 90% isopropyl alcohol and set it in a warm spot. Let it sit for a few days.
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Oct 29, 2014 16:38
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Viggen posted:Someone actually paid for him to post? That is sad. Like.. beyond Ion ownership sad. 
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Oct 29, 2014 16:50
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I've completely submerged and saved an iPhone 3G and 5, along with Lenovo and Samsung netbooks. The battery Lenovo died, and the battery iPhone 5 refused to charge above 20% afterwards, though. All of them were dropped in rivers while switched on. Despite that one of my colleagues managed to kill a ruggedised, £4000 bit of kit that is designed to be used in rivers by getting it wet.
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Oct 29, 2014 17:04
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It works well enough, the screen is splotchy but everything works well. I only want it to last another two weeks or so. I don't like it much but I'd rather have it around for the remainder of my 30 days.
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Oct 29, 2014 17:24
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Sorry about your cat Horse Divorce. One of my mom and dad's cats had to be put to sleep over the weekend and it sucked hard even though it was time. She was 18 and her kidneys were failing, but she was still active and happy until the last week or so. She was my buddy growing up so I'm gutted that she's gone.
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Oct 29, 2014 17:34
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I managed to save a laptop that got soaked by yanking out the battery asap then tossing it and the computer in a bin of rice. Put the bin on top of the dryer then ran a few loads on high. Thing worked for a year or so after. Didn't get submerged but I'd guess a gallon of water poured over it. I know Spintires is old news but it's on sale right now on Steam. I bought a copy and look forward to getting stuck in the mud from the comfort of my couch while drinking this afternoon. Loading ~2500lb server racks today, 5 down and many many more to go.
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Oct 29, 2014 17:36
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Tusen Takk posted:There are very few things more shameful than ION ownership True, true. NitroSpazzz posted:I know Spintires is old news but it's on sale right now on Steam. I bought a copy and look forward to getting stuck in the mud from the comfort of my couch while drinking this afternoon. I read this as SpinRite. 
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Oct 29, 2014 18:11
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Viggen posted:It was some stupid NeuGBS thing which was all the rage during GBS 1.0. New user registration, and someone makes a fawning post about the person, and the rest of the retards and rejects follow suit. It was kinda funny with airdisc, since he was the first, but if there were times after that... yeah, not funny anymore. Showing my regdate here, sorry.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:17
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Lost power at work so they sent us home for the day. I have no idea what I am going to do with myself for the rest of the day because everyone else is at work.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:50
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So at my university we just recently got a new CIO, and I heard he had a "barely street legal race car" and he was driving it on campus impressing everyone. I found his facebook and saw these, he said it was a 917k:  He meant Fiero 917k, right?
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Oct 29, 2014 18:57
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mariooncrack posted:Lost power at work so they sent us home for the day. Upgrade your laptops' wireless? 
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Oct 29, 2014 19:09
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All the class of a 917 with all the sass of a Fiero. 
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Cage posted:
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Looks like an ugly(er) Coyote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMAfwJSfKw
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Depending on how the phone was waterlogged I've been able to save them to varying degrees (water skiing yes, full immersion no). The rice trick has never ever worked for me, though. I dropped my Droid X in the toilet (clean, no pee/poo) and it took 3 days of drying, but it came back and worked fine for another two years.
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Oct 29, 2014 19:29
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Viggen posted:Upgrade your laptops' wireless? Mail isn't here yet.
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Oct 29, 2014 19:51
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Bah. I messed up with my FLIR One when I initiated a "thermal event" with the old iphone 5 battery I replaced. I bent the battery enough to rupture it inside and watched it heat up with the FLIR. Those damned batteries get HOT... it pegged the FLIR at 212*, probably not a lot over that, since it cooled down rapidly shortly thereafter, but it was surprising to see how hot it actually got, especially since it was mostly discharged and had little capacity left. Super fun to watch with infrared, though.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:08
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angryhampster posted:Getting annoyed with this 1400-2300 shift. I feel your pain. My primary poo poo at the hospital is now 1400-0000 and I hate the hours. I am a Morning person and would rathe go back to getting up at 0430 and work 0600-1600 like I have been for the past few months covering maternity leave. But I really like pediatrics so I guess I will stick with it until a day spot comes available.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:21
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Every month I have one or two 2000-0500 shifts and those are the best shifts ever
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Oct 29, 2014 20:24
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I opened up and baked my old iPhone 5 in a bag of rice for a few hours in the oven after it went through a full wash and extra rinse cycle. I worked fine for 6 months after and the. I traded in when I switched to verizon for like $500. Suckers lol.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:31
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If you drop your phone in water, you should pull the battery and rinse it out with distilled water before drying it to remove impurities/salts from whatever you dropped it in which can short circuit it if they're conductive. Rice works wells because its hygroscopic. You can also save the silica desiccant that you get with a lot of different things, bake it for awhile and reuse it for whatever. It will do a much better job than rice.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:38
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After three weeks with another adult, a screaming 2 year old and an old large dog staying in our house, in addition to the group of us who live here since it's our home, it's gotten to be a bit of a strain. Helping friends-in-need is good, in theory, but it does have its costs.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:11
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Stealth Like posted:If you drop your phone in water, you should pull the battery and rinse it out with distilled water before drying it to remove impurities/salts from whatever you dropped it in which can short circuit it if they're conductive. Rice works wells because its hygroscopic. You can also save the silica desiccant that you get with a lot of different things, bake it for awhile and reuse it for whatever. It will do a much better job than rice. That's pretty hard to do with a modern phones, since most of them have non-replaceable batteries. "Wait a minute, let me just get out my screwdrivers" *Plunges both hands into toilet*
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Stealth Like posted:If you drop your phone in water, you should pull the battery and rinse it out with distilled water before drying it to remove impurities/salts from whatever you dropped it in which can short circuit it if they're conductive. Rice works wells because its hygroscopic. You can also save the silica desiccant that you get with a lot of different things, bake it for awhile and reuse it for whatever. It will do a much better job than rice. you can get a tub of damp-rid in the RV section at walmart. I think it's the same stuff.
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My phone is IP67 rated  I bought it because any phone I own has automatically been given a death sentence. So far I've only smashed the laminated surface of the touch screen. Touch screen still worked perfectly if you don't mind dragging your finger over shards of broken glass. The windscreen RTV is still holding the new touch screen in well. Spent some money I shouldn't have on a couple of Steam keys for Borderlands 2. I figure price per hours of entertainment it's pretty good value. We got it for the 360 ages back but I couldn't cope with the menus in splitscreen. From calm to rage in seconds. So, we're going to play through on PCs. partially because the pre-sequel is off limits until 2 is done. After watching a review of the pre-sequel and instantly recognizing most of the voice actors that did it for me. Can't touch games yet though. The last couple of weeks has been brutal and it's not over yet. Plus my graphics card seems to be taking a poo poo. Goddamnit I can't afford another one any time soon 
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Oct 29, 2014 21:52
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I just resigned myself to the fact that I will nuke a phone every 6 to 9 months and have retarded requirements for my phones so I buy $50 droid 3s off ebay and back up my photos regularly. Problem solved. Do not recommend me a phone I should buy. Seriously.
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kastein posted:I just resigned myself to the fact that I will nuke a phone every 6 to 9 months and have retarded requirements for my phones so I buy $50 droid 3s off ebay and back up my photos regularly. Problem solved. I hear Iphone 6 pluses are the ticket. Think about all them extra inches where you need it most.
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meatpimp posted:After three weeks with another adult, a screaming 2 year old and an old large dog staying in our house, in addition to the group of us who live here since it's our home, it's gotten to be a bit of a strain. We moved out to my wife's grandparents a while back because her grandpa's health was poo poo to begin with, he's been living on the bleeding edge of medical technology for the past 13 years. He was supposed to live 6 months 13 years ago, in any case his heart went down to about 20% effectiveness so he couldn't run his ranch anymore since he had to focus on health. We were selling our house anyway so we moved that direction to get him back on his feet so he can take care of the ranch again.. Needless to say that hasn't happened yet, but at least his heart is up to between 50-60% and running a ranch is just another kind of management except your subordinates are bovine. In any case, I hear you on the strain part, though in our case we've learned to co-exist so it's not that bad now. What is bad though is learning to live with more people after you've been on your own for 20 years, that's a really loving steep learning curve, especially when they have the old mind set of gently caress it let things run all night. Little things just get on my nerves like leaving doors open and running the heating/air conditioning, leaving the tv on blaring all night long while he sleeps. We got them from a roughly $800 monthly gas/electric bill down to about $250 which is pretty drat good for an older house that's 3,500 sq ft. Weird how just turning poo poo off when you're done will do that, huh? I also got a roku 3 for both the living room and his bedroom so he can plug into the remote when he's up all night pacing from insomnia so sound problem solved as well. Unfortunately the only internet we get out there is from a wisp, fortunately it's unlimited because he chewed through 487GB in 1 month from watching Netflix/TED/discovery channel/PBS (antique road show motherfuckers!). He watched Lost the whole series in 2 weeks, no poo poo. The man has amazing tv show retention, but can't tell you poo poo from shinola otherwise about anything unless it specifically interests him like watching his tv shows. He's my own personal tv suggestion service with about 90% accuracy about what I'd like or wouldn't like to watch so that's pretty cool. It's put a damper on some plans such as taking a careers in the bay, but it's the thing of do you say gently caress you or take care of family because you see how that could potentially be yourself some day. In any case, her grandma is pretty cool but just stays to herself. Her grandpa can be an rear end in a top hat, but hey so can I so it's a mutual assholishness just for fun on occasion so it works. He's use to everybody doing what he says just to shut him up and I challenge him, but he always laughs when I push back, as a result we get along better and I go on drives with him when he feels anxious when his meds are off. Last I checked he's down from 46 to 34 pills a day. For AI content, they use to own a go-kart track, batting cages, bumper boats and some canoe rentals at the local waterslides/lake until 10 years ago so we do have a barn full of that stuff. I've been getting go-karts up here and there 1 at a time, but I need to outfit them with some knobbies for the dirt so they'll be actually usable. All have Honda engines so they're drat near bulletproof, I want to say there are 13 go-karts total out there, but I've only got 3 up and running in the past year. I've thought about setting up a pitching machine for our cocker spaniel but he's too goddamn retarded and would run himself to death, though I could rig a timer up I suppose. Anyway, didn't mean to post a wall of text, but yeah, living with people can definitely have its challenges, but you just have to look for the good distractions.
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i never knew these were available with out leather http://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/4736547684.html
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meatpimp posted:After three weeks with another adult, a screaming 2 year old and an old large dog staying in our house, in addition to the group of us who live here since it's our home, it's gotten to be a bit of a strain. A good buddy of mine was forced to move his wife and newborn child into his parents home due to the wife mismanaging their funds. The stress and friction between his wife and mother after less than 3 months forced them to move to a crappy part of town for the cheapest rent they could find. The marriage ended 3 months after that.
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kastein posted:I just resigned myself to the fact that I will nuke a phone every 6 to 9 months and have retarded requirements for my phones so I buy $50 droid 3s off ebay and back up my photos regularly. Problem solved. Not going to. But this is mine. Bought it used like most of my phones because they'll get killed. Not a fantastic phone but it does what I need and most importantly it's IP rated. http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_defy+-4098.php
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Went to the witch doctor about my hip pain. It's possibly my sciatic nerve. The development of this pain coincides with me DDing the Miata this year, she thinks the lower seating position might be the cause. Today was the last day for driving it this year so hopefully this pain goes away quickly.
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I just had a seriously good workout...today is a heavy day of squats, deadlifts and bench (two sets of twelve reps in each exercise then add weight for one set of five), and I set personal bests in every one of them once again - been setting them now every week for the last eight weeks. Not only am I feeling pretty good now, if last week is any indication I won't even be sore for tomorrow's workout; hot yoga, where I am the only guy in a class of a dozen or so twenty- and thirty-somethings. 
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Garmin's website kinda sucks, does anyone know which ones allow you to put in custom routes? (or another brand if it's better).
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MrChips posted:I just had a seriously good workout...today is a heavy day of squats, deadlifts and bench (two sets of twelve reps in each exercise then add weight for one set of five), and I set personal bests in every one of them once again - been setting them now every week for the last eight weeks. Not only am I feeling pretty good now, if last week is any indication I won't even be sore for tomorrow's workout; hot yoga, where I am the only guy in a class of a dozen or so twenty- and thirty-somethings. Out of no where coughing my lungs out and feel like poo poo...wonderful. Huge project starts Monday and I really need to be at work tomorrow. Yay FU body.
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I read that just as I was ripping open a package of "Triple Double" Oreos. I'm still going to eat them, I'm just going to feel bad about myself while I do it.
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What's a good, free image program that will let me add the time-stamps to pictures so I can print them with that information? Need to fight a ticket tomorrow.
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