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Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by valuearb on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:38PM (#24395205)
You’ve never dropped a phone into a toilet? I’ve done it at least a half dozen times.

It’s disgusting but I’m not tossing my phone away afterwards, UNLESS IT STOPS WORKING BECAUSE OF WATER FANSGE.

Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by grishka on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:57PM (#24395309)
> You’ve never dropped a phone into a toilet?

No and every time this comes up I'm having trouble imagining how exactly, physically, could that happen by accident.

Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by valuearb on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:04PM (#24395347)
I had shorts with pockets that made it feel like the phone was put away, but when I stood up they would catch the phone and tumble out.
Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by TeMPOraL on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:13AM (#24398268)
A shirt pocket. I've dropped a phone in the toilet twice and in a bathtub once this way - it slipped out of the pocket as I was bending to wash my hands or pick up the toilet cleaning brush.

(I've since then stopped carrying anything in open pockets above the waist.)

Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by colejohnson66 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @10:01PM (#24396092)
Sit on a toilet and hold a phone up near your face (not over the front of the toilet). It’s easy to see in this situation how a slippery phone or sweaty palms could cause the phone to fall down and between your thighs.
Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by imtringued on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:16AM (#24399213)
Solution: Think some "shower thoughts" during your bathroom break.
Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by davchana on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:26PM (#24395770)
Not OP, but just a data point, Only once in my 30+ years of life I have dropped my key ring into a toilet, a squat one, so unrecoverable. Otherwise 20+ years of squat & 10+ years of western toilet use, never ever anything has fallen from my hands or pockets into toilet.