News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my lapt... by joe_the_user on Sunday August 16, 2009 @03:36PM (#766558)
A "space violation" which doesn't involve actual damage to something might be a matter of social/cultural etiquette. Different cultures have different distances that people stand apart from each other or different amounts of touching between friends and acquaintances.

But I think its always over-the-line when a touch can actual do some small amount of damage to the item - any touch to laptop screen is going to be reducing its lifetime at least a bit.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my lapt... by ewjordan on Sunday August 16, 2009 @05:54PM (#766830)
But I think its always over-the-line when a touch can actual do some small amount of damage to the item - any touch to laptop screen is going to be reducing its lifetime at least a bit. Bah. Well, in theory, maybe.

But can anyone here honestly say that they've ever had to get rid of a laptop even one day earlier than they would have anyways because of the damaging effects of finger oils on the screen? There are so many things in a laptop that degrade more quickly than the screen surface, I just don't think it's a very legitimate worry.

What's the worst case scenario from touching a laptop screen a lot, other than the minor annoyance of having to wipe the crap off from time to time?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my lapt... by __david__ on Sunday August 16, 2009 @06:01PM (#766844)
Reducing its lifetime? How on earth can a touch reduce the lifetime of your laptop lcd? The insides that actually create the pictures are separated by layers of plastic you know...
[ Parent | on HN ]