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Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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NSFH warning! Take the title literally. I interpreted the title as "Webapp that creates natural water sound using your phone", so I clicked the play button without realizing this is NOT a water sound. This is a tone that is played which expels water that got into the phone from the speaker, using the outward pressure created by the tone. Really cool idea.

FWIW, check out myNoise https://mynoise.net/

this is cool! Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

I'd pick it up. Pee and poo washes off and phones are expensive, not to mention non-trivial to replace.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

A phone is ten to twenty hours of minimum wage, and probably a few hundred kilograms of CO2. Not to mention the stuff stored on it. Of course I'd pick it up.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

Have and did. Got lucky as it chugged along fine for a couple of years more after.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

A phone is ten to twenty hours of minimum wage, and probably a few hundred kilograms of CO2. Not to mention the stuff stored on it. Of course I'd pick it up.

More like 100-200 hours of minimum wage if it’s a nice phone.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

Spot the soy boy.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy%20Boy

Try working on a farm someday. (HN glamorizes farming, but working half a day on one is a good reality check.)

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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NSFH warning! Take the title literally. I interpreted the title as "Webapp that creates natural water sound using your phone", so I clicked the play button without realizing this is NOT a water sound. This is a tone that is played which expels water that got into the phone from the speaker, using the outward pressure created by the tone. Really cool idea.

Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!

You're technically not supposed to submerge your iPhone; it voids their warranty. (It drives me mad that they do this in their advertisements, but I guess showing people doing things that would void their device's warranty is not false advertising…)

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

Even if I don't want the phone anymore, I definitely don't want to leave it for a plumber.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

What alternative is there to picking it up? Flushing it down the drain?

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

Yes. The trick is to realize that human hands can safely be washed afterwards. Not to mention there are worse things inside the tummy than whats inside the toilet.
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