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Unfortunately I don't get quiet morning hours for work these days. My work laptop is set up to show who's online, and there's no way I've found yet to prevent that aside from unplugging the network cable. Therefore my quiet morning hours simply don't involve anything for work that can't be done offline. I get a lot of reading done, mostly Stuart Woods, Randy Wayne White, John Sandford and Janet Evanovich these days.
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I haven't had anything go "clunk" in the washer recently, but I am routinely p***ed off when she leaves kleenex in pockets.
Most of my garments are cotton, which has a lovely "cling" factor for shredded tissue.
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Hate it when that happens! 
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And then she complains that YOU should of cleaned out HER pockets.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Found out many years ago the detergent will indeed destroy the phone. Tried washing phones at both 40 ang 60 degrees with the same result, so the detergent is the only thing in common of the two tests I can think off.
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No; it's the clothes that destroy the phone. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What was the dryer setting?
Clank clank …
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Good that it was your phone. If it was Mrs. Wife's phone, you would be in trouble.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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She wouldn't have noticed for a couple of weeks - it's normally flat as a pancake every time I check because she rarely uses it. She's on her tablets most of the time (one to play on, one charging).
I've got to replace her phone later this year as they are disconnecting 3G in January and it predates 4G ... 
That'll be fun: teaching her to unlock a new phone: "Fingerprint? Where's the ink pad?"
A Luddite I'm afraid. 
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Had to replace her old candybar with a 4G one when 2G shut down here.
She can unlock it (OK *), find numbers in the phonebook and call them, receive calls and that's about it.
Voicemail, SMS, camera, ... all gathering metaphorical dust.
I gave her a tablet, that she's now hooked on, so she's getting to find her way around Android and touch screens.
Screen lock is probably next year's lesson.
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Herself has a simple technique for using her phone: she grabs the nearest under 20 YO and gets them to call me on it ... 
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Good news: Fingerprints are already discontinued on many lines.
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OriginalGriff wrote: found my phone in the washer ... 
A friend of my daughter pushed her in her swimming pool last week. Guess who is to buy a new smartphone ?
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The friend's parent? 
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In theory, yes - But well, sh*t happens, they were playing, and I am not the kind to run after people for money. And my time is more valuable than the 10 hours to get the insurance working. So ... 
/edit : And I only buy cheapos phones to my kids just because of that.
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Rage wrote: I only buy cheapos phones to my kids
Very sensible! How do you convince them the cheap ones are fashionable enough? Parents everywhere want to know ...
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I tell my daughters that if they want the latest fashionable phone, they are welcome to buy it out of their saved pocket money.
Sanity prevails..
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I do not think phone fashion is still a thing - As long as they can snapchat/instagram/whatsapp/whatever like and with their friends, they are OK.
Maybe it could come later when power is needed for gaming or expensive phones are an attractiveness multiplicactor, but I am not there yet.
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There are waterproof cheapo phones around...
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It was one - turns out it cannot resist a swimming pool dive. The inside of the phone did not suffer water damage, but it seems the LCD display itself did not like water, could also be she hit it by falling.
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Did it go deep?
The pressure might do nasty stuff to a phone.
Reminds me that my old phone was only allowed to be used below 4000 m.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: below 4000 m
That's ... deep
She had it in her back pocket and she could stand in the pool, so not more than 2m deep for a couple of seconds.
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A quick check gives 1m for IP67 and 1.5m for IP68.
Those numbers are for 30minutes though.
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... ok, the rednote 10 is IP53, which is nowhere near "waterproof" ... so I might have overestimated the specs.
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Quote: Protected from water spray less than 60 degrees from vertical.
That means it's rain protected.
You probably want IP67 (Protected from immersion between 15 centimeters and 1 meter in depth.) or IP68 (Protected from long term immersion up to a specified pressure.)
I've noticed that the specified pressure is usually just marginally better than IP67
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