• Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    I used to have a perfectly working system with a waterproof bag-thing for the phone and a bluetooth speaker somewhere outside of the shower so I could watch youtube videos while just chilling in the shower.

    Also had one of those long 1920s cigarette holders so I could smoke a joint in there. I made a good time out of it.

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      1 hour ago

      Always wild concept to me. People bringing their $1000 electronics into an environment not made for them. Like come on, how long are you in the shower, do you really need to be entertained while washing your body?

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        7 minutes ago

        I’ve noticed an increasing number of people that use their phone the entire time they’re at the urinal in public restrooms. This takes what? A minute tops? I’ve also seen people set it next to the sink to keep looking while washing their hands…assuming they even do to begin with.

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      Back before smartphones, when everyone was bleaching the tattletale to get the phone warrantied after getting even a little water near it, there was a rumor going around. Kids with friends in Japan were hearing that people over there had waterproof cellphones and would be talking while in the shower. We were super jealous, not for shower talking, but for the feature. I’d think ICP rated phones today should be able to handle some humidity.

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        1 hour ago

        There are Insane Clown Posse rated phones!? I need one of those because I keep killing mine because I spill Faygo on it.

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        when everyone was bleaching the tattletale to get the phone warrantied after getting even a little water near it,

        This sentence fragment really threw me for a loop lol… It took a minute, but I got there eventually.

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      5 hours ago

      Can’t give your wife any chance on reading texts of you hitting on other women.

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        4 hours ago

        Notthst I’m cheating with other women (seriously who can be bothered) my phone is locked with my fingerprint. As much as we share a lot in life I have not given her copies of my fingerprints so she couldn’t unlock the phone anyway. In theory she knows the passcode but since she asks me for it every single time she needs to use my phone I’m recently confident she doesn’t retain it.

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    9 hours ago

    Sad, that the recommendation is “use Bluetooth speakers instead, which are more expendable” instead of “are safe to use”.

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      UE BOOM speakers are safe to use in a humid bathroom during a shower. I’m pretty sure.

      They sound fucking fantastic too.

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      4 hours ago

      I used to have a waterproof Bluetooth speaker, but it was actually better than having your phone with you since it was right there in the shower.

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    11 hours ago

    It is pretty amazing to me that some people really have to be told not to bring their expensive electronics into the shower. It’s the shower, just wash your dirty ass and get out.

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      9 hours ago

      Tbf, since I have done this some 2-3 times:

      Some special shampoos require you to be sitting there for like 10 minutes until it does its thing. I thought it was safe since water was no longer coming out of the shower, I didn’t consider the high humidity environment.

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        8 hours ago

        Why not use that time to soap up and rinse off your body while you wait for the shampoo to do its thing? That’s what I do.

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      9 hours ago

      I find it meditative… washing the nooks, rinsing, etc. I do, sometimes, run music outside on a counter with a door open.

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    9 hours ago

    Why don’t these shower-phone people just get a much cheaper and more durable waterproof speaker? I get wanting music or a podcast or whatever but I can’t imagine how I would watch a video with all the soap and water everywhere

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    7 hours ago

    Is this the same for baths?

    Although water temperature for my bath is hotter than for my showers, it seems to me less steam comes off a bath.

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      4 hours ago

      I guess the water in the shower is aerosolized by the high speed impact so perhaps baths are better. I don’t imagine the water temperature makes much of a difference since its presumably not 100°c

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      14 hours ago

      Me. I have a phone mount installed in the shower. I need my dopamine receptors to be constantly stimulated from artificial sources, or I can’t accomplish basic tasks like cleaning/showering/cooking. Executive Dysfunction is a bitch.

      People with normal dopamine levels just can’t relate, so I get a lot of flack and am often called lazy. Which is annoying as hell because I genuinely want to be a functioning adult, but my stubborn brain just refuses to let me accomplish anything without external stimulation. It’s torture being labeled something you’re not, just because someone can’t understand what it’s like when your brain won’t make the reward chemicals on its own. But it is what it is.

      Also BTW I’ve been doing this for a decade and only once has a phone actually died on me from water damage. So I don’t worry about it. I’m clumsy so I always have an insurance plan for my phones regardless…

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        13 hours ago

        Is that not something that meds like Ritalin can help with, like ADHD? Or is it different?

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          11 hours ago

          Stimulants like Adderall, PEA, Octodrine, and Propylhexedrine are a half decent band-aid, but they raise my blood pressure and make me feel “tweaky” so I don’t want to take them every day. They feel like they’re slowly killing me. I mean imagine taking meth every single day. That’s what it feels like for me. Unfortunately since tolerance builds rapidly, I have to take massive doses for it to continue working, further compounding the problem.

          So I try not to take stims more than a few times a month, because even once a week is too much for me. It sucks ass that there’s no long-term solution for ADHD. Just temporary fixes that rapidly stop working.

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            It sucks ass that there’s no long-term solution for ADHD. Just temporary fixes that rapidly stop working.

            There is exciting research being done in metabolic psychiatry looking at ADHD in fat adapted people. There is a ongoing study (https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN62698625) but there is a good expectation they will see sustained results, this is inline with Dr. Georgia Ede’s metabolic strategy in Change your Diet Change your mind. The study authors gave a interview 2 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAbqXcSAzg , so maybe we will see the results published soon.

            infographic of change your diet, change your mind

            TLDR - metabolism and brain energy appear to be the core of many psychiatric conditions, so its worth trying a fat burning metabolism for 30 days and see if it improves your ADHD.

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            Man adderall gave me psychosis that landed me in a mental hospital. I’m also a non functional adult and I’m trying to unfuck my document situation here in Hell America. I do agree that yeah; stimulants are bad especially if you are like me. Who is prone to bouts of insanity because on stims you really can’t really control your own thoughts anymore. It’s a terrifying experience and honestly it’s not that that uncommon to have ADD or ADHD and be a bit psychotic. Especially worse with the OCD that I used to have with it. But you know at least I had a super friendly dog and grandparents to take care of me and a Nintendo Switch. I got over it eventually but I never wanna go through that experience ever again. Though I do appreciate having the ability to sleep for an entire year essentially through a winter. Being in a dark room also helped a lot. It kinda feels like a fever dream when I remember it now though. I should probably go back on anti psychotics after my most recent break with stimulants. Shame I don’t have money or health insurance.

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    10 hours ago

    Waterproof ≠ Heatproof, and it also doesn’t guarantee chemicals and other impurities won’t wreck your phone. I took my old phone into the ocean a few times because we didn’t have lockers on the beach and no rental car to leave stuff in. It was rated waterproof and it survived, but it didn’t want to charge for quite a while and getting the salt and sand out of the usb-c port was tedious.

    My fitness watch is as happy in the pool swimming laps as it is anywhere else. I do take it off in the shower though because I don’t want to clean soap scum off it or have water trapped between the watch and my wrist. It sounds like I may be inadvertently saving the battery!

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      Waterproof ≠ Heatproof

      Also Waterproof ≠ Waterproof. Found that out the hard way with my pixel, I was taking some pictures by the pool, it went in the water, broken and no warranty for liquid damage.

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      Forgetting I had my phone in my pocket, I got in to a 105 F hot tub. I immediately realized and got it out of water. It was already glitching out and dying. That IPX rating does not respect heat!

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      13 hours ago

      But how else am I going to use the app for my shower’s water temperature and pressure and massage pattern and RGB lighting?

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    Add me to the list of people who just learned that anybody takes their phone into the shower regularly.

    From reading the comments though, it seems to be a mix of phone/stimulation-addicted people and people who aren’t. But I’m skeptical of those who claim they aren’t.