David Gerardit is difficult to overstate what a comprehensive dunderhead Why from Bluesky, vibecoding wunderkind, formerly of various cryptocurrency projects and current neoreactionary VibeCamp habitue, truly is
in b4 some nerd links https://support.apple.com/en-us/108039 without mentioning the bit that explicitly says DO NOT DO THIS YOU IDIOT
[object Object]@davidgerard “uhm but David here’s 2 (two) videos of me dunking my phone into a small bowl of drinking water, no I won’t engage with you about how the point is that it killed the phone”
Luk@davidgerard I really take issue with Apple messaging on this, which is « hey, it’s probably fine whatever, but if that breaks that’s on you » as it touts a IP68 resistance which signals that it’s ok as long as you don’t leave it underwater too long
Dianne HackbornIsn't that just the message to users for everything now with AI? 😛
🏴🏳⚧🏴☠
mtc_ukpretty sure Why is getting by on people networking
a.k.a. bullshit ass kissing
Comrade elronxenu@davidgerard The page also says "maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes" and I have to wonder how this is in any way compatible with "do not intentionally submerge your phone in water".
@elronxenu i'd like to see what happens when you claim it under warranty
(but not to any phone of mine)
@davidgerard Just tell them it fell into the water and then claim it should have been ok due to IP68.
@elronxenu you first
Henryk Plötz@elronxenu @davidgerard This is basically the rating right after sale. Sealing will degrade over time and with stress. Heat-cycle it (charging) for a few months, drop it a couple of times, and, well, it's *probably* still fine, but no guarantees anymore. Applying extreme heat, like you would do when disassembling the glued parts, certainly will not help either.
@henryk @elronxenu yeah it's ip68*
gkrnours@henryk @elronxenu @davidgerard leaving it in the sun for a couple hour will also put significant stress on it
Major Denis Bloodnok@elronxenu @davidgerard Seems to depend on the model (which we don't know) but also "Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear", so I think they are saying it might survive but please don't try it...
spinnyspinlock@davidgerard who cares if it's waterproof, just what kind of thought process is this
Mrs.Malice ❤️🔥✨@spinnyspinlock @davidgerard one of all first thoughts, no second thoughts
duckbunny@davidgerard amazing
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@davidgerard impossible to overstate. There are people who couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
This guy is still trying to understand what water is, forget a boot, and might make some progress if he finally manages to develop object permanence.
@rootwyrm he is pretty sure object permanence is wokeism from shitlibs
@davidgerard goddamnit David, not when I'm drinking coffee. Coffee is valuable!
@davidgerard they are so deeply unintelligent, as are the people that hired and funded them, that simply being in proximity will cause severe brain damage to normal people.
I mean, these people are so utterly devoid of anything resembling sapience that they would give Elon Musk a run for his money in that department.
George BWhen I was 10 or so I was obsessed with pokemon. I dropped my Gameboy in the toilet when I was playing while peeing and then washed it off in the sink and tried to dry it on a candle.
Needless to say I completely ruined my Gameboy and felt like an idiot for years.
Seeing a full blown adult make basically the same mistake but in the other direction makes 10 year old me feel a lot better.
fraggle@gbargoud @davidgerard "tried to dry it with a candle" is exactly the kind of shit that 10 year old me would have tried too 😂
Loïc Denuzière@davidgerard I tried stuffing some meat into the charging port of my phone, but it still ran out of battery.
I eat burgers when I need energy, why can't my phone?
Magnus Ahltorp@tarmil @davidgerard It can, but then you have to take it to the toilet several times a day, otherwise it breaks.
James Henstridge@davidgerard water cooled PCs have been a thing for years. Is dunking your phone in the pool really so different?
@jamesh did you get as far as the post after this
sidereal@jamesh @davidgerard More like water cooled PCs have been leaking and needing to be replaced for years
Marianne@davidgerard I'm immediately incensed given I expect he makes at least 6x what I do.
Quinn AlexisWhen I stumbled across your post just now I thought it was a joke at first.
But apparently it's not? This guy and his posts are real???
@QuinnAlexis i am sorry to say
look up "Jeromy Johnson" in tech haunts for more unfettered brillance
Man, that's bizarre.
ben moretti@davidgerard @acb very clever
Jenny!@davidgerard surely they aren't serious
Angus McIntyre"I washed my parrot in Tide, and it died!”
"I told you Tide wasn't good for parrots.”
"Oh, it wasn’t the Tide that killed it, it was the spin-cycle.”
Same energy.
MacCruiskeen@angusm @davidgerard "it wasn't the airplane, it was beauty killed the beast."
Rycochet'Peasants, behold! My genius even more genius-y thanks to AI! I can genius even faster now! Also, uh oh spaghetti-o's, I dropped my phone in the pool on purpose again because I know better than the people who made it!'
Roamin' Chemicals@davidgerard water good human so why water not good phone?! Glue good paper so why not glue good pizza?? Stochastic token association good computer so why not good me? :(
Ember is so tired of people. 
@davidgerard why do i get the feeling "dip it in a pool" means just chucking it in
i've personally not had issues from gently washing my phone under the tap
@Ember we should be clear that whatever story he's telling here, this is the presentable version
Louisa@davidgerard Truly extinction-grade stupid.
@customdeluxe i fear these guys will never die out
@davidgerard i'm starting to think the real techbro agenda is to somehow prevent natural selection.
@customdeluxe eugenicists are all like that, it keeps resulting in them not being at the top (or alive)
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️And now that this is online and if it goes viral AI is going to retrieve it see it used often and quote it back to somebody as a go to solution.
Simon newslttrs.com@davidgerard my iPhone overheated so I yeeted it into low earth orbit ‘cause Elon Musk told me it’s a great place for efficient heat dissipation. It might have worked but I can’t see the screen from here.
Driftini@davidgerard LMFAO???
Moses Izumi@davidgerard
This reads even more like a Dankpods mic test than Advait Paliwal's screed about horses.
This reads even more like a Dankpods mic test than Advait Paliwal's screed about horses.
Kyna@davidgerard It's the same mix of arrogance and ignorance that techbros chose to put into their AI.
Nini@davidgerard Sounds like the sort of person whose hubris has only caused temporary shame because their wealth insulated them from their ignorance.
Hannu@davidgerard holy fuck lmao
The Orange Theme@davidgerard They just be letting anybody have kids, don't they.
🐻 John@davidgerard Isn't "water + electronics = BAD" one of the first safety rules you learn as a kid. Why are there people defending this
kat@davidgerard this shit really does turn you into a bumbling fool
🍫🥛Choccy Malk
Willow :bhjflag_bisexual::anarchy_punk_demiboy:@davidgerard "nah these things are waterproof"
against fucking rain, the little water droplets that fall on the screen, not dipping the phone in a body of water and letting it flow inside ports 
against fucking rain, the little water droplets that fall on the screen, not dipping the phone in a body of water and letting it flow inside ports
luna aria ielenia 
(🇨🇦 again 19 March)@witix @davidgerard to be fair many modern phones are IP68 or thereabouts and are thus rated to survive full submersion in water
@davidgerard @witix based on them saying they need an apple store im going to guess that their phone is one of those