Why use phone when PC best?

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    What are you people doing to your phones? Since smartphones started being a thing I haven’t cracked a single screen, and yes I do drop them. Not daily, but it happens. Not onto concrete from the 4th floor either.

    Or: Maybe spend more than 100$ on a phone and it’ll actually be fine, cause it isn’t shit?

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      1 month ago

      My mother threw my phone out the window of the third floor once and a car drove over it … I could see all the screen but it was like split horizontally from a green and a red filter the touch worked only on the bottom half so I used to split screen with a useless app just so that the whole interested app stayed in the working area …I used the phone like that for a couple of months till i caught a bad glass splinter still have it in my finger today … 8 years later … I have more stories if you like …

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        1 month ago

        How do you know you still have the glass in your finger? Does it hurt still? Or do you just feel it

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          It’s on the tip of the finger so it doesn’t get pushed often and you have to get a specific angle to feal it sting a bit… Never properly found it, being glass it’s so hard to see and those shard are so tiny (something like windscreens with chunks and super small shards… ) yeah never spoke about that either… I feared taking “a beat” from my mother shes kinda old school 😅

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            1 month ago

            ugh those shards may start to wander, i’d get it checked out and removed. i had something similar as a child, but they x-rayed the finger, cut it up and got everything out

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      1 month ago

      I got a Pixel 8 after my past phone being an S9+. It turns out, so many people are smashing screens that they’ve softened Gorilla Glass, which means it doesn’t shatter as easy but scratches more. I had a scratch from putting it in my pocket on day 1. Now I understand why people use screen protectors when I never have needed one in the past.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve been barebacking an iPhone XS since launch and it’s been pretty resilient, tanking a few solid drops. The Batman iPhone 5 was the absolute nadir for every drop causing visible damage.

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      I’ve Only ever cracked one screen and it wasn’t by dropping it but by having the phone in my pocket with the screen pointing away from me while I used my hip to push a cart at work. It was only a very small hairline crack but the screen and touch stopped working.

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      1 month ago

      i was the same, stopped using cases and screen protectors altogether as nothing ever happened. then I’ve dropped my phone, fixed the screen, and broke it again a dew months later. i’m back to using cases, no streak lasts forever