Why use phone when PC best?

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months 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?

    • DNOS@lemmy.ml
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      2 months 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 ...

      • Baguette@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

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

        • DNOS@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          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 😅

          • ben_dover@lemmy.ml
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            2 months 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

    • ben_dover@lemmy.ml
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      2 months 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

    • degen@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      Oh man, I remember a friend having a heavy duty OtterBox. We were hanging out in the campus stadium and lobbing it as far as we could... That same night someone did a trustfall from the goal post. We had fun.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    That's why I buy phones which are repairable and don't shatter when you sneeze too violently.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    It's that still a problem? I have had the same not premium phone for 4 or 5 years, without a case or screen protector, and I drop this motherfucker all the time and the screen is fine. It has big crack on the back, though, but so do I.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    I used to use cases. Then I started buying old refurbs for like $120 two at time. Now those that are considered old refurbs are $500+ so back to cases.