Some residue from water might not cause any problems. But I can confirm that beer dried up in my Sun keyboard really compromised the electronics.
Yeah it all depends on what type of device the liquid got in, and the type of electronics it contains; a keyboard is far easier to disassemble/clean than Apple's unserviceable devices.
mainly to flush out the minerals in the water
This.
But then that invalidates the rice, silica gel, dehumidifier approaches. All will leave minerals and other deposits behind. Several rinses of alcohol will carry them out. As will several rinses of distilled water
Thinking out loud: would an ultrasonic bath work also?
Did not know about something like that, and it's likely very much worth it - likely the highest chance of best result in the shortest amount of time (compared to all other options I know).
You might be better off putting it in a sealed bag filled with silica gel.
This. Silica gel would probably be best - but as I mentioned before, the problem is the minerals in the water left behind causing most issues once the device dries (unless you happen to have dropped it in distilled water).
I don't think allowing moisture to get deeper into the phone is a good idea. I get that the alcohol will dry faster but it can still short things out.
Fair point, but I believe (again, could be wrong) that alcohol is generally harmless to most components; the idea it to draw out the water (and its minerals, which is usually what causes issues once dried) and 'rinse' the device of the water/minerals as much as possible.
I generally try to gently shake my electronics out with whatever opening it has facing down (charge port, headphone jack, face of a mechanical keyboard, etc). Then I put it near some turbulent air like from a fan. I would avoid using a heater because it won't really dry it significantly faster and you could give it too much heat. But it can take multiple days to dry, depending how badly things got soaked.
Generally I think this would work, if you had dropped the device in distilled water. Most times the issue is the minerals left behind that causes issues.
Getting above 96% is very difficult and you might only get to 90%.
My local pharmacy has 99% alcohol in stock (along with the other stuff). But I read 90%+ is good enough.
I think the key thing is to flush out as much of the water as possible (and alcohol is harmless to most/all electronics components) - mainly to flush out the minerals in the water, which is what usually ends up being worst than the water itself (causes component rust and/or other electrical issues).
I read that putting your device in a small container of 100% (or close to that) alcohol is one of the best options - the alcohol will absorb the extra water, and once the device out the alcohol will evaporate.
High concentration is key, as typical 70% isopropyl alcohol alcohol sold in, for example, pharmacies will not absorb the water (since it's already 30% water). NOTE: I'm not an expert on this, so what I just said might be the wrong thing to do (much like using rice, apparently).
[Epic] has zero chance of getting their apps on the App Store _ever_
Except not really: Apple reinstates Epic’s developer account
competing web browsers could do a vastly better job of supporting PWAs -- unlike Safari's intentionally crippled web functionality -- and turn PWAs into legit, untaxed competitors to native apps.
It's quite obvious why Apple has been dragging its feet at (not) making Safari treat PWAs as first-class citizens - they clearly want iOS users on apps Apple can control/extract revenue from, instead of Steve Jobs' original promise for web apps.
I am not sure in what universe any of these changes can been seen as customer friendly.
It is customer friendly - when you realize that their real customers are their investors/shareholders, NOT their end users ("consumers").
Judging by a small sample of the first few pages of the emails at the level of details just these award administrators ( award administrators!) went through in these authors' lives (both recent and past stuff), I can only imagine the level of details the 3-letter agencies go through with everyone else's pasts.
WHERE IS MY LAWSUIT, TROLL??
I would love to see you argue for this in a court of law. The judge will probably laugh harder at you than at a sovereign citizen.
Why?
Why is it Big Tech can hit users over the head with their convoluted and lawyered-up ToS in courts, sometimes using the CFAA, but that anyone else can't based on their own ToS of their choosing?
What's the difference between Unpopular Opinions' business stance vs. Big Tech's?? Are they not entitled to the same equal rights in law?
Please, enlighten us, by issuing a minimum 1000-word essay detailing your arguments.
[They are] providing us with a trove of information about our own sites, DNS servers, email servers, pretty much anything about any online service you host.[...] Now the trend is basically anyone can do it over my systems, and they are always more than happy to sell anyone, me included, my data they collected without authorization or consent. It's data they never had the rights to collect and/or compile to begin with
Put clear Terms of Service on your website (or anywhere else you control the info, I'd suggest also adding a X-Terms-of-Service-Fees: header in all your webserver's HTTP responses pointing to a relevant link) that you charge a fee (just pull any number out of thin air, like $7500USD) for any info scraped for any sort of commercial purposes, and when they admit to it by cold-calling you (as they just did), inform them of the immediate charge, payable within 30 minutes, with by-the-minute accrual interest of 3% after that time.
32 year matches the age of Aminet, which will now outlive this. (Though not 'online' back in 1992, Aminet did start as an archive then.)
"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl." -- Dave Barry
