Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure. But that’s intended to detect shorts caused by water, and water is a much worse electrical conductor than a piece of metal, and so less damaging in the time it takes to detect a short.

  Even if phones have some level of protection, why risk damage when you could use something wooden and just not risk it at all?

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, metal needles or equivalent can raise contacts and do their damage. I cut the toothpicks with a cutter so that they are wedge shaped.

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