Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?

• 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We’re usually not. It’s to dissolve gunk

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really? we had 99 percent to clean a laser machine lens at a leather shop. I never really thought about it.

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    • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lenses for a laser is better to clean with 99%iso due to it barely leaving any residue when evaporating, but even that is a compromise.

      What you really want is pure (“100%”) alcohol/ethanol to leave even less of trace. Unfortunately most people or companies can’t buy pure ethanol due to the nature of alcohol laws, so a substitute like isopropyl is used instead since its usually "good enough "

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• Forester@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We’re talking about not shorting the electronics 3%water won’t normally make sparks

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You might be, OP is not. Neither am I. We’re talking about cleaning a phone, the outside of the phone, not a bare circuit board. Phones are almost universally water resistant, so being worried about shorting electronics is silly.

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No it’s not, those ports are not all sealed. Most are water resistant not water proof.

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      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes it is. I have literally never heard of anyone ever breaking their phone by cleaning it 70% alcohol. And I said water resistant already, so I’m not sure why you’re implying I said water proof

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