Why in the world would I bring the phone in the shower?
To shave your butthole via camera
How else am I going to clean the phone after using it while I shit? That’s dirty
Next you’ll be telling me I should use a bidet instead of cleaning my ass with the shower wand.
Why not? (The article says steam is a problem, so cold showers are alright)
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Came here to say just that. I’m a grown ass man, I just take me in the showed.
To listen to music. Have you never tried that? It’s awesome.
Probably the same people who drink beer in their shower.
It’s not about you I guess mate.
Plenty of people do it though.
The neat thing is you don’t have to read everything that doesn’t necessarily affect you.
Wait, are the !showerthoughts@lemmy.world people really posting from the shower?!
I don’t think so, people have shower thoughts when they are away from phone
“They are showering us with their refined thoughts”
WHO USES THEIR PHONE IN THE SHOWER
Phone is the new heroin. Haven’t you heard?
Same people who use their phone in the car
You don’t watch YouTube while scrubbing down with sudds??
Yes. YouTube.
Literally, i put on like a podcast or 10min science video or something to listen to while i shower. Gotta be dopamine maxing
Your username kills me. I literally just watch that episode yesterday 🤣🤣
I will set some music, but I also don’t have a humidity problem in my bathroom.
I didn’t know people did that
I’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷
Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.
As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.
Who… da fuq… does this??
Nah hold on.
Manufacturers stole repairability and the headphone jack from us under the guise of waterproofing and now you make fun of people who use the feature?!?
If I had to give that shit up then I want the damn feature. Otherwise waterproof speakers exist and we never had to give up anything.
Taking away the headphone jack was more likely so they could try to make you buy $200 wireless headphones that need to be replaced every few years.
Every few years? Brave of you to assume that after owning them for 6 months or so I haven’t sent all of my wireless earbuds through the wash because I didn’t feel them in the pocket when doing laundry.
Now I’m using over ear wireless headphones because I can’t mistakenly wash a huge set of cans.
Side note: I can wash your mom’s huge set of cans
the one person who downvoted this loves corporate abuse and spending money on dumb shit.
Manufacturers stole repairability and the headphone jack from us under the guise of waterproofing and now you make fun of people who use the feature?!?
Because said waterproofing was for accidental, rare incidents of exposure, such that you have enough time to yank it somewhere safe before water penetrated.
Waterproofing was never meant for intentional, repeated, or extended exposure to extreme environments. That’s what waterproof cases are for. You know, the kind that allow your phone to go intentionally into water.
Yea that’s my whole argument. We lost very important things for some bullshit.
Should be an option, not mandatory.
<raises hand>
I listen to The Daily podcast or audiobooks. The phone goes into a little 3D printed holder to keep it dry and redirect the sound. I’ve done this for years with multiple phones, never any issues.
Even though modern iPhones are “waterproof” I like to keep it as dry as possible. The touchscreen stops working reliably if it gets wet, and the speakers can get blocked by water droplets and reduces the volume.
It’s also worth noting that living in the PNW requires using the bathroom fan to keep the moisture down. The bathroom never gets that steamy, which I’m sure drastically changes the moisture exposure equation.
In the bathroom in general, I can understand. Even without a fan, the steam rarely reaches countertop height, so putting it on the countertop or the lid of the toilet or something else low still makes sense if you are in the shower.
My issue lies in having it IN the shower, and having it taking the moisture straight in the teeth. Like… why?? It’s not like it is impossible to hear from next to the shower, well out of the way of said moisture.
Why? Mostly, so I can control it if an episode ends but also for max volume over the shower sounds. When I travel and don’t have a good place for it, I will use a nearby toilet or counter.
Same. Geez Lemmy really gets up on a pedestal about this.
I hate hearing my own thoughts and everything’s depressing right now. Listening to music instead of my own thoughts is considered a plus.
if you can’t be alone with your own thoughts you need therapy. not an insult. if you can’t stand what kind of person you are to the point that your thoughts are toxic, talk to someone. seriously.
I’ve been to therapy, many times … yes, I’m suffering, yes I’m trying to improve and no it isn’t easy and I’m going through something rough really right now.
I have a lot of friends around me and no one to turn to but yeah, I’m not looking for an online consult right now (as in I’m not holding you or any other Lemmy socially hostage about this). I just can’t bear my own thoughts right now.
[edit] thanks though from across the Internet, I do appreciate it [/edit]
A lot of people in Japan supposedly, at least that’s what someone told me once. Apparently JDM smartphones had waterproofing way before others because of that.
My cousin kill a phone this way. He would leave it on the sink to listen to music while he showered and it died (old house - no exhaust fan). It happens.
My thoughts too.
Do people not understand how electronics react to water?
People bring their phones into the shower?!
You can spend 1 millisecond away from your tsunami of AI sludge!?
Always wild concept to me. People bringing their $1000 electronics into an environment not made for them. Like come on, how long are you in the shower, do you really need to be entertained while washing your body?
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That is some next level shamelessness, what the fuuuu—
you can find plenty of phones for $100-$400
Plenty of new phones in say the US for $100? LOL Sureee.
you don’t need new phones, and I personally have purchased new phones (horrible carrier locked smartphones) for about $20 about 3 years ago.
Yes, I am sure you $20 smartphone you bought 3 years ago is functioning super well. I think you faily to realize that more and more people only utilize their phone as their computing device. No desktop, no laptop, just a phone.
the $20 phone I got is almost completely unusable as a phone, but for browsing social media/playing music/readin books in the shower it would probably last a few weeks while being cheap enough to not care about replacing it.
That’s where all the best ideas come from!
Can’t give your wife any chance on reading texts of you hitting on other women.
ok, who is doing this?
I have brought my phone into the bathroom (not shower) exactly twice, in my entire life… and both times it was because I was expecting a vitally important call, and could not wait for the call to come before getting in the shower.
I can not imagine the necessity of regularly taking your phone into the goddamn shower itself
Someone saw the movie Jexi.
I’ve never even heard of the word Jexi.
Its a movie about AI phone. The dude takes into the shower with him. Pretty hilarious movie.
You take it out of your pants pocket before entering the bathroom?
No, I dont walk around my house with my phone in my pocket.
And so at work?
I don’t regularly shower at work
You said bathroom hence my confusion
I don’t either but I often use the bathroom after coming back home from outside, and the phone is still in my pocket at least then.
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What in the boomer is this comment.
It is pretty amazing to me that some people really have to be told not to bring their expensive electronics into the shower. It’s the shower, just wash your dirty ass and get out.
Ive brought my phone into the shower for decades and it has not caused any problems ever.
You’re not alone, same same. Folks in this thread have a very narrow definition of the role and the duration of the shower.
I mean i kinda get it i take fifteen minute showers but ill put on a video helps me keep time too so i know how long i been in there. I also don’t take super hot showers so there’s no steam, idk maybe yeah if i had the shower all the way hot it’d be a problem but i take a nice hot shower and there’s not much steam idk
Tbf, since I have done this some 2-3 times:
Some special shampoos require you to be sitting there for like 10 minutes until it does its thing. I thought it was safe since water was no longer coming out of the shower, I didn’t consider the high humidity environment.
‘special shampoo’
is that your code for jackin’ it in the shower?
Feels so awkward to jack off in the shower. I much prefer doing it sitting in the toilet.
When I say special shampoo I mean it. Like the one time my dog got fleas so I used anti-flea dog shampoo just in case. It took forever.
In the actual shower, where the water is? Who does that?
Me. I have a phone mount installed in the shower. I need my dopamine receptors to be constantly stimulated from artificial sources, or I can’t accomplish basic tasks like cleaning/showering/cooking. Executive Dysfunction is a bitch.
People with normal dopamine levels just can’t relate, so I get a lot of flack and am often called lazy. Which is annoying as hell because I genuinely want to be a functioning adult, but my stubborn brain just refuses to let me accomplish anything without external stimulation. It’s torture being labeled something you’re not, just because someone can’t understand what it’s like when your brain won’t make the reward chemicals on its own. But it is what it is.
Also BTW I’ve been doing this for a decade and only once has a phone actually died on me from water damage. So I don’t worry about it. I’m clumsy so I always have an insurance plan for my phones regardless…
Sometimes I want to have a wank and a wash immediately after
I do, setting it in the corner makes the acoustics great for playing music
I like to do some business calls under the shower.
You have showers with water?
Add me to the list of people who just learned that anybody takes their phone into the shower regularly.
From reading the comments though, it seems to be a mix of phone/stimulation-addicted people and people who aren’t. But I’m skeptical of those who claim they aren’t.
There is two people in this thread
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people who read “bringing your phone in the shower” as having the phone in the same room as the shower.
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everyone else who seems to think that people are putting their phones directly under the shower nozzle.
Really poor wording on this article. Most people don’t think “bringing your phone into the shower,” means “leave your phone in the bathroom while you take a shower.”
I read it as number one and still got confused why people did this. I leave it in another room while I take a shower… is that not what people normally do?
Yeah, I always leave the phone outside the bathroom, never even thought to bring it with me. I guess this the new age addiction to bring phones everywhere you go even inside of your own home.
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I used to have a perfectly working system with a waterproof bag-thing for the phone and a bluetooth speaker somewhere outside of the shower so I could watch youtube videos while just chilling in the shower.
Also had one of those long 1920s cigarette holders so I could smoke a joint in there. I made a good time out of it.
one of those long 1920s cigarette holders so I could smoke a joint
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
Hop on loser, we’re gonna take a shower.
Sad, that the recommendation is “use Bluetooth speakers instead, which are more expendable” instead of “are safe to use”.
This thread is a great reminder that Lemmy users do not represent the general public. I put a phone mount in the shower so I don’t have to pause a podcast or whatever to take a shower, it’s nice. I don’t really love showers and struggle to stop what I’m doing to change direction, so it’s one less barrier to entry. My partner and some friends who have used my shower have also appreciated it.
Well according to lemmy you are a phone addicted psychopath
That’s me. Hell, you wouldn’t believe this, but I’m on Lemmy on my phone as I type this.
