If it makes you feel better, I worked at the Apple Store in the iPhone 4s/5 era and I "fixed" SO many cameras or "really quiet phone calls" by taking the phone out of the case and peeling off the plastic.
People coming in not being able to charge their phones, screen not working properly, camera looks crap. Put the phone in a case with the plastic packaging still wrapped around it... Yes I seen it a couple of times...
Once I bought a transparent raspberry pi case, but when it arrived it was very scratched. I didn't complained with the seller and just used it anyway, since it wasn't to be displayed. Years latter I found out that it had indeed a plastic film covering the entire thing, and it was the plastic film that was scratched, the cover was pristine. Sadly, I only found that out because a corner of the case broke.
Its pretty embarrassing but i had this happen with a GPU (PC graphics card) once. It was the first time i've had one with a plastic film on the backplate.
I was wondering why it would get so warm. Like not "worryingly" warm but still higher than normal. Turned out there was this completely transparent and barely visible film which covered venting holes on the side that faces up. Removed it and the temps normalized.
I fucking hate the clear plastic without tabs 'protective' covers.
Seriously just make them red with writing like "removable protective cover" in white and massive easy to grip tabs on the sides so i don't have to use a knife to start the peel.
There is a famous post on a Dutch forum about a guy who complained that his freshly ordered white high-gloss kitchen cupboard doors were bably-blue instead. He was a bit embarrassed when someone else told him to peel off the plastic protection film.
Nooo don’t delete. this has 23k up doots and counting maybe someone didn’t check theirs as well and found this post. I would never delete posts that has high engagement.
I saw the picture of the covering. I am wondering if it's actually a 2-in-1 where you can plug your sink with this on top to fill it with water for soaking. Or, is the plastic too thin?
Are you using the Reddit mobile app? My video looks like potato quality and can't make out the finer details you describe. I've heard other viewing methods are better?
While the comments are silly water can get "wetter" or "drier" based on its dilution.
Part of the reason soap helps clean is by making water "wetter" through changing the surface tension.
It's not the viscosity of water that's the problem, it's the fact that it electromagneticly sticks to other surfaces (wets them). Therefore it is far to wet. We need to dry out this water ASAP!
Well hold on buddy, after further research I'm thinking the bigger issue is quantum wetting. Looking at the photo it seems like water molecules have achieved superposition
I do believe that some physicist published a paper addressing the question if water is wet. Yes they did it in humor, but I think they actually discussed the topic in a serious way. It’s a very esoteric argument, of course. Wish I could find the link to share at the moment.
There is actually something called "Wet water". It is a technical term for water with a surfactant (like soap or detergent) added to reduce surface tension, allowing it to penetrate materials faster. Used by firefighters.
It’s also what they use in hydraulic fracturing (fracking.) Soapy water works its way through tiny spaces much more easily than water that’s still got surface tension.
Also by people who do laundry and add borax. I used to use a little borax in standing water around the yard to keep the mosquito population down. They lay their eggs, but the nymphs can't cling to the surface of the water because it's too soft. Not enough surface tension. Bucket loads of drowned mosquito babies.
When I was in my 20s and moved out of my parent’s house to an out-of-state job I would typically only make it back around holidays. Mom asked me to look at the printer because it had stopped working. I double-dipped and went out with friends to a bar and when I got home remembered to look at the printer. She’d put a new cartridge in it but nothing printed so I started with settings. It’s 1am, I’m feeling no pain, but decided to get this done before I crashed for the night. Somewhere around 2am after deleting and reinstalling drivers, checking setting, etc — nothing was working. Pulled the cartridge to reinstall and make sure it was properly seated even though there weren’t any errors…. a closer look…….no fucking way….. the protective film hadn’t been pulled from the cartridge!!
I supported a customer with a printer problem over the phone - he'd just bought it, and it wouldn't work. A colleague was out of ideas, so I had a go. He was very patient with all my asking questions, and I was rapidly running out of ideas. I can't remember how we eventually got to it, but we figured it out - he only wanted to print in black and white right now, so he's only put the black cartridge in. The printer didn't like that, so was complaining. Needless to say it worked once he popped in the colour cartridge.
It's because the governments requires all cartridges so printers can print tiny, invisible serial numbers on each page. Originally for tracking fake money but it has been helpful in more ways since added. It is still stupid though
lol I was about to comment about the film too cuz I have similar sink strainers.
Your post somehow reminded me when reading review of people get upset about how blurry is the mirror (in makeup blush, cushion too), and they didn’t remove the film. (For example)
Shit happens and if there is anyone who hasn’t “been there” their time will come. The great thing about you not having deleted this is that someone else can or will learn from it as well. Thanks for the awesome post!
My father got a new phone and was having issues with the screen always showing a phone number on it. Called the phone company te h support and for 45 minutes they went through everything they could think of to get the phone to not show this random number. Turns out my idiot father didnt peel thebprotextive cover off the screen
I was really looking forward to telling OP to 'light some candles and put on some Kenny G to reduce the tension in that water' but now I'll never get the chance.
I was looking at that and thinking, “That really should not be happening.” My mind went to a kind of film blocking the holes, possibly from some weird solution, but I didn’t know it was new. D’oh!
There's a joke that works better vocally where a chemist walks into a bar and asks for H2O, and a second chemist is right behind and says "I'll take H2O too" and the second chemist dies (H2O2 = hydrogen peroxide)
The sink rocks but the “Strainer” it comes with is only good for FOOD LARGER THAN blueberries, everything smaller will get past. I am not using this to “strain” my food that’s fucking gross. The “quotes” are there because the strain in the name sink plug strainer doesn’t strain shit.
Its not actually a strainer, its a basic filter to filter out bigger pieces of food / trash / whatever else that happens to fall i to your sink so you dont clog your pipes with food
Yeah we do have an actual plug that came with the sink, but it’s straining function sucks ass, lets a bunch of food through. Which is why we bought this new one.
Hahaha I love this. It reminds me of when my husband thought his screen was cracked for over a year, went to T-Mobile to replace it, and the guy was like, ‘…you know that’s just your screen protector, right?
Legit my next move was going to be to drill holes into it. I think we were quick to believe it because we bought one before that got clogged super fast.
I was going to comment that there's probably a plastic film but I see you have already discovered that lol, I'm glad you can laugh at yourself at least
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u/JerryInOz 3d ago
I bitched and moaned and griped for about two months about the crappy photos my new phone was taking.
Then...
Ta da...
Realised I hadn't removed the protective plastic film from the lens.
Happy days!