Don’t bother me now I’m waxing my phone (Interconnected)
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Posted on Wednesday 15 Feb 2023. 729 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.
Don’t bother me now I’m waxing my phone 13.43, Wednesday 15 Feb 2023 Link to this post There is a joy of maintenance that I feel like modern consumer electronics overlooks? So my iPhone hasn’t been charging properly recently. It’s unreliable – it charges, then it doesn’t charge, then I wiggle the wire and it charges again. A pain. I got a wooden toothpick from the drawer and dug around in the lightning port, carefully excavating a couple balls of impacted pocket fluff and miscellaneous fibres and dust. Then: plugging in my phone had a new and reassuring thunk as the cable seated properly in th
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