About a year and a half late in informing people, nice.
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Apple Warns Against Using Hydrogen Peroxide Disinfectants on Products
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Phonesoap is good. Had it for years. But to me there is nothing like the clorox beach smell to signify a newly cleaned iphone.This thing cleans the 🚽 bathrooms down on another level, without any scrubbing effort.
Apple coming up with its own cleaning product soon.
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TBH, Apple isn't looking so hot recently (imo)
Between their App Store cut fiasco, going to war on right to repair, now Pegasus-gate. The nothing burger (again imo) of 'being insensitive to' WFH... at least some PR backlash if only media clickbait.
What's next?
Also water and harsh cleaning fluids are very different things, unless you are trying to eliminate the Corona virus by drinking bleach.
I have no idea why Apple publish this. Same as other warnings ‘don’t put plastic bags on your head, don’t drink bleach, don’t look at the sun etc etc’. How are we meant to allow Darwinism to take its course.😂
So is it because peroxide damages the oleophobic coating, or it's too close to water in structure, which is it?
Just like their security advisories, they never explain the WHY.
Just like their security advisories, they never explain the WHY.
We will all die because of over-disinfection. That one bacillus that escapes the cleaning orgy will be the culprit, because our body has no clue how to handle it...
Apple issued the warning for XDR back in 2019, and always has the general rules.
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I wonder what the actual problem is with peroxide and bleach. It should be just fine on glass. Maybe they're concerned that it will cause paint to fade or damage the plastic seals.
Well my phone and computer need liquid cooling! If I can't submerge them in the liquid cooling agent, what CAN I do?
(This post was made in irony)
(This post was made in irony)
It still might be useful to use immediately after you get the wound to clean it out since the first stage of the immune system‘s response (the innate stage) basically kill’s tissue in the immediate area as well. After that I would expect using triple antibiotic would be the best solution. I’m old enough to remember having wounds treated with mercurochrome and merthiolate which contained mercury and I’m guessing wasn’t such a good idea.Hydrogen peroxide really doesn't disinfect well, anyway. The bubbles are generally the enzymes (superoxide dismutase) in the microbes or skin breaking down the peroxide into water and oxygen. Use alcohol or soap if you want to disinfect or clean something. They work much better than peroxide.
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It's hard to believe you can use alcohol on the laptop displays. My 13" rMBP display delaminated without using anything on it, was replaced, and delaminated again. I would imagine alcohol would take whatever coating is on there off even faster. The pre-retina MBPs had that really nice, solid glass, and I could see cleaning those, but I'm not really sure what these are made of.
Apple says specifically to avoid using paper towels: "Use only a soft, lint-free cloth. Avoid abrasive cloths, towels, paper towels, or similar items."
How to clean your Apple products - Apple Support
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A) They’ve never marketed their products as waterproof. Just water resistant.
B) lysol isn’t water
I don't see why hydrogen peroxide would be harmful to an apple product unless people are not diluting it down properly. Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2, which is basically water with an extra molecule of oxygen added. This makes it one of the most simple and safest of known chemicals.
I can only think that people are using it incorrectly and Apple just feels the need to cover themselves. Obviously any liquid can be damaging to electrical products, but I genuinely don't see what damage that a 3% H2O2 solution could do on a cloth.
I can only think that people are using it incorrectly and Apple just feels the need to cover themselves. Obviously any liquid can be damaging to electrical products, but I genuinely don't see what damage that a 3% H2O2 solution could do on a cloth.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is just carbon dioxide with one fewer oxygen. I’d highly recommend avoiding 400ppm of carbon monoxide. 400ppm of carbon dioxide may not be good for global warming but is nearly harmless.
Hydrogen Peroxide is perfect for removing the fancy finish from your plumbing and other products.