This thing is totally insane.
Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high.
Please remove this post.
Nuking your phone in the microwave is in the same category as baking it in the oven. You really shouldn't be surprised when you don't have a working phone anymore.
I don't think it is wrong of us to expect better from a bunch of adults. They should know better.
It doesn’t matter one bit whether you think someone should think it through the way you would. People routinely disappoint on that front, and it’s almost always because people have expectations that are closer to their own experience and thought process than they realize.
Personal anecdote, for your judgy amusement: a couple weeks ago I fell hard on the pavement of a very busy arterial road. I was running behind schedule, hurriedly looking for a chance to beat the crosswalk signals if there was a safe gap in traffic. I was paying attention to the height of the curb as I went, because it’s unusually high off the road at one intersection then gradually gets closer to a normal height in the course of a block. Trouble is, I wasn’t paying close enough attention, and I misjudged the height by about a foot.
I stepped into the road in a gap in traffic, but there wasn’t anything under my foot when I stepped down. Before I know it, I was sprawled out on the street, gratefully with a busted up hand not a busted up head. And more gratefully, with an audience sitting at the next red light, not still traveling towards where I fell.
I was, indeed, embarrassed by all of this. And any one of the people who saw it happen surely could have called me stupid. Maybe they even did, but I’m happy they kept it to themselves at the time. I realized my error as soon as it happened. What good would have come of insulting me on top of that?
There is an idea floating around that all judging is bad. I reject that. It might not be helpful to the person being judged an idiot, but the expectation that I should change my view of others to help them with their learning is... I'm struggling to find the right words here... an imposition?
I think it is the difference between being kind to everyone and not being unkind to anyone.
Everyone judges people all the time, to claim otherwise is a lie. I will continue to judge people by their actions, whether or not they improve by some metric is not my aim, nor my problem.
note: do not turn your microwave on for ANY portion of this test
1. Unplug the microwave.Pretty sure you need the earth though right?
Why should it be grounded?
The cell signal in the Faraday cage causes a mirror signal on the cages inner surface and the cage’s conductivity ensures that the potential is zero elsewhere in the cage.
Why do I need the ground? Is it a consequence of not having a perfect conductor?
Also, if that were the case, an airplane couldn't be made into a Faraday cage.
Also, the cage+Earth system would itself be an antenna.
If you need ground for a topologically imperfect cage, maybe… but I doubt it.
I think (but I don't know!) this is like the legends surrounding engine torque car guys believe. Electrical engineers putting everything to ground because they got burned
But one could also use fridge for this test.
Funny how kitchen stuff was thought to be women's work once.
Clarification: domestic kitchen stuff was thought to be women's work, professional kitchen stuff was thought to be men's work (and still is[1]).
Edit: okay maybe I can imagine you’re saying that women have been competent in the kitchen and men [/other gender identifying people?] have demonstrated not being as competent. I’m really trying to stretch credulity to read this in good faith.
Sexist? Please, shove that word. This is simple facts about life.
Respectfully, fuck no.