@darius

Human: "... and often our devices fail catastrophically and unrepairably when they come in contact with a few drops of water."

Visiting alien creature: "Forgive me, many apologies, fault of miscomprehension must be entirely my own, I had understood that you are 70% water."

Human: "Yes, why do you mention it?"

@darius unsolicited advice: I have found that adding a glass screen protector substantially improves iPhone touchscreen ability to function in the sho^h^h^h under misty work conditions.

@darius 12 year old me [nodding seriously]: I promise to never ever let my computer friend get even a little wet

[Much later: 40-something me does several laps in a pool forgetting his phone is in his pocket]

@darius Yet they work just fine after spending 30min at the bottom of a swimming pool 😮

I've been using touchscreen phones since 2008. Typing on one is still an extremely frustrating experience for me, especially typing in Russian. Since it's been this many years of me doing it every day and it still doesn't feel like an extension of my body, it must not a problem with me, but rather with this whole thing that a communication device is terrible at the one job it was supposedly designed for in the first place.

Maybe, just maybe, we might want to rethink some of that stuff.

@darius Was just thinking about old phones. I sometimes miss being able to use the core function of a phone when there’s water or snow. Can kinda get by with voice assistants.