@cstross@Menhit For strange reasons of symmetry I just dropped a 256GB USB stick and a USB-C adaptor into a bucket full of dirty water.
We don’t have a cat and I had no tea, so I had to improvise with what I had at hand / in the bathroom
I rinsed them in IPA and now they are drying in Silica Gel.
I don’t really like this new fad but I guess the ice bucket challenge was worse.
@cstross@Menhit we should rate all storage media by how well it withstands immersion. I recall managing to save some files off a floppy disk that accidentally fell in a lake once, back in the late 90s... CDs are probably the best here, they don't care about liquids.
@foone@Menhit I am pretty sure that "get it out of the tea ASAP, rinse in tap water, shove in airing cupboard to dry for a week" is about the least-bad option (in the absence of interesting solvents). Failing that, it's a years-old 32Gb stick, so not going to bankrupt me.
@cstross@Menhit yeah it should be fine! Unless your tea was full of sugar, then it might be risky. Sugar water and electronics are not friends, but washing it off probably prevented that from doing too much damage
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