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mmmlinux • today at 5:49 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Here's what you do. Skip the detector, Just put the whole laptop in there. when it goes offline, You have water in the sump.


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JoshTriplett • today at 5:56 PM

Very much in the spirit of the "weather stone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

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knodi123 • today at 7:48 PM

Anyone can build a working sump flood detector. But it takes a real engineer to build one that can detect two floods.

Uncle_Brumpus • today at 6:21 PM

"...And so that's how I ended up with a $14,000 basement repair. Yup, those damn chromebooks are more waterproof than you'd think! I mean it makes sense, they're designed to be vomited on by children all day at school."