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I've seen battery powered shavers that refuse to work while being charged, so instead of having a failure mode that allow it to be used while wired, you have to

• dmurray 2y ago
  That at least sounds like it's plausibly for safety reasons, don't go splashing water around the thing plugged into a live socket. It's much weirder when Apple makes the same design decision for a mouse.
  • nordsieck 2y ago
    > That at least sounds like it's plausibly for safety reasons, don't go splashing water around the thing plugged into a live socket. Do many people even use electric shavers wet? That just seems like a bad idea to me - you want the hairs to be as stiff as possible, and getting them wet does the opposite. I know some of them are advertised that way, so I guess some people do it. But it just seems weird to me. Blade based razors make sense to shave wet with - you're typically using some sort of foam to keep the hairs elevated. But I've never heard of anyone using shaving cream with an electric.
  • ben_w 2y ago
    No shaver sockets where you live? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_British_and_related_types#BS_4573_.28UK_shaver.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_Br...