PSA
Cleaning screens with alcohol (e.g. generic IPA) is *NOT* safe and may cause damage to the screen
Please use dedicated screen cleaner spray/foam
@rail_ that seems reasonable, except it would be nice to know what the active ingredient is in these screen cleaners, since I've personally done fine with dilute IPA on a microfiber cloth even though you're not supposed to do that
like, the majority of it must be water, surely, even if it includes something else
@clarfonthey @rail_ Note that there's a pretty big variety in screen lenses and coatings, so IPA may work safely on *some* of them but not necessarily all of them, it does not affect all plastics equally
@joepie91 @clarfonthey it's not a gamble you want to take and that's the point of my post
just, I hate how these kinds of situations lead to the kind of, I guess I'll call it illiteracy, that lets companies make bottles of cleaning products that are effectively just extremely common and cheap chemicals mixed with water marked up at several orders of magnitude their reasonable price
like basically every ordinary surface cleaning solution can be replaced with dilute citric acid, dilute bleach, dilute alcohol, or dilute ammonia (never to be combined, mind you) depending on context and it's practically criminal that they're charging so much for it, which is why I wonder what the active ingredient here would be since it can't be any of those
@clarfonthey @rail_ I mean, there's definitely better cleaning formulations than that, though I agree that you probably won't find them (at a reasonable price) in standard consumer stuff.
Often a more practical option is just to get the commercial stuff as that tends to be more concentrated and less full of marketing garbage (and water).
@clarfonthey @rail_ (Particularly if you have a glass screen lens without any additional coatings, it will likely be safe to use, but with a coating it may not be)