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Intentionally or unintentionally the waters have been effectively muddied and few people can come to any sensible conclusion on this issue. The general public will walk away with the simple message that AirTags are a safety risk and thus are banned from all aircraft. Apple marketing should consider jumping on this.
OT, kinda. My eldest kid is in the final year of UK junior school so finally cut lose to walk to and from school as is culturally acceptable here.. I gave her a phone so she could let us (mum/dad) know she was on her way home from school, deciding to go home to a friends etc.. the school caught wind and apparently it was against school policy so she was disciplined (along with a number of her peers) - the extent of w…
Umm...? Walk to school by themselves? How old was your eldest, again?
I think the acceptability of this stuff comes down to the area you live in.
As an aside, are there ANY decent airlines left in EU? Just having booked tickets thought 3 separate airlines, I had to go throught multiple circles of hell: captcha (LOT), purposefully confusing flow, no luggage by default and next tier being x3-x5 the price (WizzAir, but others are similarly bad), hidden fees appearing during final steps (Norwegian), and everything RyanAir. I'm not even flying with checked luggage…
Lufthansa is one of the better ones. Typically I’ve found it better to book tickets via United though.
It is one of the worst ones now.
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Did you even read my comment.. or did you see Apple product under attack and went for me.
I was responding to > a phone is not by default a device to track a kid an air tag is I would be surprised if lots of parents were not using the Find My functionality to track kids with phones before AirTags came out. I also recall mobile networks selling it as an additional service to parents before Apple and Google rolled out their solutions. Nowadays, even younger kids get Apple Watches for tracking purposes.
My parents didn’t have cellphones and they were fine, now with the US being MUCH safer than the 1980s/90s, those generations are now turning around and insisting on tracking the hell out of everything kids do. Insanity.
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LH is pretty much the worst of the lot. Their employees will avoid helping you at all cost even when it makes their lives easier. If nothing wrong happens, they're ok. If any thing happens it's your fault. It's been like that for more than 10 years.
I always find those kinds of comments hilarious. Did you actually fly all of the airlines above, or you just hate LH because you normally fly Singapore Airlines? (perspective is important in those discussions). As a rule of thumb the oldschool companies always suck less than the cheap companies who try to squeeze every penny out of you in every way. (Or have barely enough fuel so they need to call emergency landing o…
If something happens then they shut down service desk and don't help you at all.
Find your own solution and then they ignore you if you want hotel/travel costs paid back.
I'm still waiting ~4000 eur from them. But only one human reply that they forwarded claim to another department. 3 months and counting...
And I resend all my claims weekly and hope for the best.
Phone support is even worse. 2 hours on the phone and then they understand that indeed my flight was cancelled 3 months ago...
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Notice that while “etymonline” may not like it, serious dictionaries like OED give its meaning without any value judgments. Because scientists who study language seriously understand that trying to stem the tide of random language change is futile and pointless.
Lexicographers are neither linguists nor philologists, and any among the latter two worth their salt will tell you that "irregardless" is an erroneous and contradictory word, and further point out that whomever the neologist was that originally coined it made the mistake of double negative, such that "irregardless" must mean "with regard" as opposed to "regardless," and, as such, is superfluous.
Dictionaries follow how people are actually speaking, not the other way around.
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why is the school monitoring how kids commute and using airtags? it's not airtags fault, it's your orwellian government. this is such a dumb take i can't even. airtags alert people when they are on someone's person that they are not registered to, on iPhone and Android. kids commute on the train in japan, germany and other places, this is absurd.
The government was not involved in the patents anecdote.
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As far as I understand there is nothing new. Lithium batteries have always been allowed in checked luggage only if they are inside a completely powered off and reasonably protected device, to avoid the risk of fires. This risk doesn't really apply to such small batteries, but the rules are there regardless of the size of the battery.
Which is why this isn't about the battery fires. It's about the RF of hundreds of devices.
AirTags send these out once per second when the owner is near, otherwise once every 2 seconds.
Assume 500 passengers on a 747, and everyone has an AirTag, and let's assume worstcase, the tags are in-range:
500 pax * 270 = 135kbyte, or 1MBit/second of radio traffic. The equivalent of 4 bluetooth headphones.
This isn't about RF. This is about luggage claims. In the EU, consumers are heavily protected against delays, canceled flights, and lost luggage.
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A dictionary lists all the words people use. It does not curate the words people should use. Therefore, a words presence in a dictionary is not proof of anything other than the word has been used before.
Whether people “should” use a particular word is your subjective aesthetic judgment.
OT, kinda. My eldest kid is in the final year of UK junior school so finally cut lose to walk to and from school as is culturally acceptable here.. I gave her a phone so she could let us (mum/dad) know she was on her way home from school, deciding to go home to a friends etc.. the school caught wind and apparently it was against school policy so she was disciplined (along with a number of her peers) - the extent of w…
Fuck air tags? That's your take away? Fuck the school for stalking your child.