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My iPad is forever in airplane mode. That way I can turn wifi off without iOS automatically turning it back on 24 hours later.
If you turn off wifi from settings instead of the control center (top right corner pull), it will stay turned off. If you turn it off from the control center, it will indeed say "Turning off WiFi until tomorrow".
Knowing German I read through the sources. This article is pretty misleading. The [primary source]( https://www.watson.de/leben/urlaub%20&%20freizeit/879935671-... ) is a slightly clickbait article asking the questions: "Are AirTags allowed in checked luggage?". They reached out to Lufthanse asking them. They responded: "Luggage trackers are electronic devices so they have to be turned off when the luggage is checked…
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Don't forget floppy disks being enshrined as the Save icon - that has to be one of the shortest lives devices to give rise to such an anachronism.
And the fact that at that point they weren't even floppy anymore. Like 5 or 8 inch were...
No, they were all floppy. You are just thinking of the hard plastic case that 3.5" diskettes had. If you crack it open and disassemble it, the actual spinning disk is just as floppy as the 5.25" was.
This is as opposed to a "hard" disk which is a hard platter inside a fixed disk.
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My most frequent use of the air plane mode, is when I go underground on metro systems, which I find pretty ironic. (Without Airplane Mode, the phone will keep trying to connect to cellular towers, which just makes the network experience unstable) Perhaps "Underground Mode" would be more suitable in a modern context /s
Isn't an unstable network experience better than no network experience?
Yes, you would think ... but that is not the case.
QA and design of modern mobile apps and software - and even devices and appliances - neglects the testing of bad network connectivity.
Both my physical Sonos devices and, for instance, the apple-provided podcasts app, can handle being fully offline reasonably well. On the other hand, if you start dropping ~50% of packets they lose their mind and (in the case of Apples podcast app) freeze or crash.
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If you turn off wifi from settings instead of the control center (top right corner pull), it will stay turned off. If you turn it off from the control center, it will indeed say "Turning off WiFi until tomorrow".
Yes, but it's much easier to turn it on/off from control center, so I just have to leave it in airplane mode.
If you want, you can also just add that shortcut to lockscreen as well and do it via a single tap from there (which is also less clicks than even control center).
0. https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/run-shortcuts-tapp...
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Yes, but it's much easier to turn it on/off from control center, so I just have to leave it in airplane mode.
True. As an alternative, I personally just created a one-action shortcut for turning off wifi and assigned it to the double backtap action[0]. So i dont even need to look at the screen anymore or go into any menus. I just do a double backtap, and wifi stays turned off until i need it (same as doing it from the settings). If you want, you can also just add that shortcut to lockscreen as well and do it via a single tap…
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If SFO is supposed to mean San Francisco and CDG Paris then certainly not. The max range of a 737-800 is about 50% of the distance.
It’s a 777
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Don't ask a question you don't want to know the answer to.
Well, sometimes the question itself is intended as a DoS attack
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FWIW I showed an AA baggage customer service rep the location of my bag (within 200ft of where we were standing), the response I got was, “that’s nice, we’ll get you your bag when we get you your bag” - so while it’s nice to know where your bag is, the airlines will continue to not care until there are financial consequences for not delivering as promised.
I'd call the police in that situation