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Not sure your kitchen situation, but most homes have a microwave. Shouldn't that work?
Do I need to turn on the microwave with the phone inside it? This is an honest question because I don't know anything about microwave signals (I could google/research), but my instinct tells me I probably shouldn't turn on the microwave with the phone inside it, though I don't know for sure what will happen (explode?)
I had to disable the shortcuts on my iPhone because the toddler had discovered hold to dial 911 and talk to the nice lady. Luckily I caught it before it became like the other case I heard of, where a kid learned he could get a fire truck to visit anytime he was bored and had a phone.
Same has happened here with our 2-year old, except we didn't get to it in time and have had the fire department show up on more than one occasion before we figured out what was happening. There were also a handful of times we could hear a voice coming through the wife's phone where we narrowly avoided a few more visits. This was all before we discovered how she actually calling 911. It's shocking to me Google didn't…
This sums up the fraud of Android perfectly.
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Do I need to turn on the microwave with the phone inside it? This is an honest question because I don't know anything about microwave signals (I could google/research), but my instinct tells me I probably shouldn't turn on the microwave with the phone inside it, though I don't know for sure what will happen (explode?)
Don't microwave electronics
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I guess this is one of the major down sides of battery not being removeable...
Fortunately, it seems the EU will mandate removable batteries by 2027? Caveat: I haven’t done any research into that besides the headline, so YMMV. https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/22/new-eu-law-to-forc...
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I have a nice, handmade mechanical watch and it's never tried to spam-call any emergency services. Also shows the time fairly reliably.
Yes, but can it collect large amounts of personal data about you?
I'm having an issue related to this right now actually. Some spec of dust or something must have gotten into the power button on my Pixel 4a, so very occasionally it'll jostle into such a position that every time I push the power button it registers as two presses. If I only press it once, it think I'm using the double-press shortcut to open the camera. This was mildly confusing the first few times it happened, but a…
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We do have a useful invention called the screw. With every phone phablet sized nowadays there isn't a valid argument that they don't have room for waterproofed fasteners.
Screws are how in fact one accesses the battery in an iPhone.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Battery+Replacement/1...
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>> That was a fun night when the dead phone woke up and started dialling 112 repeatedly and there was nothing I could do short of smashing the damn thing with a hammer to stop it. > Just put it in a Faraday cage. Problem solved. Even if I don't have a hammer handy, I could probably find something in the middle of the night to smash the thing. A Faraday cage on the other hand...
I wonder if it shouldn't be a thing we keep handy. Like a foldable Faraday cage (bag ?) big enough to fit a laptop that can be whiped out in case of emergency.