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Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by astrange »

unglaublich wrote: post #207
aurareturn wrote: post #2

A lot of things went into my head: * The iPhone owner didn't put a password/passcode? * Damn, he paid Alaska $70 for baggage fee? * Now we know an iPhone will survive falling from the sky

Lufthansa wanted $450,- for an oversized bag (300cm sides, 30kg) on a 3h flight. Awful company.

I flew them recently and was amazed at how low quality the English text on all their websites/emails was. It's about as bad as you'd see in Asia 15 years ago.

They did let me prepurchase a pretzel though. (And then never gave it to me on the flight.)

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by astrange »

CyanBird wrote: post #108
spirit557 wrote: post #93

Obscured the credit card # but didn't think to grant the passenger some privacy and obscure their full name?

Likely because the aim is to find the actual owner of the phone?

Assuming the owner knows how to use their phone features, they can mark it lost in Find My with contact info. Or you can ask Siri what their address is.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by astrange »

nostromo wrote: post #104

I remember when you couldn't drop an iPhone four feet and have it survive. This one fell several thousand and the screen didn't even crack!

It's in an Otterbox and might have an extra screen protector though.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by astrange »

buffington wrote: post #32
upon_drumhead wrote: post #17

It says SOS mode, not airplane mode. Wonder why it’s not getting a cell signal. Maybe it is broken internally.

My old iPhone is in SOS mode after having ported its number to a new one. Perhaps, since their phone was lost, they needed a new phone, especially after having experienced what they did, and ported their number to that new phone.

These days it'd be transferring the eSIM rather than porting to a new SIM.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by robertlagrant »

sbuk wrote: post #169
bagels wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no way it's 20-40 mph. They're dense enough for much higher velocities.

~25mph assuming a Cd of 2.1 (a smooth brick is the closest I could find) a mass of 0.194Kg and a surface area of 0.01142313m^2 (75.6mm x 150.9mm). Of course that assumes it’s falling facing its largest surface, and not tumbling or a falling edge first. Obviously that is trickier to calculate, but 20-40mph doesn’t seem that unreasonable. Edit: it takes ~3 seconds to reach 99% terminal velocity.

> Of course that assumes it’s falling facing its largest surface

That was what I was thinking: surely it wouldn't be stable falling face-first? Wouldn't it be more likely to either tumble or settle on an edge?

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by robertlagrant »

seszett wrote: post #87
spuz wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well in Europe, you pay about £23 per flight just for a carry-on bag and £30 per flight for a check-in bag so I'm not sure things are any different here.

It completely depends on which airline you take. Like most other things, it's free on the more expensive airlines and more expensive on the cheaper ones.

It's included in the ticket price on more expensive airlines.

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Post by astrange »

zo1 wrote: post #124
a-dub wrote: post #81

my eyebrows may have raised when they left washington years ago, but these recent safety incidents have really caused me to start to doubt the new whartonized boeing's commitment to sparkle motion...

I honestly think that subtle and accepted incompetence is becoming pervasive all around, and airplane manufacturers aren't excluded from that. We need to strongly move back to a meritocracy otherwise our civilization will fall, one airplane door at a time.

The word "meritocracy" was popularized by a book whose point was that it's a bad idea that can't work. Trying it is eg how you get Peter Principled.

Sortition or other random promotion methods are actually the most theoretically correct afaik.

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by esrauch »

Daneel_ wrote: post #222
Shank wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disable auto-lock. The primary reason for this is that I’m extremely intentional about using my phone. If I have some content open, I don’t want the screen turning off. This is an atypical choice, but I always lock when I’m done and don’t encounter any issues from this choice.

Precisely. I’ll choose when to lock the screen - what if I’m using it to read a recipe, or looking up documentation, or I have a map on screen? Etc etc.

It seems like you should still have an auto lock to 30 minutes? Events way less drastic than an airplane door blowing off can cause you to not be able to lock your phone, like someone just snatching it out of your hand on the subway (where in theory they could keep it awake indefinitely with a 30 minute timeout but they very probably won't)

Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by tuetuopay »

al_borland wrote: post #252
imgabe wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's crazy to me that the phone hasn't locked automatically. Do people really walk around with their phones set to never lock and turn the screen off? Mine times out after 5 minutes.

My auto-lock is set to 30 seconds, and I still manually lock it any time I put it down instead of waiting. I often see people put their phone down or in their pocket with the screen still on, and it just sits there for several minutes. It’s a pet peeve of mine. I have to assume these are the same people who complain about battery life all the time.

my dad does this, and now complain his early-gen oled phone screen has terrible burn-in. it's not like I warned him since day one...
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