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iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
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I solve that, by not doing banking with my phone. Social media and store loyalty apps are basically just PID harvesters. In fact, I have a couple of solitaire games that are constantly nagging me to join leaderboards and take community challenges. All my financial transactions are done with my Mac, which sits behind a fairly robust home network. I know, for certain, that banking apps are the #1 first target, for hack…
> I solve that, by not doing banking with my phone. Even though some scum corps like Chase make it a PITA to manage my account from a desktop through firefox, that's the only way I'm going to interact with them. "Download the app!" Hard no! In fact these are the only apps I think that appear regularly on my phone, but only when I'm traveling: AirBnB, Uber/Lyft, and whatever airline I'm currently flying on next. I thi…
I don't use Chase in the US, but I had issues with firefox and some financial websites.
My fix was to create an entirely new profile, with no customization, no cookies restrictions, no add-ons, and use it only for financial sites.
I then exit my current FF, and switch to it, and back again.
All my issues vanished after doing that.
You could also create a different user in Linux, and isolate that way.
Hope it helps.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
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Maybe a phone could automatically disable airplane mode if it detects a sudden loss of altitude?
Automatically switches to last words recorder mode.
Reminds me of the skydiver who dropped his camera and you can watch it spin and eventually land in a pigpond where a pig investigates it. It’s on YouTube.
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#324I am glad these phones were not Nokias. Who knows what damage they would have caused.
I'm glad we know the cause of the accident now. If the FAA had just explained how severe the consequences would be if someone used a phone on a flight, I think we all would have been more compliant.
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Or ride with the damn bell ringing the whole time. I have a co worker who I won't ride with anymore simply because of that.
I always put my seatbelt (feel naked without it), but I deactivated the ringing in my car, otherwise it's annoying if you have a bag on the passenger seat.
Sir, mother in laws should be spoken of with more respect.
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I honestly feel like technical users would be using the "Never" setting more often than non-technical. When testing an app on the phone, it's really annoying having to re-unlock it because you looked away at a different screen for a while. Checking it on Android, never locking is a developer setting, regular display settings have a maximum of 30 minutes.
iOS has a few options between 30 seconds and five minutes and then one at never.
They should add 10/30/catastrophic decompression/fall from altitude.
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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.
I hate that the maximum for auto-lock is 5 minutes. I wish you could set it to 10 or even 30. but it's 5 minutes or never.
Guided access should give you some help there.
Re: iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
#328This isn’t surprising - there was a wired story about phones surviving from planes back in 2011 (1) The gist is that it’s a light object and due to that + broad shape, its terminal velocity is not very high. Coupled that with the mass and there’s not a lot of force on landing. Of course the phone itself is fragile so it might not take a lot of force to break. Still, as long as it lands on something soft it might be o…
Then why does my phone break when I drop it?
Does it? I have had a caseless iPhone for years, I drop it on hard surfaces a few times a week, and it’s fine except for a few scratches on the edges.
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~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?
> Wouldn't it be more likely to either tumble or settle on an edge?
There's also the possibility that it behaves more like an airfoil, and starts generating lift once it's going fast enough.
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#330So I think we can now update the old "why don't they make the plane out of the stuff they make the black box out of" to "why don't they put the plane in an iPhone case?" right?