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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the battery is failing?

If Person A loses 1% over a week in standby, and person B loses 20% overnight, it's probably not the battery.. Unless Person B also tells you that in general their air pods only last 30 minutes playing music. As stated, their percentage of power level fall vs person A is 2000% more being generous (person A said a week, not a night). If it was because of the battery, the air pods would also last way way way less playi…

Except when lithium batteries get old they start to lose double digit percentages in a couple hours. My experience anyway.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#153
Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations.

The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all sort of things. So I have it on my keychain, wallet, or several other things I own. If I lose these items, any stranger can contact me without having any of my personal contacts.

What is it? It's a QR code. You scan it, and you can send some prewritten notifications to the owner. Once they reply, you can have a conversation. Scanning captures the gps location both for security measures and to help recover it.

https://web.ottomon.net/join

Landing page is totally misleading, I had big plans, but changing diapers took priority.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#154

Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations. The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all sort of things. So I have it on my keychain, wallet, or several other things I own. If I lose these items, any stranger can contact me without having any of my personal contacts. Wha…

This is a great idea for losing stuff and you should finish and ship it.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#155
post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've googled it and tried all the recommended fixes. This is a frequent problem - only for some people.

The left earbud dying is a frequent problem. Sometimes I sometimes hear about the right, but usually the left. Even more rarely, both die frequently, which isn’t the real issue…they drain the case, right? (if not ignore the rest of this) Want me to blow your mind? The REASON for this is the case. Everyone always suggests cleaning, but that won’t help for the long term. I know because I have tried. I took a pair of tw…

Going to give this a try tomorrow… fingers crossed.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#156

Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations. The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all sort of things. So I have it on my keychain, wallet, or several other things I own. If I lose these items, any stranger can contact me without having any of my personal contacts. Wha…

BitRip does this exactly:

https://www.bitrip.com/shop

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#157
post #122

So you scripted sending the message to 84 different numbers, was that from your own personal iMessage account? I would be terrified of doing something like that, I imagine the account could get flagged for spam, and hearing the various tech horror stories, I wouldn’t be surprised if it could end up suspending your iCloud account with everything on it, blacklisting hardware devices linked to it, and who knows what els…

So much for end to end encryption that is unreadable by Apple.

In other apps like whatsapp reporting a message usually sends contents/history to mods explicitly. No need to break e2ee for that

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#158

Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations. The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all sort of things. So I have it on my keychain, wallet, or several other things I own. If I lose these items, any stranger can contact me without having any of my personal contacts. Wha…

BitRip does this exactly: https://www.bitrip.com/shop

Except they don't have the cutesy startupy mascot that I have.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#159

I lost a pair of AirTags on an international flight (in cargo), fortunately I only lost the AirTags, and not the actual bags they were attached to! One of the AirTags actually flew around internationally for a week or so (London, Amsterdam, back to the US a few times!) but sadly after about a week there were no more updates. Someone must have found the AirTag in whatever baggage container it was stuck in and removed…

Why not put the airtag inside the bag?

My lost tag is (presumably) attached to my keys at the bottom of a lake. I refuse to delete it from findmy.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

#160

Alright, so I have a project that is mostly abandoned right now due to various other obligations. The main goal was to contact car owners without having to have their phone numbers and such. But i quickly saw the advantage of tagging all sort of things. So I have it on my keychain, wallet, or several other things I own. If I lose these items, any stranger can contact me without having any of my personal contacts. Wha…

This is a great idea for losing stuff and you should finish and ship it.

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