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This is a great idea for losing stuff and you should finish and ship it.
Eventually I'll get to it...
Any plans about abroad shipping?
Did you lose your AirPods?
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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#242TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.
> In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.
Same in Poland.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#243The engraving service on Apple’s website is great!
I engraved my entire phone number, including the +1, and I’ve had my AirPod returned to me twice now.
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#244Random late night story, my iPhone was lifted while being unattended. Using findmy, I was able to circle in on an apartment complex. After bugging the police for weeks, they finally met with me to look at my evidence. We met directly outside of the apartment. They didn’t leave their SUV. A week later I got the phone back , because you can place a message on the lock screen remotely. The janitor of the apartment calle…
You paid the thief?
If the police can't help you this is the best you can do. I know lots of stories of people getting back their $1000+ gear only when they offer cash for the person to drop it and walk away or to anonymously return it.
$100 to guarantee your device back is a small price to pay apart from the insult of paying the thief.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#245My iPhone lost the ability to track my AirPods. I replaced my phone, and they don’t show up anymore.
Fix is essentially to sign out/sign in to all devices. For me, that’s a real PITA. Apple magic is magic until it ain’t.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#246TIL American cellphone numbers use an area code that represents the actual location. Do you get a new number if you move and then change to a different provider? In Germany the cellphone area code is just out of a range your provider has registered and if you move to a different provider, you typically move over your number.
This is the same in Canada. It isn't possible to distinguish landlines from cell phones by looking at the number. All numbers issued in an area have the same area code.
The North American numberig plan looks like +1-AAA-BBB-CCCC Where AAA is the area code and BBB-CCCC is mostly meaningless. There are a few special area codes like 8xx for toll-free calls (the classic 1-800 numbers that businesses often use) but no prefix dedicated to mobile.
When I moved to Ireland I thought it was weird that mobile numbers were identifiable. Especially since I had a Google voice number which looked like a landline which really confused people and websites. "Trust me, just text it. It is fine."
> Do you get a new number if you move
I don't know about the US but this used to be common in Canada. Many providers would consider calls to different cities long distance and charge extra. So if you moved it was "polite" to get a new number so that people could call you for local rates. For example I went to university in Ottawa and changed my Toronto number so that people didn't have to pay long distance to call (even though it is the same province, about a 5h drive).
However this isn't really the case anymore. In the US and mostly in Canada country-wide calling us pretty standard so most people's mobile number will reflect where they grew up, and they will carry that around for the rest of their lives.
> and then change to a different provider?
Usually not. You can ask your provider for a new number in a different city and they will issue it. Most Canadian providers are country-wide so you don't need to switch provide if you don't want to.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#247I‘ve accidentally left my AirPods Pro in a safe in a hotel, and forgot about them. Over the next days I tried to get them back, but reception claimed that nobody has them. Now the Find My app reports them in a small town near where I „lost“ them, ca 600km from my home, and clearly someone is using and charging them (with Android? Because otherwise the „Lost“ functionality would be nagging them constantly). I won’t dr…
Maybe one day your paths will cross and you can exact your revenge.
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That definitely isn’t normal. My guess is you need to clean the contacts in the AirPods. They might be in the case but it’s still pairing or trying to pair. Shouldn’t drain that much, especially overnight.
I love the airpods but ah... they dont play well with any kind of metal work. If you do metal work with a file the shavings get everywhere and once they stick to the magnet its almost impossible to get them out. I guess this is a very unusual edge case though but thought id post it. lmao.
Do you reckon a high psi stream of compressed air would remove the shavings? ie from an air compressor or similar
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https://app.ngf132.com/ Long time ago I came across very similar concept in use in India. Not much, but visible usage. I also came to know by looking at a sticker on car windshield.
Seems to be just for cars.
Basically it's a QR code masking your contact details. You can put it anywhere. It costs about $5.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#250This wouldn't work for me; my area code is from Los Angeles, but I haven't lived there for fifteen years.
I have lost my airpods, back in 2020 (it was the start of covid and I was taking off a mask in Thailand and flipped them out of my ears). I noticed they were missing twenty minutes later, used find my to get back to where I dropped them, had them make noise and found one of them.