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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by xeromal »

echoangle wrote: post #269
alistairSH wrote: post #262

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Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? In the USA, the number reflects the area it was issued. So my phone number matches suburban DC. If I move to California, everybody would know I lived in DC in the past. Kind of odd, I guess, but is a leftover from when cell homes didn’t exist and then when numbers weren’t portable across providers.

> Why would moving require a new provider/number? Are plans/numbers not portable in Europe? They are portable in Europe (I said that in the second part of my comment), but it seemed like they weren’t in the US, because otherwise, the post is a bit strange. The author just tried every number from his area code to find the owner, when it is possible/likely that the owner has a completely different area code. That’s why…

I think it's just an increased odds thing. Most likely the number was from oregon and he proved his guess by finding the person.

I have an old utah number that I've taken around to several states and I always get fun conversations when people ask what I did there.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by __s »

pessimizer wrote: post #260
szundi wrote: post #236

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This is since the existence of software and is going to stay with us until most people is ok to have 1/3rd of the features for the same kind of money. This will never happen, so bugs are here to stay.

The fact that software is buggy is not the customer's fault any more than food poisoning is the fault of people who eat too much.

If you restrict your diet & make sure to properly cook your food you can greatly reduce your frequency of food poisoning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804545

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by mouse_ »

ornornor wrote: post #229
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #218

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could you link the bugreport or sth pls. apple has such weird bugs. on my iphone if i set an alarm and late at night i decide to tell siri to put another alarm she deletes the first one. did miss some flights because of that. and sometimes it doesnt ring at all. have a analog alarm for that now.

Apple doesn’t really care about bugs. They’ll get fixed if and when they feel like it.

It'll get fixed if they think it'll result in a lost sale. As they are effectively a vendor monopoly, this probably won't happen.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by xeromal »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #274
ancientorange wrote: post #159

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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.

Kindred spirit! My old Apple Watch is at the bottom of the Colorado River near Moab. Still paired in Find My.

I was in moab last november and took a dip in the colorado for my "bath". Good lord that was cold. lol

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by xattt »

kevincox wrote: post #246
echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL 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 pre…

> Canada. It isn't possible to distinguish landlines from cell phones by looking at the number.

Atlantic Canada is small enough that there was a single area code for Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia up until a few years ago.

Cellphones in the region tend to have their own CO code (first three digits of the phone number), so you can usually infer if it’s a number you can text or not.

This is also the case for different regions of NS and PEI, so seeing a 902 number where the CO number is different from what you’re used to makes it seem “exotic”. This was also handy back in the day to know whether it was long distance or not.

This is slowly eroding as numbers get ported out, and landlines get disconnected.

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Post by seb1204 »

radicality wrote: post #254
ilt wrote: post #91

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I think more than sending 84 messages, getting reported on handful of them can be more concerning. While you’ll rarely get reported for a party invite.

Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure what happens after I click “Delete and Report Junk” on every spammy-looking sms and iMessage I get, but I imagine the iMessage reports go into some ML blackbox and hopefully contribute to banning the spammer. I understand the op was trying to do a good deed, but if I saw an unexpected message like that I would definitely hit “Delete and Report Junk” instead of just “Delete”.

Why would you consider the text spammy? No links or requests were included. So just delete seems fine to me.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by mystified5016 »

echoangle wrote: post #191

TIL 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 the olden days, if your cell number had a different area code from the place you were physically in, you'd get long-distance charges when calling a local number, but not when calling a number matching your area code.

In modern times however, the area code is largely irrelevant. You get assigned a number with the area code of the place you first opened your account, and then you can just keep that number forever if you want. I've had the same number for almost 20 years and I've had four different providers in that time. Porting a number between carriers has been a standardized process for a very long time.

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Post by wafflemaker »

agumonkey wrote: post #289
helipad wrote: post #69

I left my AirPods Pro at a school sports field an hour away, and I didn't realize until the next morning after it been raining heavily. I gave them up for lost and needed headphones for work – so ordered some from Apple with same day delivery. A week later, I got a Find My notification that they had been spotted – at the same sports field. I figured what the hell, put on a podcast and drove the hour to see if I could…

What would happen if you lost only one?

Slight chance of finding it if you notice it's missing fast enough. FindMy only finds the charger, not the headphones out of charger, but you can make it play a sound.

You can buy a replacement for about 50% of the price of a new set (complete with charger case).

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Post by 867-5309 »

mouse_ wrote: post #293
ornornor wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple doesn’t really care about bugs. They’ll get fixed if and when they feel like it.

It'll get fixed if they think it'll result in a lost sale. As they are effectively a vendor monopoly, this probably won't happen.

what a bubble to live in
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