Wired earbuds: one hard to lose thing. AirPods: three easy to lose things.
Did you lose your AirPods?
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#312TIL 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.
There's also some social signaling here, like 415 is the original San Francisco area code – but if you got a number in the last few years it might be 628 which was added as 415 reached capacity.
Yeah some people put a lot of value on area codes. My wife was so proud when she got her first iPhone years ago because it was a 214 number (Dallas proper). There use to be posters around town saying “keep 972 out of 214” since 972 was associated with the smaller suburban areas just North of Dallas. I had an 817 number which was ft worth and basically an untouchable haha.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#313TIL 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.
You can keep your number if you move. My number is from another state.
Also nowadays when you get a new line you can pick any area code, so they have become somewhat meaningless.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first gen pros didn’t survive. They still work, but have a high pitched wine. They were already out of warranty so I had to buy a new pair. I did not and will not complain. I have owned over a hundred pairs of headphones/earbuds in my lifetime and these things are the best, by FAR. However, don’t wash them.
Holy crap, hundreds of pairs? What do you do with them? Run them through the washer just for fun? :)
I probably haven't had hundreds yet, but probably more than one hundred.
So many things used to come with cheap earbuds or headphones. A pocket radio. A portable CD player. A cheap MP3 player. A laptop. I've even had some small TVs come with headphones out of the box. So there's like 40+ sets I didn't even ask for over the years. Pretty much all immediate trash.
Then there are the ones I bought in a pinch. Go on a trip, realize I didn't bring my headphones, swing by the store and get a cheap pair. Being a cheap pair, they often didn't last long. There's another dozen sets.
Now the ones I actually wanted. Not all have replaceable cups or pads, so they'd often wear out after a few years. Or they were USB, and the circuitry started freaking out after a few years. On top of that I probably have different sets for different use cases. A pair for on the go. A pair for the computer. A pair for the HiFi system. A pair for the office.
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#315Random 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?
I forgot my iPhone in a taxi in China; managed to call it and talk to the driver who had found it. Had to pay him off to get it back though :/ But it was cheaper than buying a new phone.
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#316The 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.
I did the same! Such an easy hack.
Also the 1 helps balance/center the phone number.
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Practically forcing people to change mobile phone numbers when moving from one place to another is a level of evil I didn't not expect to exist in Canada. Any idea if the premium was due to technical limitations or just to milk the customers?
You'd probably have to ask someone who worked in the phone industry at the time. I suspect that long-distance calls were legitimately quite expensive to provide at some point in the past, and the industry was happy to keep charging extra even as they reduced internal costs. Luckily this is mostly behind us, almost all providers offer Canada-wide as a standard feature. Canada+US is becoming the common default. Of cour…
> I suspect that long-distance calls were legitimately quite expensive to provide at some point in the past
From the outset, what actually costs money is the (telephone) network. But people were often reluctant to pay the true cost of access to the network at first - so for a long period the providers charged for calls. After all if the average person receives 100+ minutes of incoming calls per month, but is only willing to pay you $15 for the network access which you want $25 for, you can take their $15 and then charge 10 cents per minute for calls to get the same net revenue...
In the US in particular the government regulators allowed operating companies to significantly overcharge for long distance in order to subsidise local calls. This creates market distortion which was judged worth it to facilitate widespread rollout of telephony. They probably should have reined it in much earlier, but hey, the basic idea worked.
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#318I‘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…
Similar thing happened to me. I gave them an address and asked them to cross reference with their employees addresses.
I got the stay for free after that, they reversed the charges and apologized.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine lose 20-30% sitting in their case overnight. It's very annoying. You ARE lucky!
Just chiming in to say I had the same problem and found a solution. For some reason, my AirPods silently connect to my iPhone while they're in their case and both devices are asleep. Why they do this, I have no clue. Just quality 2020s Apple programming. Anyways, there's an easy solution: go into the settings app (not the drop down menu) and turn off Bluetooth on your phone/ipad when you don't need it. Your AirPods w…
Can’t you just turn off Bluetooth easily via Control Center? Top left Bluetooth symbol
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#320TIL 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.
You can keep your number if you move. My number is from another state. Also nowadays when you get a new line you can pick any area code, so they have become somewhat meaningless.
I wouldn't go that far. Area codes don't mean as much as they used to, but they are still a very strong association to the actual area. I would say that the majority of people I interact with in my area have a mobile number from the area code. And of those who don't, all of them are from out of state.