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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

afavour wrote: post #233
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.

You can, and some do, but a lot don’t. I live in NYC and you’ll see area codes from all over the country.

I think NYC is likely to be an extreme outlier in this regard. A lot of people move there from all around the country (and outside it).

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Post by tialaramex »

FractalParadigm wrote: post #212
echoangle wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So the author of the article was lucky it wasn’t someone who moved to Portland. I wonder what the ratio of people who have the area code of their actual location as a phone number is.

I was thinking the same thing; the city I'm in isn't even that large (approx 450k pop.) but I could probably go through my list of contacts that live in-town and rattle off at least two-dozen area codes that aren't native to the area (on top of the dozen or so that are), with at least half of those being out-of-province. The slow death of long-distance billing, which also finds itself competing with the likes of Face…

> or a wicked discount

Isn't that regulated? In many places the operators are required to let you take the number with you when you change provider to obtain a better/ cheaper service. Everybody's numbers in practice go via some LUT that's mapping a human "telephone number" which people dial to an actual service endpoint which might move (after all, cell phones already move, so this indirection was necessary to make that work) and so the rule only needs to say that there's some means by which company A gets to change the LUT for your phone instead of company B.

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Post by bps4484 »

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.

They stay with you if you choose. What's kind of sentimental and nice is that the area code stays with you as marker of where you're originally from no matter where you go. It says "this is where I was from as a teenager when I was first allowed a cell phone."

I don't know if this coincided with trend of getting an area code tattoo to signify where you're from, but that also is something that is done by some.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

wafflemaker wrote: post #299
agumonkey wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

That’s not correct.

One night I dropped my case as I crossed the street to my building. I grabbed it off the ground without paying attention, both buds had fallen out.

In the morning, I picked up the case and noticed that it felt light. Find My reported both buds as having been seen outside on the sidewalk, one last seen four hours ago, the other six. I ran downstairs and outside to find them both smashed by car traffic.

Another time a bud popped out of the case while passing through the TSA X-rays (yes, I have lousy luck with these). I was able to pinpoint the direction with the app and make it plays sounds, but the agents were unable to dig under the rollers and get it out.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by tialaramex »

headPoet wrote: post #268
alistairSH wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In the UK cell numbers start with 07 and landline numbers start with 01. And there is no region encoded in a cell number, but landline numbers begin with an area code.

Not all the landline numbers start with 01, all the big cities and urban areas got moved into 02 to make space decades ago when there was concern we might run out of space.

Also, 03 is guaranteed to cost the same as 02 but has no specific geographic link, so it's often used for helplines, customer service, that sort of thing, and for people who want to have a landline (or multiple landlines) but do not want to reveal their location.

04, 05 and 06 are part of that roped off space we reserved in expectation of a need that's now unlikely to ever materialise, oh well. In the era when it was conceived people thought "Internet shopping" was a ludicrous idea and still imagined "Video calls" would be a thing you'd do as a telephone call somewhow - so what did they know.

07 as you said is where non-geographic mobiles live, as well as some other services at similar price points

08 is "free" or sometimes revenue sharing prefixes and the 09 prefix is where "premium" services live, you know "Chat live now to singles in your area".

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Post by RHSeeger »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #309
__s wrote: post #292

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That wasn’t their point and I’m hesitating to believe you actually think it was. This is like blaming people for not locking their door after they’ve been robbed. Yeah, they should have locked their door. But the person who actually did wrong is the person who robbed them. Blaming somebody for not taking extra steps to reduce the chances of something happening to them that is ultimately the fault of another party is…

I don't agree with this at all. It is possible to both be in the wrong _and_ not be the villain. If I am dressed to the 9s, wearing expensive jewelry, carrying a lot of money.... and then I want down dark alleys.... and I get mugged; I am not the bad guy, the mugger is. But I'm also partially to blame, because I knowingly took actions that increased the likelihood of me being mugged.

Our society has elements that will harm us. It is up to us to take action to reduce the likelihood of that happening.

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Post by rootusrootus »

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.

The US and Germany both made number portability a thing in 1998. In the US you can port numbers between land lines and mobile. In Germany you cannot.

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Post by foundddit »

deeth_starr_v wrote: post #319
foundddit wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That doesn't turn Bluetooth off. It's deceptive. It simply "disconnects" it, but it'll still connect at a random point in the future. It also doesn't really disconnect it since it'll still detect devices and burn away your battery life. And I experimented with it countless times over a couple years.

That's why I said you need to do it through settings directly. Otherwise it won't do anything.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by joshiain »

On a recent holiday I'd just checked in to my hotel, went to unpack a bit and couldn't find my AirPods.

I went to look at Find My to see where they were, but unfortunately I was in South Korea, and little did I know the location function in Find My doesn't work there.

I thought it must have fallen out of my pocket while I was in the taxi, as I remembered having them as I got off the plane, and I have a bit of history with my earphones falling out of my pockets.

I took a taxi from the taxi rank at the airport, so there was no record of who drove me like with Uber, but luckily I paid by card, and I could see what taxi company I used.

I asked the staff at the hotel if they could help me call the taxi company to see if they could find out which driver dropped me off. They somehow managed to contact the driver, but he had not seen my AirPods.

I went about the rest of my day while trying to convince myself that I didn't need a new pair. But while the location doesn't work with Find My, I could still play a sound through the case. So I would randomly hit it a few times hoping it was actually hidden away in my things.

After losing all hope, later when I returned to my hotel room I found a note had been left for me saying the taxi driver had found my AirPods and turned them in to a local police station!

Feeling excited I wouldn't have to go on the rest of my holiday without earphones, I happily made an hour long trip across the city to collect my AirPods, arriving just as the station was closing.

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Post by rootusrootus »

osigurdson wrote: post #311

Wired earbuds: one hard to lose thing. AirPods: three easy to lose things.

So you gain a bit of protection against losing them, and lose a bunch of convenience. It is a trade-off. I have precisely zero desire to ever go back to corded headphones. Between the cord noise and catching it on things, wireless headphones have been a marked improvement in the quality of my listening experience.
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