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Did you lose your AirPods?

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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by lxgr »

whstl wrote: post #213
b112 wrote: post #207

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Well you're paying for it, the app store fees alone make it worth while for Apple. I do wonder, with the changes slowly trickling down the pipe, will Apple's fees over then next few years slowly diminish? And if so, what of their support quality (which is financed via funds from app store fees)?

I don't think I have bought an App in the AppStore in years, so the only money they're getting for me was from the device I buy every 5 years or so.

Phone support for devices usually ends a couple of months after the purchase date as far as I know, or has that changed?

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by ErigmolCt »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #145

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…

It must have been both amusing and frustrating to watch your lost AirTag go on its own international adventure

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by ErigmolCt »

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…

It’s rare to hear (for my ears) such a perfect outcome when it comes to lost tech

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by wcunning »

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…

Area Code 810 is the Thumb of Michigan, including some of central Michigan, so it's not all 8XX. Unsure how they draw the line, but 800 and 888 are the two that I see businesses use for toll free calling.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by radicality »

seb1204 wrote: post #296
radicality wrote: post #254

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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.

Maybe I’m just jaded/untrusting, but the message reminded me of the initial opening text from various wrongnumber/pig-butchering scams.

https://maxread.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-all-those...

Discussion of above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949731

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by bombcar »

ornornor wrote: post #345
boomboomsubban wrote: post #130

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Valuing your time at $20 an hour, that's 8 hours worth of time for them. If the remote hiking spot is ~2 hours away, and it takes roughly an hour to deal with the park authorities, that's already 5 hours, plus transport. Add in the inconvenience of not having them for somewhere between a few days and forever, and I'd also say they aren't really cheap but still it probably isn't worth the effort in that situation.

I wouldn’t necessarily have worked these 8 hours for 160$ after tax, I’d have gone to pick them up.

If I was certain that I would find them when I went back to look for them I would do it. It’s worth the time, but if the chance of finding them is only like 50% not worth the time, new one’s are probably better and have better battery life anyway. sour grapes perhaps yes

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by agumonkey »

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

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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).

In my case I only own cheap aukey earbuds and so far I couldn't find any information about buying a single earbud

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Post by eszed »

Uptrenda wrote: post #201
gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #80

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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.

I use tape, or bluetack. Bluetack is easiest for the external connectors, but a wodge of tape, properly manipulated, can get the internal ones. Can be a bit of a pain, but it's never not worked.

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Post by thowawatp302 »

throwway_278314 wrote: post #339
bps4484 wrote: post #323

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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.

I remember the happy days when a telephone number (also an email) was a ephemeral, changeable thing. Not a permanent unchanging form of ID. Alas, if you move out of the country for a period of time, it is a challenge to maintain the host country phone service. So there are no guarantees that you can hold on to that signifier of "this is where I was the last time I wanted to get a new phone subscription". So the tatto…

When was that? My parent’s landline number stayed unchanged for 20 years. Through moves, too (with the caveat they stayed in the service area of the CO.)
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