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You don't keep a real flashlight next to your bed?
You don’t keep a real camera next to your bed? What about a two-way radio? MP3 player?
They all even share a unified battery charging mechanism and integrated packaging for easy portability.
I'm not sure if the idea of these pocket supercomputers will ever catch on, but it sure seems like it'd be nice.
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Might be I did something wrong, but even with YouTube video running via iPhone Mirroring device still went to reboot.
Hmm, yeah that seems wrong. I don't get reboots on devices I use frequently; I think it is only supposed to kick in when the device is not in use for a long time (it is meant to stop police who have a locked device they will try to brute force into).
7 days timeout on was introduced in iOS 18, but then decreased to 3 days. I dont use this device physically - it's just a phone that always connected to power and sit on top of mac mini for debugging and running some ios exclusive apps.
And I honestly dont do anything remotely interested to the police to worry about it. Yet it all just worked and now it doesnt.
They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years
I'd claim that Microsoft pioneered this time limit security concept with Windows 95 almost 30 years ago. They went with 2^32-1 milliseconds or about 49.7 days. We don't talk enough about Microsoft's strong legacy of security innovations, IMHO.
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But all I want is "Please dont reboot my phone! Very please!" setting in options.
might have to resort to the homer j drinking bird to tap the screen (for reference https://youtu.be/R_rF4kcqLkI?t=174 )
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Probably a good time as any to replace it with something purpose-built anyway. A Raspberry Pi with a directional microphone and a custom app feeding said microphone data to a service like AudD or ACRCloud could readily do the trick without any of Android's extra baggage - though I do wonder how effective those services would be at detecting songs amid a bunch of background noise like Bop Spotter does via Shazam.
I think half the value of the phone here is the built-in battery
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Probably a good time as any to replace it with something purpose-built anyway. A Raspberry Pi with a directional microphone and a custom app feeding said microphone data to a service like AudD or ACRCloud could readily do the trick without any of Android's extra baggage - though I do wonder how effective those services would be at detecting songs amid a bunch of background noise like Bop Spotter does via Shazam.
I think half the value of the phone here is the built-in battery
I think the main advantage to using phones for random stuff is availability: We here on HN probably have a decent selection of old phones to pick from, so it doesn't cost any money at all to give a new purpose to one.
It's good to have an option like that, even being a default, but there definitively need a switch to disable that if it is your own will. It's not even necessarily that good enough against cops, because in a lot of shitty countries, even some pretending to be democratics, not disclosing or at least inputting your password might be a crime severely punished. If I'm not wrong, there was a guy that had to stay years in…
They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years
I'd claim that Microsoft pioneered this time limit security concept with Windows 95 almost 30 years ago. They went with 2^32-1 milliseconds or about 49.7 days. We don't talk enough about Microsoft's strong legacy of security innovations, IMHO.