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> 1. Put phone on 2.4ghz wifi (5GHZ WILL NOT WORK!) Might be nice to expand on "will not work". Wouldn't 5 GHz Wi-Fi failing to connect show that it's even better at blocking, and would easily block 2.45 GHz too? And I'd think that they should block 5 GHz too, since those meshes look quite fine, and they probably try to be extra-safe.
This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
But one could also use fridge for this test.
I kind of doubt an independent inventor could bring this to market with today's startup climate.
This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
Idk if OP is the person who wrote this, but on my device the red text about not turning the microwave on is not especially legible. I’d probably make that text a bit bigger and/or brighter. I expect most HN readers will know not to microwave a phone but you’d be surprised what people might do.
For the safety's sake, might be nice to also recommend to unplug the microwave oven altogether as the first step.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...
> 1. Put phone on 2.4ghz wifi (5GHZ WILL NOT WORK!) Might be nice to expand on "will not work". Wouldn't 5 GHz Wi-Fi failing to connect show that it's even better at blocking, and would easily block 2.45 GHz too? And I'd think that they should block 5 GHz too, since those meshes look quite fine, and they probably try to be extra-safe.
5GHz actually has worse penetration and stronger attenuation over distance than 2.4GHz. Succesfully blocking 5GHz does not imply the same for 2.4GHz. However I do agree that it's probably still gonna work because the faraday cages on microwaves are always overkill (even the cheap ones).
This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
So hard not to automatically press start. But one could also use fridge for this test.
This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
Funny how kitchen stuff was thought to be women's work once.
My bluetooth speaker always cuts out when nuker is on, but never notice any issues with wifi - wonder why.