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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by ravenstine »

pcf wrote: post #287
ravenstine wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sometimes wear my airpods in the shower. Have gotten water in them often, but this never caused them to fail or be permanently damaged.

Out of curiosity – why do you wear them in the shower? Are they meant to withstand that?

The first few times were by accident, but once I realized they are durable enough I started wearing them sometimes while showering if I've got a good audiobook or YT video that I don't want to put down.

I think they're supposed to withstand some degree of moisture, but I don't believe they're designed specifically to be submerged. However, one of mine (gen 2 airpods) got fully submerged for maybe 3 seconds in the bathtub but it managed to start working again when I let it dry out.

I'm not saying I recommend others treat their AirPods as if they're water resistant but, in my experience, all the generations of AirPods can take a bit of a water beating. The only ones I've never done this with are any of the Pro models.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by jedberg »

It feels like Apple could help solve this. Make it a feature that if you find a device you can bring it near your phone and it will automatically set up a two way anonymous iMessage session.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by CountHackulus »

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…

> Usually not. You can ask your provider for a new number in a different city and they will issue it. Most Canadian providers are country-wide so you don't need to switch provide if you don't want to.

There's a way around this that I've done a few times. You port the number to VOIP (I use voip.ms) and then you set up that number to forward to whatever the new number you get given. Dialing out you still get your new number, but people dialing you can use the old number.

This was super handy when I had to move my mom from a retirement home in one city to another city a province away.

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by mackmgg »

nimih wrote: post #49
ww520 wrote: post #38

Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.

I own a pair of AirPods and AirPod Pros; I bought the former in 2019, and was gifted the latter in 2020. The microphone on the AirPods died after about 18 months of use, but they otherwise still work perfectly (perhaps with slightly degraded, but still quite serviceable, battery life), and have survived a wide range of abuse (multiple trips through the washing machine, repeated drops onto pavement, in some cases from…

I had the same thing happen to my Pros, with one being much louder than the other and the noise cancelling barely working, and it turns out they just needed cleaning. A couple years of gunk and dust getting in the vents and speaker grill and one of them was noticeably worse than the other. After cleaning it turns out both were quite degraded and are now much better with fully functioning noise cancellation. Worth a try if they're otherwise good and you want to keep using them.

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Post by rootusrootus »

denysvitali wrote: post #350
rootusrootus wrote: post #333

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> My problem with this is that no-one else other than Google and Apple can build an "open" network - you'd have to find a way to push your code to everyone's devices. If you want a non-Apple, non-Google solution, you go to the OG tracker tag -- Tile. You have to install their app, so the reach won't be nearly as extensive, but that is fine by me -- the last thing I want is a third party developer able to push code to…

Yes - but my point for that wasn't about allowing anyone to push anything on random devices. It was about the market penetration of those two companies. Tile, as you mentioned, will never get any reach since users have to opt-in to start contributing to the location data, making their network incredibly smaller compared to Apple's or Google's own networks. If you're Tile - you have no way to start such a network beca…

What would the alternative be except for there to be no network at all? Regulation to force interoperability between all mobile operating systems?

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Post by denysvitali »

rootusrootus wrote: post #386
denysvitali wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes - but my point for that wasn't about allowing anyone to push anything on random devices. It was about the market penetration of those two companies. Tile, as you mentioned, will never get any reach since users have to opt-in to start contributing to the location data, making their network incredibly smaller compared to Apple's or Google's own networks. If you're Tile - you have no way to start such a network beca…

What would the alternative be except for there to be no network at all? Regulation to force interoperability between all mobile operating systems?

A protocol that allows the beacon to define which endpoint is used to forward the encrypted location data.

Alternatively (since the adv data is limited), a "routing" endpoint that allows custom endpoints to be defined depending on the network ID.

There are plenty of possible implementations that would allow for a fair market in this regard, but I don't think Apple or Google would ever introduce them, unless forced to

Re: Did you lose your AirPods?

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Post by SllX »

jsjohnst wrote: post #265
SllX wrote: post #169

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Could be either/or. I long ago lost the brassiere that came with my AirPods Max (not really lost, I just can’t be arsed to dig it out of where I think it is) and they’ll drain themselves fairly quickly just trying to throw out stray connections to any of the five or so devices they can connect to unless I make a point of disconnecting them. AirPods Pro exhibit the same exact symptoms when the contact inside the case…

There’s a magnetic contact that the “bra” case engages that turns off the headphones so the battery doesn’t needlessly drain. Bunch of companies make after market cases/covers, you should get one of them at least.

I am aware of how it works, that's why I front-loaded the part about the brassiere being MIA at the moment. I just don't care, and I don't take it outside except on the airplane. Next flight I have, I'll probably dig out the brassiere.

Also in my experience, the brassiere was never perfect about guaranteeing the AirPods Max were put perfectly into a sleep state. The same exact issue could sometimes occur, maybe an alignment issue. The AirPods Max sound fantastic, but there's a lot of little details about them where Apple just kind of dropped the ball.

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Post by sneak »

radicality wrote: post #258
sneak wrote: post #122

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So much for end to end encryption that is unreadable by Apple.

I do believe apple’s e2e encryption promises on iMessage content, and don’t think it should interfere with their ability to control for spam / bad actors. But I also expect them to know the sender/receiver, and I imagine if I click “Delete and Report Junk” button, that I would probably submit the unencrypted contents of that whole conversation to Apple. And they should have also have metrics of total sends vs reporte…

The vast majority of iMessages (99%+), including normal/unreported ones, are readable by Apple because either the iMessages themselves or the iMessage cross-device sync keys are escrowed to Apple in the non-e2ee iCloud Backup. In the latter case the messages are readable in realtime.

This is documented (not the 99% figure, but the situation) by Apple in knowledge base articles on the apple.com website.

The e2ee in iMessage is effectively irrelevant, as for most people, most of the time, it functions just like Telegram (which is not e2ee).

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Post by tdeck »

tdeck wrote: post #34

I'm a little surprised you got lucky with the erroe code. For most people my age our area code seems to be tied to where we lived in about 2006, which is often not where we live now.

Weirdest typo ever. I really wish we could edit comments for dumb things like this.
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