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This is a reddit post about a "news" article about a reddit post.

Here's the source quoted: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/zcvsvy/thank_you_apple_for_sos/

Not about apple my friend, it’s the fact that REDDIT IS THEIR ONLY SOURCE!

Jesus Christ they’re making news articles based off Reddit post now…can’t believe someone gets paid for that kind of lazy journalism, must be easy money.

I would be upset, but it's /r/gadgets.

Really, it's my own fault for still being subbed here.

UNiTE.

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The wiring in your walls is probably rated for 15 amps, depending on when your house was built the gauge and length of that wire run will vary. Along that wire run there are multiple plug sockets - again, number will vary with age of home.

Let's say your toaster is plugged into the last socket on that wire that runs back to the breaker box in your house - so it's using the full length of the wire. You turn it on and the heating coil wants to pull 15 Amps (1800 watts on a 120v) to heat up. So on one end of the long wire, you have 1800 watts being pulled, and the other end your breaker box - and that's the full capacity of the wire.

So what happens when something plugged into one of the sockets along the run is needing to draw power? Weird stuff! The voltage and power availability is affected by what's called "sag" and it's having to fight against the draw of the heating coil. If you wanted to make it even more funky, plug a motor like a blender into the same circuit - as many people do in the kitchen.

Basically, you're going from the illusion of how electricity works ("you plug it in and it just works") to the reality of how electricity works ("holy crap connecting a bunch of high power devices with thin bits of wire causes problems").

Woozle effect

The primary power draws in your home are heating, cooling, and large appliances like washers, dryers, fridges, dishwashers, and hot water heaters. Those are the places to look if you have a high power bill and want to save money.

You can also address things like heat loss - for example, adding weatherstripping to old windows to seal up gaps, and adding a heavy thermal-liner curtain, can significantly lower your heating bills. Replace all light bulbs in your home with energy-efficient LEDs and check any appliance older than 20 years with a power meter to see if it's in line with modern standards - some will be fine, some will be wildly overusing and can be replaced to save yourself money.

I literally work at a hospital, and at no point have I said these aren’t issues.

Just that the attitude “less calls is better” when there are people who would actively choose to not call a service based on this prejudice because they don’t deem themselves worthy of the effort.

This gonna snitch next time I feel like hittin and runnin?

Major Havoc ftw

Bruh have you worked any emergency response or hospital positions. It's abused, over worked and under-staffed. Having people use 911 or the ER for actual emergencies as opposed to a taxi or get away is a very fair criticism of our collapsing medical and emergency response system.

I don’t think that’s the point tho

Ah yes, "journalism" that gets it's source from α reddit comment. The pinnacle of credibility right here folks.

Your comment is kind of misleading. Having a transformer is kind of irrelevant. The truth of the statement is anything that creates heat in direct use of the appliance. So yeah, hair dryers, kettles, shit like that. A transformer just changes voltage, and the power supplies you mentioned aren’t even referred to as “transformers”. They’re actually switch mode power supplies. They have small transformers in them, but that’s not the primary component of the device either.

Before Steve died, he said he wanted to do to TV what he had done to music.

Sounds like when dogs can detect that a diabetic person’s blood sugar is too low based on the vapor weight of the air around them. It’s fuckin wild

Not surprising :(

I think the impact it detects has to be pretty significant. Like, you’ve got driving focus right? It detects the iPhone moving because the car is moving. Which is why often times driving focus will activate for passengers. It doesn’t distinguish between driver & passenger.

If it detects the iPhone in motion, then suddenly — BAM — the phone is stationary, it could trigger the detection.

They demonstrated this in a granted, factionalized context on a recent episode of one of the Law & Order iterations. Chris Meloni’s character was in a tight spot, borrowed the phone from a fellow detective, and chucked it as far as he could outside of a dead zone. Phone detected a sudden cessation of movement and automatically dialed 911.

Again, that’s obviously fictionalized, but they got the idea from the real world tech.

Yeh but findmyphone already exists and can be shared with family.

Not saying you’re wrong, I see this technology could be very beneficial.

😂 fuck we really are doomed, corporations just write their own news now

Location sharing is an option

Good point also, but that would require access to their account assuming it works like android.