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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by mypalmike on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:56AM (#31947238)
I'm curious what theoretical mechanism might there be for an airpods case to be findable?
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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by compiler-guy on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:51AM (#31948184)
AirPod cases have Bluetooth and report battery levels to the paired iPhone.

From there, one could imagine it working like any other Bluetooth tracker.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by Nextgrid on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:06PM (#31952072)
I'm not sure cases have Bluetooth - I think they use either of the inserted AirPods as a proxy to communicate its status to the phone (the power pins must have a minimal communication protocol to allow the case to talk to the pods).
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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by compiler-guy on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:05PM (#32020797)
Even with only that, they could have a “last place seen” feature.
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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by robonerd on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:57PM (#31949334)
He merely needs to apply Bayesian search theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory

1. Formulate as many reasonable hypotheses as possible about what may have happened to the object.

2. For each hypothesis, construct a probability density function for the location of the object.

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