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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by rplnt on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:14AM (#38662931)
Notice the difference in color when you do that. As the other comment pointed out, it only disconnects devices. Apple makes it hard for their users to disable bluetooth (or gps) so features like airtag work well.

You are sacrificing your battery life (and I guess privacy and security) for the ecosystem to work.

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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by cma on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:27AM (#38664022)
Google won't let you use GPS for maps without also turning on wifi for similar reasons I guess. It does make it more accurate but shouldn't be required.
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by slau on Saturday December 16, 2023 @09:10AM (#38664303)
Wasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by 0xDEADFED5 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:52PM (#38668089)
That's nonsense, Maps works perfectly fine with wifi off
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by cma on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:24AM (#38692829)
They might have changed it again, but it was a thing, I saw the prompts mentioned here too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865

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