1458
Safety (lemmy.jtworld.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
271 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 17 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Is this normal that wife has a tracking gps on husband?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 14 child comments
    •
  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Sort of? If you are in a trusting relationship who cares? It's simply convenient to check where your spouse or kids are without having to wait for a response.

    The only reason me and my wife don't do it is because we don't trust the apps not to scoop up our location data and sell it to everyone.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Doesn't leaving location on drain phone battery at a higher rate?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not really. Your phone is already doing location checks every few minutes for a variety of reasons, so it doesn't really affect it unless you have rooted your phone and hunted down all the little bullshit things that trigger location checks.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You know you can just turn off location services right? Pretty sure even iPhone has the option

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You can turn off higher level location services at the OS level, but at the radio level the cellular network will always need a precise enough location to handle tower handoffs and timing issues between the tower and phone, as well as modern beam forming techniques where the tower "aims" the signal at the phone. The simple act of the phone communicating with a specific tower tells the phone where it is (sometimes with surprisingly high precision).

    911/emergency services also use more low level location techniques, but I'm pretty sure those functions don't get called unless you dial an emergency number.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    Turning off your GPS will not turn off location sharing to Google or other people, it will just fall back to using cell towers and wifi. Admittedly, it will be much more inaccurate, but it will still try it's best. You can also turn off wifi and even data service itself to save energy. Although at that point you might as well just turn off the phone.
    But I wasn't talking about system level shutdowns. I want talking about in comparison to your standard level of activity. If you have your GPS on for anything like maps or anything else, you aren't going to see a noticeable difference with personal location sharing on.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Mine does, but that only started after a severe hypoglycemic incident during which I have no memory of about 2 hours, drove about ten miles, wrecked my car, and was found on a sidewalk. EMT report says my sugar was unmeasurably low and it took an IV and oral gel to get it up to 35, which is where it was when my memory comes back coherently. First thing I remember at that point was the sting of the IV in my arm and then my finger, seeing the 35, the EMT noticing I was looking at him and getting a battery of general awareness questions.

    I would ask about the “again” on the chemical weapons in the toilet thing, but I was the kid that played with low grade explosives and chemistry “projects” at that age. Got annoyed when my homemade napalm was caustic enough it started to eat through the container I’d made it in.

    EDIT: Holy fuck my spelling was bad on this one.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    So just cause I can't tell this story very often. One time when I was hit in the head particularly hard in middle school when the teachers were trying to give general awareness questions one of the ones I was close to asked "Tell me about the Mycenaean Greece" because he knew I can unironically bullshit those questions in my actual sleep. So I rant for about 5 minutes look at my hands say give me a few and proceed to zone the fuck out for about 10 minutes before growling out "Aight and we're back" which is around when I actually have memories of the incident.

    According to one of the security guys who basically had the job of keeping us from making chemical weapons in the toilet again, it was probably the most bizarre thing he had seen since Iraq. He was an Army medic veteran.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I would ask about the "again" on the chemical weapons in the toilet thing, but I was the kid that played with low grade explosives and chemistry "projects" at that age. Got annoyed when my homemade napalm was caustic enough it started to eat through the container I'd made it in.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The actual story is that a couple of guys broke into a cleaning locker that was in the bathroom (school was old had weird set up) wherein some of the dumber smart guys decided to mix ammonia and bleach in a toilet. Funny enough I was the source of that problem and also how it was noticed because I spread the knowledge of that particular bit of chemistry, and was laughing my ass off at the fact that the toilet was at that point actively hazard due to mustard gas.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I just got a new iPhone. It offers the option during setup, to leave your location on for your designated family. I left the box checked yes because it was the default and I had no strong feelings about it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent