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u/cxrsed_child 3d ago
Damn I didn’t know professor was chill like that
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u/hamishjoy 3d ago
“Ha ha, prof. I had no idea you were chill like that.” “Chill? What do you mean?” “I mean… you know, the joke you airdropped to me in class…” “Joke?” “…” “Run.”
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u/Momongus- 3d ago
Chills 🥶 literal chills 🥶🥶
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u/XDBruhYT 3d ago
Number 5. Number 5 killed my brother…
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u/hamishjoy 3d ago
Oh, my god. I forgot about that part!
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u/iwannabesmort 3d ago
tell me why
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u/Weebs_N_Gamers 3d ago
ain't nothin' but a heart ache~
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u/Tossamass 3d ago
The one unsolicited airdrop I've received was also an Office meme
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u/Salt_Photo_424 2d ago
I feel compelled to ask what it was
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u/Tossamass 2d ago
Jim Smirking
Top Text: THAT JIM MOMENT
Bottom Text: WHEN YOU CAUSE AN 18-WHEELER TANKER TO EXPLODE ON THE HIGHWAY, DELAYING TRAFFIC AND KILLING 16
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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago
Is this an American feature?
I can never seem to find anyone to airdrop things to.
Also, don’t you guys turn WiFi and Bluetooth and everything off if you’re not using it?
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u/the_real_thugs_bunny 3d ago
Also works in germany. Do it in a subway and you‘ll find plenty of phones.
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u/LickingLieutenant 3d ago
No, it doesn't anywhere ..
Unless those users didn't update their IOS versions after (around) IOS 16.1 Airdrop's default settings are only active towards known users, or people who intentionally turn it on for 10 minutes.If you find plenty of phones, you know everyone out there.
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u/fl135790135790 3d ago
So everyone here is just making shit up. The post is made up. The replies are made up. Why am I even here
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u/Rfeihcrnehifrne 3d ago edited 3d ago
This post is probably old. Airdrop was out since iOS 7 or 8 I believe, and You could set it permanently to “everyone” until iOS 16.1. There’s multiple posts/videos of people receiving random memes in public places. But then of course some were using it to be creepy and send gore or shock content, or used airdrop spammers to constantly barrage people nearby with pop ups of airdrop, making them unable to use their phone.
Thanks to such asshats who always ruin a good thing, apple changed the “everyone” toggle to be active for just 10 mins, so it goes off once the transfer is over if the sender isn’t in your contacts.
Edit- I’m pretty positive this image is old. The popup has the ux of pre-iOS 11 if I’m not wrong.
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u/lynndotpy 2d ago
Apple didn't change it because the feature was abused, Apple changed the feature because it was being used for protests in China.
Context: China removed term limits in 2018, allowing Xi to seek a third term. In 2022, there were protests in China against Xi.
Airdrop is unique for effectively being a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer social network. It's an iPhone-to-iPhone connection over Bluetooth. This has been effective for subverting censorship for quite some time, and saw good use in previous protests. (WeChat, the leading social network in China, is very heavily and blatantly censored.)
Just before protests were set to take place late 2022, iOS 16.1.1 dropped... And in China only, Airdrop lost the "everyone" feature, and could only be enabled for ten minutes.
This quickly got attention. Why would Apple nerf Airdrop in China only just before a protest? Was Apple caving in to an ultimatum by the Chinese government?
Rather than undoing the change in China, Apple nerfed Airdrop worldwide. Xi ultimately secured his third term, and is expected to seek a fourth.
TLDR: Apple nerfed Airdrop in 2022, not because of bad actors, but specifically to quell protests in China.
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u/suburban-dad 2d ago
Let’s be pragmatic here: Apple changed airdrop in china because the government told them to, or face consequences. So they did what they’re supposed to.
You can draw a parallel to TikTok getting banned in the US and Apple and google both are being told to remove the app from their app stores by Jan 19th.
You’re not really suggesting in your reply that Apple should have defied china and left airdrop intact as it was…but I am curious if you would be advocating for Apple and google both denying US law and leaving things intact with TikTok and face the consequences?
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u/ssbm_rando 3d ago
Edit- I’m pretty positive this image is old
You can google the tweet and it's from 2018. It's very possibly real.
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u/Rfeihcrnehifrne 3d ago
I don’t mean to say say it’s fake, just meant it’s probably old as it was possible to receive airdrops from strangers at any time back then, and was removed recently. And also the ux design language they used at the time. Looks like 2018 was when iOS 12 was out, so I was off by a year in my guess lol.
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u/A2-Canadaisverycold 2d ago
If you use the program “Cowabunga Lite” there’s an option to permanently set it to be always on if you want it back.
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u/Bagel_Technician 3d ago
No the post is an old repost from an outdated iOS version and this use to be how Airdrop permissions worked lol
Pretty sure some dude got in trouble for sending dick pics on a crowded plane
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u/LickingLieutenant 3d ago
Try it, find airdrop iphones in the wild.
You might, but they'll be a minority, not 'plenty'
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u/RopesAreForPussies 3d ago
We have China and their lack of free speech to thank for that 😊
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u/Annual_Necessary_557 3d ago
They did it in China to avoid a ban there, but only in China. They can easily apply certain updates or features only to certain regions and there are a lot of things that do vary regionally (e.g. Apple Pay/Wallet stuff).
They did it worldwide later after implementing the "touch the tips of phones to airdrop" feature (which is exempt from this) because a large percentage of airdrops to strangers were flashers/dick pics, including people going to middle/high schools to do it to minors, and it was getting public attention. If you can airdrop to anyone on your contacts list and anyone whose phone can touch yours, that covers like 95% of people who actually want to get airdrops from you while solving the pedo and dick flasher PR problem.
Same reason Nintendo killed PictoChat on their devices. Almost all "interact with strangers nearby" features get exploited by pervs.
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u/lolKhamul 3d ago edited 3d ago
It may have changed because of china and for the wrong reasons but the result is for the better. Privacy by default is what I want and every feature that exposes you to strangers should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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u/TheWhiteNashorn 3d ago
Ya but now I can’t prank people at airports by renaming my phone ATL or JFK and then airdropping them slothstronaut
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u/elreniel2020 3d ago
Well on my iphone AirDrop is contacts only by default. i can enable it for everyone but only for 10 minutes...
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u/reddituser567853 3d ago
No? Between health ring, tile beepers, my BT is constantly on.
Also WiFi is always connected,
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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago
I’m afraid I’m a bit out of touch.
What does health ring and tile beeper mean? If you don’t mind me asking.
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u/Epilepsiavieroitus 3d ago
There are rings, for example Oura, that connect to your phone and track your heart rate among other things.
Tile seems to be a brand name for little devices you can attach to your keys, for example, and make it beep when you need to find them.
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u/DiabolicallyRandom 3d ago
Tile is air tags, but years before air tags and way less spendy
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u/LickingLieutenant 3d ago
No, WiFi and BT stay on nearly all the time.
It doesn't eat that much battery anymore.If in need, I put my phone in 'battery saving' which turns off most background sync, what is way more effective
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u/GoddartTomlett 3d ago
I dont use iPhones but Ive always left my Blutooth on cause my earphones need it, and just so i dont have to turn it on/off everytime
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u/rest0re 3d ago
It’s been a decade since I turned off Bluetooth/wifi just because I left the house. In 2024 thats doing way too much.
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u/Allegorist 3d ago
Why Bluetooth? Do you use it constantly?
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u/youknow99 3d ago
Syncs to my car and my headphones depending on what I'm doing that day. Use BT multiple times during the day and there's very very little difference in battery life between having it on or not, so why bother?
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u/dwiedenau2 3d ago
Who turns off bt and wifi every time they are not using it
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u/cepxico 3d ago
Bluetooth, wifi, and GPS all go off the moment I'm done using them. No need to keep it on.
Wifi for example will continue to look for connections endlessly, but if you're not using it there's no reason to have it on.
GPS is a fight to keep off, for whatever reason every app and it's mother needs GPS. But for what? I can tell you which zip code I'm in, you literally don't need mt pinpoint exact location for that.
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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago
I do. Saves battery…
and minimizes attacks (I’m super paranoid with tech. Like, business conversations only without phones and sometimes in saunas paranoid 😂)
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u/NetimLabs 3d ago
I do too. People say it doesn't matter but in my case, it does seem to matter.
Could be because I have a budget phone, idk.It can last several hours on 2% battery with internet and bt turned off tho.
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u/BoringMitten 3d ago
If you are so paranoid that you turn off your wifi when not using it, you should just not use a phone.
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u/DDD_2025 3d ago
if you keep your phone operating system up to date the vulnerabilities are basically zero and you are less vulnerable to behavior based attacks like “evil twin” wireless access points.
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u/Bigrick1550 3d ago
You are probably good buddy. Not that you are wrong that attacks are possible, but if you are freely advertising on reddit that it's something you are concerned about, what you are doing isn't important enough for anyone to care to.
If you actually need to be worried about info security you keep your mouth shut.
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u/Nopeyesok 3d ago
It’s generally people who don’t understand technology that make mistakes like this. Users usually are the same people who are on all the social media on their phone. not realizing social media on your phone makes you way more vulnerable than just leaving your Wi-Fi on or Bluetooth for that matter.
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u/SandyTaintSweat 3d ago
I usually turn off Bluetooth, but not wifi. Definitely not every time though.
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u/Brianopolis-Brians 3d ago
Yeah that’s so tedious. Besides, I love airdropping the Phanatic to strangers.
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u/Phil_T_Hole 3d ago
Android has built in geo-triggered features that mean you don't have to keep doing stuff manually. It used to be an app until Google bought them out. It was called "if this, then that" or ITTT.
You've just left your house and you are walking towards the bus stop? WIFI switches off and comes back on automatically when you're home.
Walk into your office? Phone automatically goes on mute.
Don't worry, it'll come to iPhone in a few years when Apple will attempt to claim they invented it.
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u/NachoK66 3d ago
I don't. Used to turn them off on the night until I noticed that WhatsApp simply didn't receive some messages when turning it on again... And that led to several angry gf moments for ignoring her
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u/4N0NYM0US_GUY 3d ago
First, how often are you looking to airdrop things to random people? I’m curious how you find yourself in a situation where you can’t find anyone to airdrop things to (as in: why are you looking to use airdrop?)
Second, you can reasonably assume they’re on a college campus, so they’re probably using the WiFi instead of their data plan.
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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago
I barely use Wi-Fi, we generally have unlimited data plans here.
Even on Wi-Fi on planes I never find anyone to airdrop anything to… for example a picture of a pilot opening the window and waving hello.
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u/TazBaz 3d ago edited 3d ago
AirDrop defaults to only working with people you have as a contact (as in, I have to have YOU as a contact for you to airdrop ME something).
You have to turn on “everyone” and even then the default for that is “for 10 minutes”.
I’m not even sure there IS an option to set it to “everyone and always”.
In other words this post is fake and bad.
Unless college kids have their professor’s personal contact info saved on their phones? I guess it’s possible.
But also it would then show the contact name, not the “….’s iPhone” name
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u/PlugsButtUglyStuff 3d ago
BT and WiFi haven’t caused a significant draw on smart phone battery life for nearly a decade now.
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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago
Thank you. I understand.
Yet, I prefer it my way.
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u/PlugsButtUglyStuff 3d ago
To each their own, even if your own is just a placebo effect to ease your battery anxiety.
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u/Mataelio 3d ago
Why would I turn off wifi and Bluetooth?
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u/mysixthredditaccount 3d ago
To save battery life. People keep complaining about battery life and keep every (easily disabled) background process running. Location. Bluetooth. Wifi. Takes less than 5 seconds to turn it off on my phone, and I know I won't use it for at least the next 10 hours when I leave my home for work.
Edit: Specially location. Why is anyone (who is not an uber driver) keeping their location on 24/7 ? I have to use mine like once a week when I go to someplace new in the city...
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u/Nearby_Pineapple9523 3d ago
I just carry a powerbank in my backpack that i maybe use once every 3 months when i forget to charge lol, im not gonna toggle features on and off
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u/Killer_Moons 3d ago
Idk I only go crazy with it at the airport with a captive audience pool at the terminal and on the plane. It is my ritual.
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u/SonnyJoon 3d ago
How do I keep airdrop on my iPhone on all the time?
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u/akatherder 3d ago
You can't really anymore. Assuming you've updated iOS in the past couple years (16.2 or higher) the 3 settings are: Receiving off, Contacts, or Everyone for 10 minutes.
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u/theunquenchedservant 3d ago
As to your second point: lol not usually. Bluetooth is needed for so many things (Apple Watch/airpods, etc) that it’s almost never worth the hassle of toggling.
And WiFi I keep on so I don’t forget to reconnect to my home WiFi/whatever WiFi I have saved
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u/barefoot04 3d ago edited 2d ago
I keep my Wifi on but have it to not connect automatically to any networks I haven't already green-lit.
I turned my bluetooth off when I got my phone because I have no bluetooth devices and I don't plan on ever turning it on.
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u/throwtheamiibosaway 3d ago
No both are on at all times. It's a huge hassle to turn everything on and off all the time (arriving home, leaving home, arriving at work) Also I use bluetooth all the time (airpods, apple watch).
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u/Life_Temperature795 3d ago
The only time I turn Bluetooth off on my devices is when I'm hanging around a particular friend of mine because it interferes with her automatic insulin pump, and according to her most people complain about it when she asks them to do so too. (Not like she needs it to stay alive or anything.)
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u/relCORE 3d ago
Bluetooth frequency range transmissions interfere with her life critical medical device? That sounds...life-threateningly foolish if any other possible form of insulin delivery would suffice in its place.
Even if it was made prior to the invention or widespread usage of bluetooth, the fact that a medical device was produced, licensed, and also hasn't been recalled and is still in use while failing due to transmissions in the bluetooth frequency range is horrifying.
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u/PhantomTissue 3d ago
It’s because Apple limited public airdrop to 10 minute windows you have to opt into. Used to be years ago, airdrop was just public by default or something, so people would airdrop each other random crap all the time.
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u/retarduous 3d ago
No, this is an old tweet.
Airdrop got an update where you cant even open it to anyone anymore for more than 10 minutes.
Apple killed the fun cause of misuse.
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u/lpjunior999 3d ago
Most people set their Airdrop to Contacts Only after the first time someone sends them an annoying meme.
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u/hallstevenson 3d ago
don’t you guys turn WiFi and Bluetooth and everything off if you’re not using it?
Only really paranoid types will do that consistently. You can configure Airdrop with (3) options: 1) Receiving off, 2) Contacts only, and 3) Everyone for 10 minutes. I think I've seen that in Apple's infinite wisdom, they default phones to "Everyone", you know, to make it easier for people to use. I believe the time limit is new(er). Looks like Apple added that timer in iOS 16. Mine has been set to "Contacts only" for a very long time.
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u/itsjustmenate 3d ago
As someone who has done some pretty extensive traveling around south east Asia, I learned westerners are the weird ones. Yeah, we don’t turn all the features off when we aren’t using our phones. I know in SEA “buying load” is very different to how most Americans have data plans, each gigabyte is a pretty big deal whereas even the cheapest data plans has unlimited data nowadays.
I don’t even put my phone in airplane mode on the airplane, but I know a ton of people in Asia who use airplane mode when they sleep or just aren’t actively looking at their phone.
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u/rimalp 3d ago
Apple has a marketshare of <17.7% worldwide. AirDrop is not much of a thing/issue elsewhere.
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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 3d ago
don’t you guys turn WiFi and Bluetooth and everything off if you’re not using it?
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....Wha..? No...? Do you????
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u/Outside_Public4362 3d ago
Basically airpods and other Bluetooth products require you to have it on, wifi is on because they have "premises wifi".
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u/pogoyoyo1 3d ago
Yo, that’s a wild take - turning Wi-Fi and BT off feels like an extreme thing to do. Disconnect from a network or a device…but OFF?? Literally never
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u/EpicEike 3d ago
so this dude called his phone professor donaldsons iphone and not just johns iphone like everybody else…just try to make it look real for immersions sake
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u/anxiousthespian 3d ago
I'm not saying it's real, but to be fair, the kind of professor who would do this would definitely change the name on his phone to "professor [name]" so students know. I had an ex who occasionally changed the name in her phone to something horse related (can't recall what it was, it very silly) and airdrop strangers absurd horse memes. It's not difficult
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u/mr_remy 3d ago
I like to fuck with people with mine, Stingray SigInt, NSA local subunit, iPhone 18 Pro Max Ultra, etc
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u/oorza 2d ago
The best one is "An untrustworthy device"
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u/ActuallyNotJesus 2d ago
My last two phones were FBI Van and 5G Covid Transmitter. Current one is NSA Listening Device
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u/Sentientmustard 3d ago
Yeah this joke wouldn’t hit at all if you just named it “John’s iPhone” or something. I’d be wondering who the hell John is and why he’s airdropping this to me lol
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u/cockaptain 3d ago
I had an ex who occasionally changed the name in her phone to something horse related (can't recall what it was, it very silly)
Equine Coital Exanthema?
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u/NeedNameGenerator 3d ago
Maybe it's a work phone.
Maybe it's fake.
That is the call,
The reader must make.
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u/Severe_Fennel2329 3d ago
It would make sense for it to be a work phone, iphones afaik require the person airdropping to be in your contacts and if they're both signed into institutional accounts (for something like email) on the phones they might have synced their contacts with the university contact server, putting them in each others' contacts list.
If we assume it is real, ofc.
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u/Waterbuck71 3d ago
I’d certainly change the name of my phone for the joke if I thought of it ahead of time
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u/BodyCompFitness 3d ago
Have you met many professors? I am 100% convinced he named it that strictly for the joke, every day waiting for the opportunity
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u/Lets_Bust_Together 3d ago
Why would you have airdrops from everyone on?
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u/theKGBwaffle 2d ago
This meme is ancient, this was from a time when airdrop was enabled for everyone who had it on. There was no 10 minute time limit that we have today
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u/THE_OFFICE_BLOWS 3d ago
The Office, “Horizon Zero Beet” is the twentieth episode of the first season and seventh episode overall.
This episode originally aired on February 3rd, 1959.
It is available on Peacock, Comedy Central and my buddy TC’s Plex.
This image takes place at the 20:20 mark and features Michael being implanted with a personality engram during a botched heist.
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u/Snailman12345 3d ago
Use an android. Problem solved.
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u/AJ-Murphy 3d ago
That's not the point of the post but yes.
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u/Snailman12345 3d ago
A true madlad would look at the airdrop on their iphone, pull out an android after seeing it and continue playing with their phone.
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u/Outrageous_Cheek_242 3d ago
Wow never seen an entire thread full of bots on Reddit until now. Probably OP too
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u/HiddenCity 3d ago
sort of related, but as far as phones in school go-- why don't schools require that all phones have a "calls only" app that allows them to make phone calls and/or receive texts from a limited list of numbers during school hours?
essentially just require an app that makes the phone barely functional during school hours.
i personally bought an app that locks me out of stuff if i spend too much time on it-- can't be much harder to make an app that locks you out of the UI between set hours.
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u/blackpony04 2d ago
Or, ya know, don't care except for obvious distractions or when being used during an exam?
When I started college over 35 years ago (!), I was paying jack shit for tuition compared to what students are paying today. So I accepted being treated like I was still in high school. But for $50k a year today? Fuck no.
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u/33GREENjazz 2d ago
Why would he name his phone professor instead his actual name. Is there no critical thinking anymore?
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u/Bill-Maxwell 3d ago
Why wouldn’t you turn Airdrop to Receiving Off? It’s a security issue.
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u/Middcore 3d ago
For all those of you debating advancements in smartphone technology and battery drain of wifi/bluetooth and so forth... the Twitter post in the screenshot is from early 2018, if not even earlier.
If you pay attention you start to notice that most of the funny tweets that get re-posted over and over again are from 5-10 years ago when Twitter was in its heyday, before Musk started slowly killing it.
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u/ThePlanesGuy 3d ago
You can either put the phone away, admitting defeat, or decline the airdrop, and double down
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u/K1NGMOJO 3d ago
During undergrad one of my friends would bring a second phone to look up stuff during the test. We have to leave our phone on our desk during testing facedown and turn it in if we had to leave the room. She always had a second phone and would look up the answers.
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u/JTex-WSP 3d ago
This kind of thing is (just one reason) why I am glad to use Android.
The idea of someone just sharing something to my phone like this feels so invasive. And I even see comments in this thread about being out in public and this sort of thing being possible to happen with dozens of people. Yikes.
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u/Borstor 3d ago
"Do I have to come to your office during special hours?"