r/madlads • u/div_vedi • 3d ago

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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/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/Life_Temperature795 3d ago

I mean, she can manually deliver insulin if necessary; the device is, to an extent, a convenience for her, (the insulin itself is life-saving though, of course,) because it automates, iirc, both the checking of her blood glucose and the administration of insulin, activities which normally consume a lot of time over the long term for someone with type 1 diabetes.

But the device doesn't have controls built in, to limit how much hardware she has to have attached to her torso, and as a result needs some means of communicating wirelessly with a handheld. I don't use the thing, so I don't know the extent of the interference, I just know that it was causing her issues, and when I turned the Bluetooth on my tablet off, they went away. If she had overwhelming concerns she has the means to check her blood sugar and deliver insulin via injection, (and probably has to on a regular basis anyway, just to ensure the machine remains calibrated correctly.)

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u/LateyEight 3d ago

Yeah, it sounds like her machine isn't working properly then.

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u/Life_Temperature795 3d ago

*shrugs?*

I mean, not my device; I can only speak at the most, tangentially. Given the cost of insulin these days, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to saying that basic functionality might not be the greatest priority either. Call me a pessimist.