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clort on May 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positionin...

How does a faraday bag save battery? Normally I find that in areas of poor mobile signal, the phone ramps up the power to keep contacting towers and burns through the charge much quicker..

mrbluecoat on May 28, 2024 [–]

Same. Airplane mode works better for me in these scenarios.

fsflover on May 28, 2024 | [–]

Only if you trust that it does what it says.

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