That’s how it’s expected to work, yes. As does Samsung SmartTags, and Tiles. These tracking devices (that we purchase and opt-in for) are a net positive in most cases. How else would we expect them to work if not for Bluetooth beacons (and UWB)?
That’s how it’s expected to work, yes. As does Samsung SmartTags, and Tiles. These tracking devices (that we purchase and opt-in for) are a net positive in most cases. How else would we expect them to work if not for Bluetooth beacons (and UWB)?
Not automatically. You had to click ‘sign up for threads’. Still, it was very seamless and even let you auto follow those you had on Instagram, so the user count was definitely inflated. It’s not surprising the number of active users are way down.
Possibly. I reinstalled Jerboa already. Is lemmy.ml still overloaded? I keep getting “network error” when doing certain things like posting or upvoting. Sometimes even from just scrolling.
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+1 for Jerboa. Seems to be working well for me so far. A few odd bugs here and there, but I’m sure they’ll be squashed soon.
Yes, it is turned on by default. You can opt-out if you’d like. Here’s a pretty good article that covers it all: https://www.howtogeek.com/725842/what-is-apples-find-my-network/
Samsung SmartTags “Find” network is opt-in, which stagnated the growth of their network.
Tile’s network is naturally opt-in as it requires us to install the app, and therefore has the lowest coverage from my understanding.
I recall seeing the following approximate numbers:
Battery and data usage are negligible.