The Librem 5 is awesome

[FranklyFlawless]

Unfortunately such documentation is authwalled:

Find My network - Apple Developer

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[kazmroz]

To truly turn off your android, put it in a Faraday box; sold in Canada at Canadian Tire.

[FranklyFlawless]

Or the Purism x SLNT collaboration:

PurismFaraday Sleeves and Bags – Purism

[ASwyD2]

@Privacy2

on an old Android

Emphasize old

[Privacy2]

@ASwyD2

Emphasize old

I believe it’s true for my Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS too (i.e. newer Android) . However, I haven’t really tested that.

[carlosgonz]

@Privacy2

I believe it’s true for my Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS too (i.e. newer Android) . However, I haven’t really tested that.

Nice!. Enjoy the best Linux experience via Android/Linux Pixel 7a.

[FranklyFlawless]

@Privacy2

I’m not an iPhone expert, but the “Find my phone” feature only works when powered off if you set “Findable After Power Off”. Also, I’m skeptical that it is accessing the WiFi when powered off. The Apple resources say that when this is set, it still leaves power on to power bluetooth, UWB, and NFC … and the phone acts like an airtag would in terms of finding the location. They say it does not use wifi.

Find My * 101

[magician]

I’ve been looking into applications of being able to detect the distance of the Librem 5 from various other bluetooth devices, and have concluded that it is unreliable to do so via BT. I stumbled upon UWB, and was doing research, and found that the car companies all seem to be moving towards using it for detecting proximity, where-as bluetooth is used only for initial authentication.

Bluetooth you can use for proximity, but your accuracy is in a range of meters, whereas UWB accuracy is within a few centimeters. Anyways, hoping whatever version 2 of the Librem 5 or any Librem 1 (smartwatch), has UWB & NFC built in as well, they seem like they will be essential in the coming decade for various applications.