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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you use a phone to detect a laptop in a car? If it’s on, sure I get it but if the laptop is asleep or off I can’t see how a phone will detect it?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Article said they were using Bluetooth and a app on play store / app store I assume the app measures the signal strength to determine the proximity to the devices. Maybe some laptops don't turn off Bluetooth in their sleep state or people just weren't putting their laptops to sleep? Could pickup tablets or phones forgotten in cars too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As he said, that only works if the device is on, which would be really odd in a car. I'm not aware of any that keep comms on in sleep, since those are typically high power draw.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Most MacBooks keep Bluetooth on when in sleep mode. There isn’t even a setting to stop it, the only option is to manually turn Bluetooth off before closing the lid or to use 3rd party software to automate turning it off.