Technology

59581 readers

3011 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

356

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

109 comments fedilink hide all child comments

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I thought another reason was to avoid blasting everyone* you pass with your phone's maximum power signal while trying to reconnect.

Edit: the problem being interference, not any health effects. I read that the effectively one-way signals from the sky worked somewhat like a jammer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Cell phone radiation is negligible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I don't think even the combined power of all the phones in the plane would be enough to cause interference for anyone

The phone's modem is not powerful enough, it takes a couple watts at most, which is tiiny compared to what a cell tower can output