On: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

[menacingly]

Many things give you wifi speed, if you're connected to wifi.

With Airdrop, if you are on the moon and meet a stranger there who also has an iphone, you can perform the high-speed transfer of large files.

[checkyoursudo → menacingly]

Will an iPhone work in a vacuum?

[ascagnel_ → checkyoursudo]

You’re kidding, but a working phone was found on the ground after the panel blew out of the Boeing a few weeks ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029806/boeing-737-max-9-...

I don’t think there’s anything in a phone that’d stop its core functions in a vacuum. The human trying to use it, not so much.

[checkyoursudo → ascagnel_]

I was kind of kidding, but I was also kind of intrigued by the idea. My instinct is that it would work in a vacuum, but that is just a gut feeling. But I also could not think of why one could not.

[project2501 → checkyoursudo]

Overheating could be a problem. cooling by thermal radiation alone maybe isn't enough

[asadalt → menacingly]

wouldn't it use bluetooth in that case? Or does it create adhoc wifi connections somehow?

[cmiller1 → asadalt]

It will use bluetooth for discovery and then establish an adhoc wifi connection between the two devices.