Comment on Gillian Keegan pledges crackdown on mobiles in schools

• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ladies/Gents/People, could we take the insults out? Otherwise I’ll need to prune the comments. @13esq@lemmy.world @CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works

  Jammers are not a feasible option, but lets use this as a friendly place to educate, not just yell at each other.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because a signal jammer doesn’t work just in a range, these things jam by creating noise in a certain radius, but more often than not this noise acts like a wall and blocks signals outside the actual radius, and if you have the thing near a tower it blocks every connection to the tower. Jammers are illegal in almost every country because of that, imagine the things blocking emergency calls, among other very nasty problems.

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• shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope that range is the same shape as the classroom, and doesn’t leak out of doors and windows.

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• FatLegTed@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know you can get a signal blocker with a set range right?

  Can you point me to one of these? We could do with something like this for work and I’d like to give examples to the seniors - they’ll tell me to sod off but at least I can say I tried ;-)

  They won’t cough up to turn the office into a Faraday cage :-(

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