• shiroininja@lemmy.world
    28·
    11 months ago

    It’s super weird. Me and my coworkers all have AT&T, and none of their phones worked and mine worked perfectly the whole day.

    • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
      18·
      11 months ago

      Since we can make conspiracy out of anything let me ask.

      Do they have tic tok and do you have tic tok? Did you shower the morning of said outage?

      • shiroininja@lemmy.world
        12·
        11 months ago

        I’ve never had TikTok, and i showered.

        But I’m not saying it from a conspiracy angle, I’m viewing it from a huh, technology is weird sometimes angle. Or more like, I want to understand why from a technical standpoint.

        • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
          18·
          11 months ago

          There you go. It’s the tiktok. Conspiracy solved.

          Btw I’m just fuckin with you. I’m joking since everything tends to end up as a conspiracy with people.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      21·
      11 months ago

      Is you phone on 5G? I only ask because mine isn’t 5G capable (it is, but I haven’t flashed the US modems yet cause lazy), and I didn’t have a lick of downtime that day.

  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
    44·
    11 months ago

    Wasn’t there also a report today (I think) about an unusual level of sunspot activity? Without digging into it, I think I sort of just assumed they were related.

    I have AT&T fiber and a Verizon iPhone and I didn’t notice disruptions on either. My partner has an AT&T iPhone and didn’t notice any issues.

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
      6·
      11 months ago

      They are absolutely unrelated. If sunspot activity was significant enough, it would’ve affected more than just the one company.

      • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
        33·
        11 months ago

        Sure, unless there was a correlation between the technologies deployed by the individual companies and their vulnerabilities.

        I’m not saying there is in this case, but it’s a phenomenon we see all the time in systems ranging from technological to immunological. When network (social, computer, whatever) connect systems with correlated vulnerabilities, there can be cascading failures that do not spread outside those networks. It’s been so long (over 30 years) since I’ve even thought about RF and related systems that I have no idea what specific or proprietary technologies the major companies have, so I just shrugged it off as I was unaffected, and penciled in that there may have been a correlation with solar activity.

        • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
          6·
          11 months ago

          I acknowledge your reasoning, it’s just still quite a stretch to apply it to this particular scenario. We can apply Occam’s Razor here. What’s more likely? The company was using a completely unique infrastructure that was affected by rare solar phenomena? Or the company did something themselves (like push a faulty update as already referenced in news) that screwed themselves over?