Time taken over a tech problem

Next day…

Oh no! What next!

Jason: You didn’t pick up last night. Thought you’d fallen in the bathroom and broken a leg. Nearly called an ambulance.

Sybil: I thought of texting you. I was busy. Downloading an app and recalibrating the headphones took longer than I expected.

Jason: Yeah. At this stage of life, I often can’t be bothered with some tech problem that I can solve but I’ll never need to do it again. 

Sybil: Waste of what little time I have left.

Jason: Rather play with the cat?

Sybil: And what’s wrong with that?

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Voice-over

Understandably frustrating wrestling with tech. Wait until the next day. Search online. Ask someone, lay or professional if you have better things to do with your time. Or even troubleshoot it and use it as a learning opportunity. 

Flightradar24

Tracking flights…

Bill: Look. A chopper just going over.

George: Does that app you have on your phone tell what it is?

Bill: Here it is. An MBB/Kawasaki BK 117.

George: Ah, the German-Japanese venture. Used a lot in rescue and police work.

Bill: Heading for the hospital. Yes, see it’s descending, now at 500 feet, hovering, landing.

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Voice-over

Flightradar24 is an app providing realtime tracking of flights, overhead and across the world. Developed in Sweden in 2006, it uses several sources to collect data, notably crowdsourced volunteers using ground-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) receivers. Other sources include satellites and multilateration of Flightradar24 receivers.