Allegedly, on or about 25 April 2015, Timothy Murphy sent:
When I google for "fedora airplane mode" I get lots of
hits
but none of the ones I've looked at actually explain
what they mean by this term.
Did you mean defining what Fedora does about it, or what "airplane mode"
refers to?
Airplane mode is a term referring to killing all radio-frequency
transmissions that might be a problem on a plane. Some mobile phones
have it, now, so that you can use the other features of the phone (alarm
clock, games, whatever) instead of completely turning off the phone for
airplane safety precautions.
An RF kill function is the same thing. And as another message in this
thread depicts, it makes sense that it sends a signal to the OS to turn
off all RF devices, rather than the kill switch only being directly
wired to some specific RF device inside the computer.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
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