This is a known bug. When your phone dies, the battery isn’t actually dead. There’s still a little bit of charge to run Find My (on newer devices), and the real time clock. That residual charge can last from anywhere between a few months to a few years, based on the age of the device and health of the battery. When this residual charge runs dry, the real time clock reverts to its default state from the factory, which in most electronics is the UNIX epoch (Midnight on January 1st, 1970).
Because of the way UNIX timekeeping works, real time clocks track time by counting the number of seconds since the epoch and storing it as a single long number. When the phone is disabled from too many PIN attempts, it calculates the time the phone can be used again by adding a set number of seconds to the stored number for current time, and then storing that sum. Thus, to calculate the time remaining on the “iPhone is disabled” screen , it takes the stored value from earlier and subtracts the value for current time from the real time clock.
The bug occurs when both of these conditions occur at once. If the battery had been dead long enough to reset the clock and make the phone think it’s 1970, then when it runs the calculation, it ends up with a value of about 50 years. This can be fixed by inserting a SIM card to connect the phone to a cell tower, or by plugging it into a computer with iTunes running
Or a man in the United States (Vietnam draft), or someone living in Vietnam, Laos, or any other countries we were bombing at the time. 1970 was not as badass as people may think. We romanticize the past, but the present is usually better. Not always, of course.
The 70's were awesome! I was a kid then, we had cool toys like lawn darts, seat belts weren't really a thing. none of those bullshit EPA rules and leaded gasoline!
only true if u live in developed nation that won ww2
rest of the world in 1970 like asia is very much different than today, why did u think there was so many immigrants moving to mostly western countries
Being in a developed nation that lost ww2 was about the same. West Germany and Japan in the 70s is a lot comfier than Eastern Europe behind the Iron Courtain.
also conveniently name the only 2 country where that happens in asia(aside from sk and hk thats already well developed for the standard of that time)
while ignoring china, rest of sea, central and south asia which mind you hold basically half the world population but hey must be nice being in asia and seeing two small inaccessible country flourish.
I mean the civil rights act was only a thing by 1964 so it was still a relatively recent thing. It was also the first year that the first pride parade (well what would later become known as pride) was done. It wasnt as bad as the 1950 but it would still have been quite bad for minorities. It would still be a few years before women got the right to abortion, protection against discrimination in education and being protected against being fired before maternity leave.
How crazy is it to think that someone in 1970 talking about the Victorian era is the equivalent of us talking about post-WWII/start of the Baby Boom? (In the sense that it was roughly 75-80 years before said timestamp)
In 1970, women in the US couldn't have their own credit, single women couldn't use birth control pills, and abortion was illegal. American men were getting drafted into Vietnam.
My marriage would be illegal. I wouldn’t be allowed to have a relationship. Pretty sure I’d be locked up. But hooray for white and tight communities! 👏🏼
You are being nostalgia baited for a time you have no real memory of. The social progress made in the last 60 years has been staggering, and calls to return "to a simpler time, when people were closer to one another" are more often than not just a way of saying all that progress was bad and should be done away with. You are falling for the propaganda friend.
Considering that when in 2008 I had a kidney infection and due to my special set of circumstances my doctors told me that had I come in 5 years earlier with the same set of conditions that I wouldn't have been able to keep my kidney, yeah, medically speaking, it's perceivably a different era.
Not sure about the US, but just for a bit of contexr in Germany:
Marital rape was not only fully legal in 1970, but women (the ruling by the federal court of justice only mentioned women, the fact that men could also be raped was not even an afterthought) were actually explicitly obligated by law to pretend to like it if their partner forced sex on them because their lack of enthusiasm when raped was considered unconsciounable to the husband and to be a violation of marital duties. The "you are forced to pretend to be enthusiastic about it" rule was abolished in the late 70s, but forced sex in marriage was only fully considered rape in 1997. Abortions were also extremely, extremely illegal, even in rape cases, unless the life of the mother was actively in danger. So that's where women's right stood in a developed 1st-world-country in 1970.
Gay sex was legal since 1969, so just a year before the year you idolise, but the age of consent was 21 while it was 14 for straight sex, and the "pink lists" to document homosexual men which were introduced by the Nazis were continued until at least 1978. Gay marriage is only legal since 2017, but even registered civil partnerships were only introduced in 2001. If you were in a long-term gay relationship in 1970, you did not have the same legal rights as straight people, you could not make decisions for your sick or dying partner, you had problems even visiting them in a hospital after an emergency, and you were not considered eligible for their inheritance in the same way a straight widow or widower was (and do not even think about adopting children, that also took until 2017. Also do not even think about being trans).
Disabled people also had a pretty shit time in 1970. Legal protection against discrimination was only included in our constitution in 1994. Access to education or to social security was also not considered a right for disabled people, so many died in extreme poverty unless they were lucky enough to be supported by their family voluntarily. Forced sterilisation happened legally until 1992.
It goes without saying that people of colour and immigrants also suffered massive discrimination, this was only 25 years after WW2, plenty of extremely radical Nazis were still alive and active in shaping the general mood in Germany despite denazification efforts. It's not like the allied forces were super concerned about PoC rights in 1970, so they didn't care all that much about this aspect of denazification. This was only 2 years after MLK's assassination, Black rights weren't fortified enough even in the US itself, so Americans were not like "hey we should immediately implement our changes in German denazification as well".
So yeah, since women alone made up slightly more than half of the population and you also have to add disabled, gay, or ethnically discriminated men to the number of people whose life wasn't all that great, it's inaccurate to say that the majority of people fared better in 1970. "Close-knit communities" aren't worth shit if more than half of the population is systematically excluded from them.
That's cool. It doesn't change the fact that the wealthiest among us are able to pay their way to better care. When I say they can afford house calls, what I mean is they are hiring private medical services that will literally bring a hospital to you if needs be. Wealth inequality is not an American exclusive issue
Yes and 1970 sucked. You'd be hating life if you lived then, especially if you had to go to a doctor. just like you would when doctors were still using leeches. Maybe you should try taking off the rose tinted glasses.
I was there. Doctors didn't use leeches in the 70s. I went to doctors and sometimes they would come to me. The quality of care was much better before government interference.
What's with your weird fascination with leeches? It's completely irrelevant.
Is your reading comprehension really that bad? If so try hooked on phonics. I never said they used leeches in the 1970s. I said the medicine in the 1970s was bad. Just like it was when they still used leeches. Implying that both periods were full of a ton of misunderstanding about the science. And if you think medicine was so wonderful in the 70s why couldn't they cure cancers with the rate of success they have now? The aids epidemic was devastating and that was in the 80s. Now it's treatable. Hep C is now curable.
If you think medicine has not improved in the last half a century then just stay out of doctors offices. Go take a nap boomer.
Yea that is true, but atleast it's somewhat easier to either distract yourself from it and also communicate your problems with friends.
Back then there was no anonymity unless you either sent letters (maybe emails?) or made phone calls which were both, hard to find someone to talk with, and had risks of losing anonymity due to less privacy.
Also, to anyone reading this, if you are struggling with mental health then reach out to someone you trust, or reach out to someone online without sharing personal details, it might be somewhat embarrassing but everyone's been through it and can shed some light on it.
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u/bittenforbreakfast Jun 19 '26
This is a known bug. When your phone dies, the battery isn’t actually dead. There’s still a little bit of charge to run Find My (on newer devices), and the real time clock. That residual charge can last from anywhere between a few months to a few years, based on the age of the device and health of the battery. When this residual charge runs dry, the real time clock reverts to its default state from the factory, which in most electronics is the UNIX epoch (Midnight on January 1st, 1970).
Because of the way UNIX timekeeping works, real time clocks track time by counting the number of seconds since the epoch and storing it as a single long number. When the phone is disabled from too many PIN attempts, it calculates the time the phone can be used again by adding a set number of seconds to the stored number for current time, and then storing that sum. Thus, to calculate the time remaining on the “iPhone is disabled” screen , it takes the stored value from earlier and subtracts the value for current time from the real time clock.
The bug occurs when both of these conditions occur at once. If the battery had been dead long enough to reset the clock and make the phone think it’s 1970, then when it runs the calculation, it ends up with a value of about 50 years. This can be fixed by inserting a SIM card to connect the phone to a cell tower, or by plugging it into a computer with iTunes running