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Into Thin AirPods

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Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by CoffeeOnWrite »

JackFr wrote: post #79
pawelwentpawel wrote: post #67

I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a trip in Latin America. It seems that it was an organised group with a vast distribution network. I could follow their entire supply chain which spanned through entire Brazil, from south all the way to Salinopolis which is a beach city in the north of the country. Most probably they travelled through the airport with an entire bag of phones stolen during the carnival. Putting…

I have retrieved my wife's phone two times and my own once using Lost Mode. We are in NYC. Maybe I just got lucky or the universe is just smiling on me. I did give each of the do gooders some money and each of them initially tried to refuse it. There are kind, helpful people in the world.

I returned a pair of Air Pods a month ago using “reverse Lost Mode” where you use your phone to request the contact info from the Air Pods.

I got my iPhone back at a giant music festival the old fashioned way- calling it and the do gooder answered.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by CoffeeOnWrite »

edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

One thing that strikes me about the story- I guess not everyone is queasy about putting things in their ears that have spent a lot of time in another person’s ears? (I wouldn’t think they would be attractive theft targets, because of hygiene/stigma)

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by helsinki »

Honestly, this writing grew a bit too dramatic and flowery for me. I feel a bit annoyed that I had to read someone wax poetic about a pair of earbuds for 15 minutes, when they didn’t even have the courage to kindly talk to the family in the museum.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by ra7 »

I could relate to this so much as someone who lost his AirPods a couple of weeks ago. Instead of a museum, it was an unsuccessful search through Walmart for me. Find My app now says it’s in Germany.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by dmm »

callesgg wrote: post #135
dmm wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Possibly also why the map showed the boys location. If it means even a slight chance of attracting unfounded vigilantism, mandatory participation in a poorly understood surveillance network seems like a pretty big downside associated with using an iphone.

It’s not mandatory. You have to explicitly enable participation. But most people probably do, as you yourself can’t use the location tracking, unless you opt in yourself.

Thanks. I misunderstood that.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by helsinki »

klohto wrote: post #52

I appreciate the story, although bit overstretched. I do have a question whether it’s just my ADHD, but was the writing horribly hard to follow for anyone else? I could not keep my focus while reading each of the paragraphs.

It was a general waste of my time.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by throwwwaway69 »

klohto wrote: post #52

I appreciate the story, although bit overstretched. I do have a question whether it’s just my ADHD, but was the writing horribly hard to follow for anyone else? I could not keep my focus while reading each of the paragraphs.

Severe ADHD here and I actually found myself eager to keep reading despite not being at all what I expected when I clicked

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by liminalsunset »

edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

This feature actually appears to have been implemented at some point. It's called Pairing Lock. The only problem is I'm not sure if it has been silently removed, since on my phone and AirPods the same location in the screenshot no longer says Pairing Lock.

https://old.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/q29h40/we_can_fina...

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by Toutouxc »

nihilius wrote: post #109
Toutouxc wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a service (made using the Shortcuts app) that takes whatever I've highlighted and pipes it to ChatGPT with a prompt that basically says "the user, who is a reasonably educated software developer, wants you to explain/analyze/summarize this piece of text that they've highlighted", and shows the result in a pop-up window. What's amazing is that I could've built the shortcut on my iPhone while commuting to work,…

Sounds perfect, could you share this shortcut? Just remove your api key beforehand.

Sure, does this work?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/467e8d88bec2417c9f7697a9107...

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by crazygringo »

CoffeeOnWrite wrote: post #142
edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

One thing that strikes me about the story- I guess not everyone is queasy about putting things in their ears that have spent a lot of time in another person’s ears? (I wouldn’t think they would be attractive theft targets, because of hygiene/stigma)

Just use an alcohol wipe and you're good to go. Cleaned and disinfected, don't know what else would bother you?
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