I'm almost sure they are 3D printed on a nylon SLS machine, what a lovely example of high quality printing enabling relatively small scale, high number of SKU production!
A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
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Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#452Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just be careful! In SOME jurisdictions, you can get in trouble for 'stealing' if you take back something that was stolen. Possession vs Ownership are 2 different things. For instance, the thief may have stolen something, sold it to someone who bought it in good-faith, and you take it back from that person, it's technically theft! File a police report, go through the right channels. If you know its yours, call the pol…
This is the most useful advice: call the police non-emergency number, explain concisely, and ask them what to do. A bunch of the other suggestions, here on HN Streetwise ProTips, can get self and/or friends beaten, stabbed, and/or arrested.
Someone I know's phone was stolen. He tracked it using the track my phone feature to a house, and contacted the police asking the police to help get it back. The police said no, it's too dangerous, not worth it.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#453I know this is useful (for something), but I'm stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story... Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained? How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway? If the thief did keep the AirTag and you tracked them down, then what? A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. You could try to get the police to do it, bu…
A lot of those thiefs are not hardened criminals, because the payoff for this kind of crime is usually a small fraction of the actual value of the things stolen. Most of time it is the average wimpy addict and the reason he resort to this kind of criminal activity is preciselly because he is not ready for the violent potential of more profitable criminal activities. If you relativelly fit, and have some experience wi…
> If you relativelly fit
Most people are not this
> have some experience with actual fights or training in martial arts
And significant amounts of people also have neither of these things. At the very least “martial arts” training is particularly unlikely.
I’m the only one I know in my circle with practical fight experience and it’s because I grew up in shitty places. That probably says more about the privileged area I now live, and the kinds of people it attract though to be fair.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#454Get all perils insurance and make sure your typical use is covered. Often, commercial use will not be covered so it's important to double-check!
Insurance requires making constant regular payments to a third party for life. I self-insure most things.
Also, have you ever made an insurance claim? I have. A claim is really bad for your insurance rates with most insurance companies.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if you do that they will still notify a thief with a notification on their iPhone.
But it doesn't do this right away.I was traveling with a group of people that had AirTags, and I only start getting alerts by day three.
You shouldn't get them ever if you are traveling with the owner of the AirTag. The criteria for notification is:
1. the airtag is following you
2. the owner of the airtag does is not near the airtag
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you live in a city, yeah maybe. I have 3 removed cats in the toolbox of my truck, which I don’t lock, and neither they nor the truck have been touched. I even loaned the truck out to a rando on Facebook marketplace when I gave a fridge away, for free. Truck and cats came back
The very next day?
We thought he was a goner.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everywhere. In Sweden that would be a crime (a little bit depending on what you mean left in the open).
What kind of anarcho-tyranny is that?
The logic is that the current possessor might have acquired the product bona fide and is not necessarily the thief. In order to assess this, you cannot repurpose the product yourself, but need the cops and court involved. It's the oppossite of anarcho-tyranny, it's a law favoring orderly and non-violent solutions of real world capitalist conundrums. Private repossession of stolen property in a 'bear arms' society... are accidents waiting to happen.
In reality things are not so stiff. My dads bag was stolen from the train. The thief was apprehended on the station. He got his bag back from the cops because it had identifiable information in it. Perhaps a bit light on evidence that the thief was not the owner, but it's not always overly complicated. I think the thief got the right nudge.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#458Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#459I know this is useful (for something), but I'm stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story... Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained? How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway? If the thief did keep the AirTag and you tracked them down, then what? A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. You could try to get the police to do it, bu…
This "just let people steal your stuff, it's not worth pursuing" logic is fine for some, not fine for others.
Also, thieves are dumb. Don't expect them to find all the tracking devices in minutes.
Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of anarcho-tyranny is that?
European countries sometimes have a rather repulsive legal system that provides far too much protection to perpetrators.
There is no concept in American Law of "acquiring stolen stuff legally".
If you buy something that was stolen, the original owner has the right to get it back without compensation to you.