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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by jazzyjackson »

smcin wrote: post #223
jazzyjackson wrote: post #67

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Not to mention “public transit but with a waypoint” which is too advanced for all mobile apps

What do you mean "but with a waypoint”? What happens if you route on public transit without a waypoint? Do you mean indirect spaghetti routings that seem ok to Google?

No I like to find out how long it will take to go to one place and then another. With driving selected you can add arbitrary waypoints. For public transit you can have one destination only. I suppose it makes sense because they like to tell you via schedule how long it will take, and the map would need to know how long you will stay each location. But when I’m looking I’m just checking if a route exists, not which time I will take the train.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by fennecfoxy »

Yeah it triggers for me when I'm on the tube, ahahahaa.

But I would rather it do that than my phone still be unlocked after being mugged or scooter thieves'd'd.

I've also ensured I switch to esim so that they can't just eject it. Unfortunately they will still dump it into faraday bags.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by fennecfoxy »

dashdashu wrote: post #260
artisinal wrote: post #250

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Pull the emergency handle and get your phone back. If you live in South America you might even be allowed to use lethal force doing so.

lethal force against a thief of your smartphone seems disproportionate to me

I always agree with your statement when people discuss it from a purely theoretical philosophical/moral standpoint.

But when it actually happens to you, as I have been violently mugged several times. Oh, would I push that button - pull that trigger and I'd rewind time so I can do it a few times over. Cathartic.

These little fuckers hide out in alleyways late at night and they've made a career of it. They do it so often they embellish their muggings with other bits like choking and mock stabbing or slamming people's heads against pavements. So fuck 'em.

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Post by iggldiggl »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #181
eCa wrote: post #44

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Speaking of trains, that's another thing they don't do. The auto-snapping of current location consistently snaps to whatever road or goat track it can find nearby, while equally consistently refusing to snap to the railroad they have mapped. Sure, there's not much need for navigation in that situation, but if you're trying to be smart regarding where I am, maybe take into account if I'm travelling at 200 kph before p…

Also speaking of trains, I can't zoom out and look at intercity train lines. I can only see highways. If I'm in Japan without a car, planning a sightseeing trip and wondering where I can easily visit by train, I can't do that with Google maps. The highways obscure everything and can't be turned off.

Well, in my opinion Google Maps is terrible as an actual map anyway, it's more like some vaguely map-shaped thing that serves as a convenient geographical background for displaying POIs and directions on, but no so much use for actually orienting yourself or getting a feel for the geography of a place.

And +1 to the lack of railway lines when zoomed out, indeed another annoyance along the above lines.

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Post by rcxdude »

dashdashu wrote: post #260
artisinal wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pull the emergency handle and get your phone back. If you live in South America you might even be allowed to use lethal force doing so.

lethal force against a thief of your smartphone seems disproportionate to me

Maybe, but these thieves might do more damage than just needing to replace the phone. Some of them will attempt to use the information on it for extortion or blackmail (which is why such a feature exists in the first place).

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Post by janfoeh »

freetime2 wrote: post #131
randyrand wrote: post #128

Okay, then turn this feature off. How often do you go on runs? At most 3x a day? Personally i’d rather err on the side of it locking.

Also in that thread: > amazingly I can find no way to turn this behavior off at all, never mind a more fine-grained control like, say, "ignore this event while the app I use to time my runs is in the foreground" > (there is a global toggle for "device protections" that ostensibly includes this, but it was set to off to begin with so ???)

At the end of the thread, they say they've found the toggle, but it is greyed-out in the off position.

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Post by djtango »

iamnothere wrote: post #119
Melatonic wrote: post #105

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The kind of crime in Tokyo that is happening may also just not be reported

In Beijing robberies are 0.55 per 1,000. In Taipei it’s an unbelievable 0.0036 per 1,000, although general theft is higher at 2.12 (compared to London at 52.9). Are all these countries underreporting? Singapore is 0.01 per 1,000. Hanoi doesn’t have published statistics but its Numbeo crime index (calculated from surveys) is 33.8 versus London at 55.3. I think we can stop excusing London’s numbers. Want a non-Asian co…

It always shocks me how people like to excuse crime in London. 70000 phones snatched in a year. 3000 stabbings a year.

The phone snatchings are so common that I can name several victims from completely different walks of life. Maybe the most mental incident was when a colleague's phone was snatched then subsequently ditched on the floor cos it was too old to be worth the trouble of fencing...

As a native Londoner I didn't realise how much baggage I carried wrt crime until I moved to Singapore and realised that leaving your front door open, your car unlocked or your phone on a restaurant table aren't crimes you apparently deserve to be immediately punished for.

It's kind of nice knowing that children and the elderly can go about their day without fear of crime or that women can be unsupervised at night without fear of violence. It's actually very liberating being free from the tyranny of crime.

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Post by djtango »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #20
hparadiz wrote: post #12

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They send them to countries where they aren't locked or break it down for parts.

> They send them to countries where they aren't locked iphones will remain locked regardless of what country they're in. I presume you're talking about states who are seemingly unwilling to pursue/prosecute claims of theft?

My high level understanding is there are countries where things like IMEI barring aren't enforced and the actual unlocking of the phone is possible. Via jailbreaking or flashing I presume

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Post by [deleted] »

dashdashu wrote: post #260
artisinal wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pull the emergency handle and get your phone back. If you live in South America you might even be allowed to use lethal force doing so.

lethal force against a thief of your smartphone seems disproportionate to me

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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by djtango »

rsynnott wrote: post #85
mattlondon wrote: post #51

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Massive in London.

Eh, it certainly gets a lot of _attention_, and London is very, very big, so the absolute numbers are impressive-looking. The chances of it actually happening to any given person are extremely low, though.

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