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Without cell coverage?
Okay let’s say there wasn’t any. Why would passer-bys have coverage?
They didn’t, they were passing by, and eventually headed to an area with coverage.
How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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I'm in the middle of a problem with an item either mid-delivered or not delivered, with unresponsive retailer. I started a dispute with my credit card company, but yesterday they emailed to tell me that they had "concluded their investigation" and that the item had indeed been delivered. No further information. Just "it was delivered, you owe the retailer". Apple Card uses Goldman Sachs for the bank and the customer…
You could try telling them you will cancel the credit card and not pay the last bill unless they reverse the charge. When it goes to collections, at least in the US, you can tell the collection agency that the charge is in dispute, and they have to leave you alone. If the bank then puts a ding on your credit report, you can dispute it with the credit reporting agency. At some point, someone decides this is too much o…
These are good suggestions, thanks.
I have to consider if fifty bucks is worth the expense of following a procedure of insisting on my rights under current industry regulations.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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This is true of literally everything with a modem in it. Tracking via tower triangulation has been around for 20 years or longer. Also the entirety of your browsing history is tracked and logged by your ISP and also given to three letters agencies. And companies like Google give basically unrestricted access to all your data. Nothing is private anymore.
> Also the entirety of your browsing history is tracked and logged by your ISP Presumably a) this is websites, not web pages, and b) a VPN negates this?
It is every page you visit. Any time you make an HTTP request it's logged.
VPN might do a little but browser fingerprinting is virtually impossible to negate unless you're using Tor on TailOS, and Google/CloudFlare will still know exactly who you are through a VPN, and so therefore so will government agencies.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in the middle of a problem with an item either mid-delivered or not delivered, with unresponsive retailer. I started a dispute with my credit card company, but yesterday they emailed to tell me that they had "concluded their investigation" and that the item had indeed been delivered. No further information. Just "it was delivered, you owe the retailer". Apple Card uses Goldman Sachs for the bank and the customer…
You could try telling them you will cancel the credit card and not pay the last bill unless they reverse the charge. When it goes to collections, at least in the US, you can tell the collection agency that the charge is in dispute, and they have to leave you alone. If the bank then puts a ding on your credit report, you can dispute it with the credit reporting agency. At some point, someone decides this is too much o…
Not worth the risk to your credit rating and stress from having to dispute it.
Best solution is to file a small claim at your local court. Near certainty it won’t be disputed due to cost-benefit of the retailer having to hire a lawyer to defend it.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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Lucky there. UK here. A couple of years back I had a macbook pro delivered to me. It was delivered to the correct number on a different road. The POD had a photo of the front door and the person. I recognised the front door as it was on a local estate. Phoned delivery company up (DPD) and they said that they delivered it to the correct location and wouldn't do anything about it. Went round there and the guy said "um,…
>a good police force What do you expect the police to do in this situation? They can't just walk into people's homes over your word. OP at least had a noise which in the states I assume is probable cause or something. And even then they'd have to come back with a warrant but got the headphones because the suspect felt defeated. Your situation is bizarre, the helpless feeling of knowing where your stolen item is and n…
File a civil claim, burden of proof is even lower.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#346Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
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> only the device owner can see where a device is Apple itself can also see where it is. This automatically means the NSA can also see where it is.
Considering the NSA probably doesn’t allow an electronic product to be sold in the US without a back door, and every square inch of the surface of the US is probably being imaged by satellites, its not like this presents new risk to you.
Backdoors tend to be sloppy and invite more than who they were built for. Nobody needs another attack surface. Ignoring and disparaging legitimate privacy concerns is unhelpful antisocial at best, gaslighting for tyrany some less cheritable might say.
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Thought: hate for a product is at least partially a factor of who buys it - or, more precisely, how often you see dickheads with it. Self-infatuated people are attracted to premium brands, and entitled people and premium brands are both more visible than the converse. Hands up if you've never been cut up in traffic by a BMW? Likewise, when someone cuts in line at a cafe and then sits down with a macbook, it's going t…
Perhaps next time someone holding an Apple device acts like a dick, maybe also take a look at what brand of shoes they're wearing. It's possible their dickishness is actually a consequence of being a Nike fanboy. It might sensitise you to the failings of Nike. Oh come now, that's ridiculous. Let's be real for a moment. No serious person would ever say that Nike is responsible for the coffee shop etiquette of people w…
Sure, but I'm not defending cognitive bias, merely describing it.
Re: How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
#349I assumed it would be Bluetooth. Walking/driving around with headphones powered on waiting to pair. WiFi network mirroring is smart.
>wifi network mirroring is smart Yep, so smart that I used to name my WiFi “McDonald’s Free WiFi” when I lived half a block from McDonald’s. Everyone’s phones would connect but to my goatse’d image network. I thought devices would start remembering the base station MAC addresses to avoid hijacking but I guess not.. maybe I should start doing this again at my local Home Depot Edit: just remembered I used to do this on…
I really meant the choice to use it here, not the implementation of how it works.