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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by bagels »

nox101 wrote: post #387
valleyer wrote: post #367

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You're assuming independence, almost certainly incorrectly.

meaning? My point isn't that those number are exact. My point is 2% chance per year expands to a larger number over many years. So saying "most people have experienced theft" many not be that far off. 2% is 1 in 50 but 55% is more than 1 in 2. My personal experience is would be 10 or 11 in 55yrs depending on whether an attempt counts bike, bike, bike, car radio, car radio, car radio, car, car radio, bike, camera/dash…

The events are not independent. Maybe the first time you leave your bike outside you learn that it will be stolen, and then you don't do that anymore, reducing your future risk.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by bagels »

newZWhoDis wrote: post #365
mattmaroon wrote: post #277

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You'd think so, but America is the most armed country in the world and most of us have had something stolen. I think the overall sentiment is "I'm like 99% going to get away with this and pawn it for money" and they're right.

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Where do you live that has no crime?

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by bagels »

elzbardico wrote: post #172
jmull wrote: post #81

I 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…

It is actually pretty stupid to try to recover things.

I knew a guy that tried to stop someone from stealing his neighbor's car stereo.

He was extremely fit, young, and a fighter.

That didn't stop him from getting stabbed to death by the thief.

You can decide your life is worth a $100 car stereo, but I know mine is worth more than that.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by bdowling »

sandblast wrote: post #386
itsanaccount wrote: post #355

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its not bait. for my demographics the number 1 way I die by stranger is cops. not random gangbanger, not bar fight, not mistaken identity. never ever call the police, avoid them whenever possible. the probability of death by stranger is low compared to most other causes but cops managed to beat out the competition and it just ain't worth it.

Do you have any sources to back up this claim? Genuinely curious.

I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by nielsbot »

dervjd wrote: post #222
TuringNYC wrote: post #191

Nice solution, but the bigger problem is how AirTags can basically be turned off, which makes it poor for many use cases. Of course, I get it from Apple's perspective, they dont want AirTags to be used to tail others. However, that precludes it from being used for theft tracking. For example, I use an AirTag on my bicycle. If someone steals the bicycle, they are literally informed "an air tag is following you" https:…

Any tracker can be turned off if a thief manages to find it - but yeah a notification letting them know they need to look isn’t great. I use an AirTag on my e-bike - there’s quite a few hidden mounts out there that look like normal rear reflectors or slot in between a water bottle cage and the bike frame. It’s also trivially easy to pop the AirTag open and remove the speaker so it can’t beep. I bought my AirTags befo…

It’s not just the beeping. The potential thief’s iPhone will also notify them they’re being tracked.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by simonjgreen »

A browse through this companies product selection is interesting. They make some really well thought through options for mounting and attaching AirTags that I’ve not seen elsewhere. In particular the pin, bike tube, and fabric mount ones.

The CNC screws mentioned in other thread appear to be part of their design language btw.

Re: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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Post by ostacke »

nostromo wrote: post #263
mikeortman wrote: post #256

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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…

I’d be curious what jurisdiction that is true. In my jurisdiction in the US it doesn’t matter if someone purchased the stolen goods or not, the goods still belong to the owner. This is sometimes called the "nemo dat" rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet The person buying the stolen goods would need to file a claim against the thief to recover their money, but the goods still belong to the origi…

Sweden is one such jurisdiction[1]. You can only retake what has been stolen from you if it is done shortly after the theft.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj%C3%A4lvt%C3%A4kt

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