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Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by F7F7F7 »

trollbridge wrote: post #363
lxgr wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that the battery in my Airtag lasts about a year, I'd rather have to exchange a CR2032 once per year than to buy a new tracker whenever the built-in rechargeable battery inevitably dies. (I think there are actually rechargeable CR2032s too – best of both worlds?)

There are, and I got cursed with a BMW that uses one of them. Eventually after 10+ years it finally dies, and it's basically impossible to replace and actually make it work again, so I just have to replace the 2032 in it every few months.

My Dad shipped a M car overseas a decade ago. The is fine. The keys are dead.

Since the islands he now lives on has no BMW presence they want him to ship the car back to get new keys.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by dre85 »

For whatever it's worth I have a personal counter-story to airtag usefulness. Not to get into the debate of indoor vs outdoor cats, we had a cat a few years ago that liked to roam around outside and one time it got spooked and disappeared for two weeks. It came back all skinny and hurt and after that we bought an air tag collar for peace of mind. The airtag worked just fine for a few months until the cat disappeared again. That very day the airtag stopped working so when we actually need it, the signal was permanently lost. We never found out why. I could imagine perhaps a car hit it or a coyote ate it, but there's certainly edge cases where an airtag would fail immediately. Battery life is highly unlikely to be the culprit in my opinion as it was fairly new, working recently before that day and the timing was too perfect.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by sebstefan »

For anyone outside the U.S where most likely people around you will have Android devices and not iPhones, you are better off ordering trackers that are compatible with Google Find My Device

They're cheaper and allows third parties, plus the network is stronger.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by gumby271 »

i5heu wrote: post #589

AirTags are such a killer feature. I have multiple in places like my bike, wallet and so on. They have paid themselves so many times over and over.

They're really cool, I just wish they weren't an iPhone accessory. If I could do everything from my Mac I'd consider them, but Apple likes to assume every Apple customer also has an iPhone.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by kakacik »

Foobar8568 wrote: post #479
trollbridge wrote: post #357

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I need to applaud the efficiency and moxie of the Zurich / Swiss police service. In America, the UK, Canada, etc they'd tell you to fill out a report that nobody would ever read, and also advise you it's probably unsafe to go pick it up yourself.

That's not a common occurrence, police in Switzerland is highly passive, and the judiciary system is highly complicit with criminals (drug dealers,thieves, white collar crimes etc), and against women (rape victims can be told to close their legs better by judges).

Care to back up your outlandish claims? I live here for 15 years and all you write is completely untrue for everything I ever experienced, saw, heard or read. Or you mean some case from early 70s?

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by ikawe »

sejje wrote: post #617
nindalf wrote: post #571

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Absolutely not the case. This is just what overly online people think.

There's a recent video of a woman getting arrested, not for the first time, for admitting that she might be praying to herself inside her head, silently. Here's an article I searched up about it: https://adfinternational.org/news/uk-christian-woman-crimina...

(outside an abortion facility)

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by Amezarak »

Spooky23 wrote: post #581
srj wrote: post #519

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Sure but in a less broken society thieves would be apprehended and theft risk would be low. Instead the police do nothing and honest people live like a school of fish trying not to stick out for fear of the nearly-authorized property theft rampant in SF. In many parts of the world, including major cities, it would be okay to leave your belongings in a locked car.

Cool, leave your MacBook on the front seat then.

I regularly leave my backpack with my laptops in it in the front seat of my car in the south US and nothing has ever happened in ten years of doing this.

It's crazy to me other people just live with this. Dramatic action is needed and possible.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by kakacik »

nairboon wrote: post #550
justinator wrote: post #505

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> the state just functions in a way that other European countries can only dream of affording being able to I have fixed that for you.

That affordability is closely related with fiscal policy...

And morality and their conscientiousness (what a word).

If you look at the map of Europe, lay it over with that fiscal discipline and above, there is no mystery how things like income are spread out across the map, it all makes sense. Also a good confirmation that well regulated but proper capitalism is the easiest path for any country to long term prosperity.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by jkubicek »

GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #294
ryandrake wrote: post #272

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Is it really pedantic? Everything is ultimately a chemical compound. H2O is a chemical. Where do you draw the line between "chemicals" and "not chemicals"? Is it more about what you can find in nature? You can find acetone in nature.

yeah, this is kind of a definitional example of pedantry. you probably understand what people are trying to say when they talk about "chemicals" but instead of engaging with the actual conversation, you spin off a metanarrative to pick apart the word choice as if that's directly relevant to the point they're trying to discuss. not trying to pick on you specifically, because sure everything's a chemical, and i don't r…

> you probably understand what people are trying to say when they talk about "chemicals"

My understanding is that when someone complains about "chemicals" in their food, it's because they've seen something they don't understand on the ingredient list and are scared of it.

Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

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Post by fragmede »

trollbridge wrote: post #363
lxgr wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that the battery in my Airtag lasts about a year, I'd rather have to exchange a CR2032 once per year than to buy a new tracker whenever the built-in rechargeable battery inevitably dies. (I think there are actually rechargeable CR2032s too – best of both worlds?)

There are, and I got cursed with a BMW that uses one of them. Eventually after 10+ years it finally dies, and it's basically impossible to replace and actually make it work again, so I just have to replace the 2032 in it every few months.

FWIW, there's https://a.co/d/gOk1RkB which takes an airtag and AA batteries, and should need replacement in 10 years. Unless they make BMWs a lot smaller where you are, you can fit it somewhere. Now I just need a retailer that sells speakerless airtags.
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