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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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673 points dmd | 2 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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Grazester ◴[19 Dec 24 19:49 UTC] No.42465052[source]▶
Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car? I get antsy leaving my $200 laptop hidden under my seat! This person is crazy.

There is also no guarantee they person who stole the bag wouldn't dump the bag(with the hidden AirTag) and just keep the gear or that the police would help recover it even if you gave them the location(many times the don't).

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wyager ◴[19 Dec 24 21:23 UTC] No.42465808[source]▶
> Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car?

People who live in a high-trust society and not a shithole? I leave $10k of stuff in my car all the time, and it would be super inconvenient if I couldn't.

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1. Grazester ◴[19 Dec 24 22:01 UTC] No.42466155[source]▶
No matter how trusting I am of society this is something I cannot and will not do. It takes one person to commit this crime.

It doesn't even have to be a "shit hole", then what? I am out of 10k? I only have myself to blame then really because I trusted "society".

The world isn't perfect and I am not half naive enough to think it is and put my trust in it for anything worth this much.

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2. phil21 ◴[20 Dec 24 00:49 UTC] No.42467277[source]▶
In such places folks feel comfortable leaving $10k worth of gear in their vehicle, law enforcement would most likely follow up if you had the gear tracked to a known location. I've seen such happen with the items being recovered and the thieves arrested in a matter of hours from the theft happening.

In places where leaving $10k of gear in your car is considered foolish and the victims are blamed as many are used to these days, law enforcement is useless and the victim of the theft laughed at as being hopelessly naive.

It's the tale of two worlds really.