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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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jmull ◴[19 Dec 24 19:42 UTC] No.42465013[source]▶
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, but that's going to take more time, during which the thief is even more likely to ditch the AirTag.

Anyway, you're really swimming upstream trying to think of aigtags as an antitheft device. They're really for something lost, not stolen. Generally, they are specifically designed to not work well in adversarial situations.

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encoderer ◴[19 Dec 24 20:06 UTC] No.42465202[source]▶
There exists a small percentage of men who will go absolutely savage on somebody for stealing from them, and the existence of those people is probably a bigger crime deterrent than the police.

So I say, shine on you crazy air tag tracking vigilante diamonds.

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kstrauser ◴[19 Dec 24 21:41 UTC] No.42465969[source]▶
I don't want someone to put razor wire on their catalytic converters so that it slices thieves' fingers off. I do, however, wish to leave the impression with thieves that perhaps my catalytic converter is protected by insanity armor.
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0_____0 ◴[19 Dec 24 21:55 UTC] No.42466095[source]▶
When I lived in California I wrapped a bunch of chain around the cat on my truck. Wasn't actually that secure but thieves see a ton of chain and padlocks and go "ehhhh keep moving."
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Aeolun ◴[19 Dec 24 23:39 UTC] No.42466907[source]▶
Around the cat?

That must mean something different than I am imagining.

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neilv ◴[19 Dec 24 23:53 UTC] No.42467000{3}[source]▶
Those Persians look like fluffy dusters, but mess with a man's truck that one is guarding, and it'll flip out like a ninja angel of bloody vengeance.

When you buy a new F-150, a Persian guard cat is an even more essential add-on than a bed liner.

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dgfitz ◴[20 Dec 24 00:42 UTC] No.42467242{4}[source]▶
If you live in a city, yeah maybe.

I have 3 removed cats in the toolbox of my truck, which I don’t lock, and neither they nor the truck have been touched.

I even loaned the truck out to a rando on Facebook marketplace when I gave a fridge away, for free. Truck and cats came back

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iamjackg ◴[20 Dec 24 02:29 UTC] No.42467721{5}[source]▶
The very next day?
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1. stephenhumphrey ◴[20 Dec 24 13:26 UTC] No.42470892{6}[source]▶
We thought he was a goner.