1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Air tags?

 

Little wireless trackers that Apple makes. Really good for finding your lost stuff as long as it's near other iPhones. It uses nearby iPhones to send out its location. They're super small and easy to hide.

 

People suck. One extra benefit of not having an iPhone I guess

 

some people kill the speaker for nefarious purposes fwiw, unlikely buuut as a result

apple added a feature that will tell you if an airtag not associated with your account is traveling with you but idk what the threadshold is

 

I don't have one either. But if someone had stuck an airtag to my truck, even my neighbors phones could give it away

 

I don't have an iPhone. So any Air tag traveling with me ain't mine

 

ah forgive me if i missed it and you already did apple has an android app called Tracker Detect that will check for nearby airtags

 

Yeah that's what I was using to see if I could hear the thing. I'll take it to work tomorrow. If that same air tag is still near me then it's attached to the truck.

 

took a nap and now my brain is scrambled

 

oh shit yea youre on it lol i am preaching to the choir you are better at tech than me

 

I have my moments

 

So another benefit of not having neighbors. That is kinda sketchy that it just bounces of Any device though

 

Yeah you sign up unwillingly for a lot of things when you buy Apple devices

 

Man, I'm digging just how stupidly convenient a mini PC is.

 

MS and Google aren't exactly privacy saints either. Ever wonder how Google Maps gets such good traffic information?

 

Never said they were, and no I don't wonder.

 

You were implying that Apple was worse, but fair enough. Throw your phone in a river if you don't wanna be tracked.

 

theyre all violating your privacy, and tracking you all the time.

 

No I only implied Apple was terrible, I agree with you that the rest of them are terrible too, they just weren't the subject of my sentence. Apple's user base is typically less informed and as a single entity larger too.. That might make what they do slightly more egregious. As for my phone it is very modified Android, none of the Google services are on it. At least none of them exist outside of sandbox profiles that limit their ability to access I/O. I'm a sysadmin at a prison... So most of my tech is pretty modified and unorthodox compared to normal consumer junk.

 

Jokes on them I'm into that shit