@Mehlachi Get a bigger phone and use a really fine-point paint marker. When you run out of space on the case, just swap out to a new case. For greatest economy, get an iPhone 6 and we can all send you the cases that we’ve accumulated from IRKs.
Or get a pocket notebook to write things in, and be so retro that you’re the envy of all your friends.
@Kyeh@pakopako The really coolnerdy kids in the 90’s could also do that with their graphing calculators. As long as they had an HP-48 series. The more common TI calculators had no such features. They couldn’t even play music.
@Kyeh@pakopako@pmarin@xobzoo My wife sewed a 3-pocket pouch that is pinned to the sofa in the TV area of the family room. Haven’t lost a TV/DVR/stereo remote since.
@pakopako@rtjhnstn@xobzoo I can get 4 Apple AirTags right now for $80, so I doubt that it would cost all that much to make a TV remote with a tracker in it. It only has to be strong enough for the area of a house.
@macromeh@pakopako@pmarin@xobzoo
I have a setup on my side table that works most of the time, but the problem is when I carry it into the kitchen so I can mute the ads (the TV’s visible from there.)
@Kidsandliz@NapkinEater@pakopako I’ve had Apple stuff respond to me after I said something (pretty sure not siri) and I didn’t even think I had it/her enabled.
Once it said “I don’t know how to call your daughter”… which was weird because I’m very sure I don’t have a daughter.
@Kidsandliz@werehatrack My neighbor’s obnoxious cat who runs wild all over the neighborhood killing birds and bunnies (occasionally he’s useful and kills mice or voles) wears a tracking collar. It’s pretty amazing. Neighbor showed me on his phone how far away the cat ranges.
@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@werehatrack There was a documentary on farm cats (I think in UK) that confirmed that in an open area a cat can have a daily “patrol” of 2-3 miles and follow a similar route each day checking for anything that changed or needs attention.
Personally, I’d love to track my keys and wallet. It seems like no matter how organized I try to be, they always find a way to disappear when I need them most. Being able to quickly locate them with my phone would save me a lot of time and frustration. Additionally, tracking my pets would give me peace of mind when they’re out exploring the neighborhood. And of course, having the ability to track my fitness progress and health metrics seamlessly would be fantastic for staying on top of my wellness goals.
Moreover, I would not say that I am super jealous, but I think that many guys would agree that they would like to secretly monitor their partner’s life in order to exclude cheating… I don’t even know which is better - to live knowing that you are being cheated on or to live not knowing that you are being cheated on…
How about you?
@MohamedBradley If you are seriously concerned about the possibility of cheating, you already have more problems than you know. And attempting to exercise the degree of control of a partner that is implied by such tracking is such a fundamental violation of trust that I don’t know anyone who would stand it.
@Kyeh@unksol There has been a common pattern for quite some time now in which a fresh SpamBot makes several non-spam posts and then dumps their spam load. Early iterations have just stolen somebody’s comment from further up the thread and duplicated it. Later ones would steal from one thread and dump it in another even when it didn’t make any sense there. Some have also tried just making extremely generic innocuous posts or replies. Those also often made no sense. There are other markers that get my attention as well, and I’m not going to tip my hand on those because I don’t want some smart-ass algorithm noticing the advice on how to improve.
@Kyeh@unksol@werehatrack
I moderate web forums as a hobby (I am a self admitted masochist) and sometimes you just have real people who ramble like this wherever they go.
@pakopako@unksol@werehatrack It just sounds a little too mellifluous and diplomatic for a normal weirdo’s ramblings. It sounds like AI stuff I’ve seen elsewhere.
@pakopako There’s a kind of disjointed quality to most of the weirdo ramblings I’ve seen, if that makes sense. But I’m no expert, although I might be weird myself.
@Kyeh@werehatrack Be nice and polite! Be nice and polite! That’s my father’s advice that I will stick to regardless of what forum dudes write to me accusing me of being an AI bot
@werehatrack Bro, this is not a problem of trust, this is a problem of the society in which we live. You can live without knowing that you’ve been cheated on for years. This is a statistic, not some kind of fiction. For example, I read that about 35% of children in the world are not raised by their own fathers (meaning that the wife cheated on her husband, and the husband does not know about the betrayal and brings up someone else’s child in fact). Perhaps there was even an even larger percentage…
An electronic-sounding voice: haha, now the computer has passed the Turing test and convinced silly people that it is human, even though it is artificial intelligence
You can track things with your phone?
messages that people send me
I wish I could track dates and times of events happening but on my phone. Marker washes off my hands too easily.
@Mehlachi Get a bigger phone and use a really fine-point paint marker. When you run out of space on the case, just swap out to a new case. For greatest economy, get an iPhone 6 and we can all send you the cases that we’ve accumulated from IRKs.
Or get a pocket notebook to write things in, and be so retro that you’re the envy of all your friends.
Specifically freight trains. (I can already track Amtrak and airliners!)
My paycheck. I would like to know where it goes after payday.
Hot dogs
@somf69 Costco?Costco Hotdog prices
Myself
TV remote
@Kyeh for awhile (and some models still have it) phones came with infrared transmitters which let them “be” the remote control.
@pakopako
Huh, I hadn’t heard of that!
@Kyeh @pakopako The really
coolnerdy kids in the 90’s could also do that with their graphing calculators. As long as they had an HP-48 series. The more common TI calculators had no such features. They couldn’t even play music.@pakopako @xobzoo I don’t understand why TV remotes can’t have a tracking feature installed in them to begin with.
@Kyeh @pakopako @xobzoo You expect a $20 universal remote to include tracking? Maybe if it was 5+ times as much.
@Kyeh @xobzoo
You Velcro your remotes to the wall too?
@pakopako @xobzoo I should.
@Kyeh @pakopako @xobzoo I had a housemate that did the velcro thing on the wall. I was simultaneously appalled and impressed.
@Kyeh @pakopako @pmarin @xobzoo My wife sewed a 3-pocket pouch that is pinned to the sofa in the TV area of the family room. Haven’t lost a TV/DVR/stereo remote since.
@pakopako @rtjhnstn @xobzoo I can get 4 Apple AirTags right now for $80, so I doubt that it would cost all that much to make a TV remote with a tracker in it. It only has to be strong enough for the area of a house.
@macromeh @pakopako @pmarin @xobzoo
I have a setup on my side table that works most of the time, but the problem is when I carry it into the kitchen so I can mute the ads (the TV’s visible from there.)
My phone.
(Oh, I misplaced my phone. I’ll just call it from… Oh right.)
@pakopako I am always “OK Google”-ing my phone.
@NapkinEater how does that work exactly? Just shout and hope it isn’t buried under something that muffles your voice?
@pakopako
Came here to say that.
@NapkinEater @pakopako We if you have an iphone and suri turned on it might answer you… Just sayin’
@pakopako We have Google Home speakers throughout the house. If I say, “hey Google, where’s my phone?”, Google makes my phone ring at full volume.
Now if I left my phone somewhere, that would be a problem.
@Kidsandliz @NapkinEater @pakopako I’ve had Apple stuff respond to me after I said something (pretty sure not siri) and I didn’t even think I had it/her enabled.
Once it said “I don’t know how to call your daughter”… which was weird because I’m very sure I don’t have a daughter.
@pmarin
Well, that would be why it didn’t know how to call her, wouldn’t it?
@NapkinEater ah, that’s kinda nice. It’s a safety net like self-driving cars, an electric grid, or plumbing (the net works better the bigger it gets).
For that ubiquity, they’d have to make things more affordable for my budget though.
My money, especially in my wife’s hands. Well, it’s never in my wife’s hands long.
The stuff my cats run off with. Of course if I knew what that would be in advance I could attach trackers…
@Kidsandliz They would chew the TrackRs off
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack My neighbor’s obnoxious cat who runs wild all over the neighborhood killing birds and bunnies (occasionally he’s useful and kills mice or voles) wears a tracking collar. It’s pretty amazing. Neighbor showed me on his phone how far away the cat ranges.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack There was a documentary on farm cats (I think in UK) that confirmed that in an open area a cat can have a daily “patrol” of 2-3 miles and follow a similar route each day checking for anything that changed or needs attention.
My trackrs
My ambition - seems like it’s always getting misplaced just when I need it.
Marbles, I keep losing them.
Speaking of tracking, how much do you trust your phone provider? And they don’t seem to think you are paying them enough; they still need extra revenue:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2024/04/29/verizon-att-tmobile-fine-fcc-data/73503403007/
My phone
My sanity.
An old bumper sticker…
Of all the things I’ve lost in life I miss my mind the most
Personally, I’d love to track my keys and wallet. It seems like no matter how organized I try to be, they always find a way to disappear when I need them most. Being able to quickly locate them with my phone would save me a lot of time and frustration. Additionally, tracking my pets would give me peace of mind when they’re out exploring the neighborhood. And of course, having the ability to track my fitness progress and health metrics seamlessly would be fantastic for staying on top of my wellness goals.
Moreover, I would not say that I am super jealous, but I think that many guys would agree that they would like to secretly monitor their partner’s life in order to exclude cheating… I don’t even know which is better - to live knowing that you are being cheated on or to live not knowing that you are being cheated on…
How about you?
@MohamedBradley If you are seriously concerned about the possibility of cheating, you already have more problems than you know. And attempting to exercise the degree of control of a partner that is implied by such tracking is such a fundamental violation of trust that I don’t know anyone who would stand it.
@MohamedBradley @werehatrack
I kind of think Mohamed is AI … his answers are too elaborate and florid for a casual forum, IMO.
@Kyeh @MohamedBradley @werehatrack I concure.
It’s like spot the spammer. Although not sure what the goal is other than improve the bot
@Kyeh @unksol There has been a common pattern for quite some time now in which a fresh SpamBot makes several non-spam posts and then dumps their spam load. Early iterations have just stolen somebody’s comment from further up the thread and duplicated it. Later ones would steal from one thread and dump it in another even when it didn’t make any sense there. Some have also tried just making extremely generic innocuous posts or replies. Those also often made no sense. There are other markers that get my attention as well, and I’m not going to tip my hand on those because I don’t want some smart-ass algorithm noticing the advice on how to improve.
@Kyeh @unksol @werehatrack
I moderate web forums as a hobby (I am a self admitted masochist) and sometimes you just have real people who ramble like this wherever they go.
@pakopako @unksol @werehatrack It just sounds a little too mellifluous and diplomatic for a normal weirdo’s ramblings. It sounds like AI stuff I’ve seen elsewhere.
@Kyeh you’ve seen “normal” weirdos?
@pakopako There’s a kind of disjointed quality to most of the weirdo ramblings I’ve seen, if that makes sense. But I’m no expert, although I might be weird myself.
@Kyeh @werehatrack Be nice and polite! Be nice and polite! That’s my father’s advice that I will stick to regardless of what forum dudes write to me accusing me of being an AI bot
@werehatrack Bro, this is not a problem of trust, this is a problem of the society in which we live. You can live without knowing that you’ve been cheated on for years. This is a statistic, not some kind of fiction. For example, I read that about 35% of children in the world are not raised by their own fathers (meaning that the wife cheated on her husband, and the husband does not know about the betrayal and brings up someone else’s child in fact). Perhaps there was even an even larger percentage…
@MohamedBradley @werehatrack
@pakopako–Okay, I think you win; not AI, just a weirdo.
@Kyeh @MohamedBradley @pakopako Weirdos R Us. [1]
[1] I’m not! [2]
[2] Footnote 1 is a lie.
@Kyeh @pakopako @werehatrack Yes, thank you for recognizing me as a human being.
An electronic-sounding voice: haha, now the computer has passed the Turing test and convinced silly people that it is human, even though it is artificial intelligence
P.S. It’s just a joke, I’m not an AI