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If a thief steals an item with a tracker, they won’t know until the cops come knocking.

If their phone alerts them, now they know to either ditch the item or find and remove the tag quickly. If their phone now allows them to disable tracking for 24 hours easily, they have more time to find and disable the tracker.

I’m not saying these features won’t prevent stalking, but they do hurt theft tracking which is a primary purpose most people use these tags for. It seems they can only really be used for lost items, and only if lost near honest people, not opportunistic thieves.

It’s a shame stalkers had to ruin tracker tags, but I suppose it was inevitable.

I have mine hosted on elest.io. As easy as it gets. Just choose your software enter some initial domain setup and deploy. Can’t beat it for 18 bucks a month.

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Is there a way to temporarily disable tracking for circumstances such as this when you loan your keys or something?

I suppose not, or people would disable it and then re-enable it later, unless they require proximity or some other protection against that.

But if AI learns from us…

Revolt.chat is quite similar to discord and open source. They do run a centralized server to make it easy for everyone to get onboard, but it can be self hosted as well.

That being said, I still don’t use it because nobody else does, and that’s the problem with all chat and social media apps.

We allow a marmot to predict our weather.

Alrewdy can. At least through Home Assistant, can even be set as your default assistant on Android through the HA companion app

I just integrated it into Home Assistant last week and it can now control my lights and tell me temperature in different rooms and interact with any smart devices in my home, in addition to everything regular ChatGPT can do. I also integrated elevenlabs voice so it sounds like a posh British gentleman. Then I named him Jarvis of course.

It’s been pretty entertaining, but more of a gimmick than truly useful.

Yep. I’ve been using Obsidian/Syncthing for about 2 years now. It has been 100% flawless for me. Changes sync across devices within seconds.

You have 20 seconds to comply.