Comment on The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
serenissi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve a suggestion that might work depending on how honest the perspn hiring the worker is and on their contract. You can tell the person to send some questionnaire or feedback form etc to all of them which will track their ip and name/email (say unique form per worker). Then you can match the ip, as home ips are mostly static for short duration. Tell them to send the form at night or sometime when they’ll be at home and give it a short deadline.
Hi there, I can see that the thief is currently using the device.
Will it be possible to send a link via my friend saying “Yo bro, check this meme. This girl is crazzyyyy <link>” which, once clicked, gets the GPS coordinate?
For example, it’s possible via browser to get the location of a device. Can the same thing be done on Linux? I can create a simple nginx webserver on my spare server but unsure about how to proceed.
grabify link, hide it as a pic.
afaik steam deck doesn’t have a gps module. you’ve to get any of their identifying information.
what you can do is perhaps sending memes with different cannery token redirects for each worker. send them around when the device is being used. That way you can compare tge grabbed ip with steam log and see which worker’s match. as the deck doesn’t have sim they either will use home wifi or mobile hotspot. both will work this way.
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is actually a terrific idea. Unfortunately there is a high probability that the workers will use their mobile data to access the form. But I’m thinking how it might be possible to set this up in a believable manner. These workers from the lower lower middle class section of society and they don’t understand forms. Thanks for the suggestion.