Comment on The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck

• Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It works like Apple’s FindMy network, mostly through Bluetooth I believe. Every single phone running android (and with the setting enabled) can ping the location of your trackables. It’s just like Tile, except with a network of every single Android device instead of just Tile users.

  I’m not sure what you mean by enable it, the first step would be to purchase a compatible trackable. Currently there are only two brands making them, unless others have started now. Pebblebee seems to be the more popular ones, and that’s what I went with.

  If you want to play around with the app, you can download it here, but there won’t be much to do in it until you have trackables.

  play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.…

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks a lot! I wanted something like AirTag but for Android. I am convincing myself to wait for the Steam Deck OLED 2. I’ll buy the tracker and put it under a decal or something.

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    • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s cool that Google has finally got their shit together with that. What’s fascinating is that Google and Apple worked together to provide cross device notifications if an Air tag is following an Android or a Google FindMy tracker is following an iPhone.

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      • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Google and Apple worked together to provide cross device notifications One of the rare instances of collaboration where it actually matters.

        Somehow this news flew under the radar for me

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