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On 2026-01-31 13:52, pothead wrote:

On 2026-01-30, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2026-01-29 17:33, pothead wrote:

So aside from needing to remember to charge it twice as often...

...how is this an advantage?

Valiant effort but once again you lose.
Just one example, when you register your Spotminders device you get an email
notifying you that it's time to charge.

I did a little research...

...and it turns out your claim that Spotminders emails you when it's
time to charge is just so much bullshit.

What "they" DO do...

(and this is the part where you're just to sloppy to get it right--it's
the Tracking Cards themselves, not Spotminders)

...is, when their batteries are running low, they send a notification
through the Apple "Find My" network...

...which is precisely what AirTags do.

So, check and mate.

:-)

Incorrect.
They do both.
The email is based upon the date of purchase and assumes you put the device into
service fully charged around that date.
So 2 ways Spotminders reminds you vs 1 way Airtag reminds you.

So you get ONE email...

Got it.

But the larger point you miss is that you were trying to turn this into
an advantage for Spotminders.

And it isn't.
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On 2026-02-01, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2026-01-31 13:52, pothead wrote:

On 2026-01-30, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2026-01-29 17:33, pothead wrote:

So aside from needing to remember to charge it twice as often...

...how is this an advantage?

Valiant effort but once again you lose.
Just one example, when you register your Spotminders device you get an email
notifying you that it's time to charge.

I did a little research...

...and it turns out your claim that Spotminders emails you when it's
time to charge is just so much bullshit.

What "they" DO do...

(and this is the part where you're just to sloppy to get it right--it's
the Tracking Cards themselves, not Spotminders)

...is, when their batteries are running low, they send a notification
through the Apple "Find My" network...

...which is precisely what AirTags do.

So, check and mate.

:-)

Incorrect.
They do both.
The email is based upon the date of purchase and assumes you put the device into
service fully charged around that date.
So 2 ways Spotminders reminds you vs 1 way Airtag reminds you.

So you get ONE email...

Got it.

But the larger point you miss is that you were trying to turn this into
an advantage for Spotminders.

And it isn't.

Nope.
It's just something that Spotminders does that Apple does not.
I suggest you purchase what works for you, not necessarily for me.

Again, my initial post to this thread was :

"Even though I have both an Android and iPhone, I use "Spotminders tags" because they work great, at least for me.
Make sure you order direct from them because there are
many knockoffs out there."

<Message-ID: <10le46b$sb14$1@pothead.dont-email.me>


After which you went bonkers just like you did at the start of the thread
where Joel mentioned he preferred Samsung over Apple.

You have some kind of a mental disorder where you spend inordinate amounts of time trying to justify Apple as the better choice compared to the competition and
when you are given specifics about why a poster might prefer the competition you
did and dig with the but "whatabout" routine and nitpick over every minor aspect
in order for you to justify Apple.

I have a single piece of advice for you Alan.
Go out and purchase 2 dozen Apple Airtag 2 devices and string them across the shrine
you no doubt have constructed to worship Apple in front of !
They will fit in perfectly !

Adieu
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Teach a Democrat to fish and......
He'll steal your rod
Take your wallet
Assault the fish &
Blame Trump.

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On 2026-02-01 12:55, pothead wrote:

On 2026-02-01, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2026-01-31 13:52, pothead wrote:

On 2026-01-30, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2026-01-29 17:33, pothead wrote:

So aside from needing to remember to charge it twice as often...

...how is this an advantage?

Valiant effort but once again you lose.
Just one example, when you register your Spotminders device you get an email
notifying you that it's time to charge.

I did a little research...

...and it turns out your claim that Spotminders emails you when it's
time to charge is just so much bullshit.

What "they" DO do...

(and this is the part where you're just to sloppy to get it right--it's >>>> the Tracking Cards themselves, not Spotminders)

...is, when their batteries are running low, they send a notification
through the Apple "Find My" network...

...which is precisely what AirTags do.

So, check and mate.

:-)

Incorrect.
They do both.
The email is based upon the date of purchase and assumes you put the device into
service fully charged around that date.
So 2 ways Spotminders reminds you vs 1 way Airtag reminds you.

So you get ONE email...

Got it.

But the larger point you miss is that you were trying to turn this into
an advantage for Spotminders.

And it isn't.

Nope.
It's just something that Spotminders does that Apple does not.

Because by the very nature of the Apple system, you get notified anyway.

I suggest you purchase what works for you, not necessarily for me.

Again, my initial post to this thread was :

"Even though I have both an Android and iPhone, I use "Spotminders tags"

Right: "tags".

because they work great, at least for me.
Make sure you order direct from them because there are
many knockoffs out there."

<Message-ID: <10le46b$sb14$1@pothead.dont-email.me>

After which you went bonkers just like you did at the start of the thread where Joel mentioned he preferred Samsung over Apple.

How is pointing out that Spotminders TAGS have no advantages over
Apple's product (except a hole)...

...and one major disadvantage (not supporting UWB for locating them)...

...going "bonkers"?

You have some kind of a mental disorder where you spend inordinate amounts of time trying to justify Apple as the better choice compared to the competition and
when you are given specifics about why a poster might prefer the competition you
did and dig with the but "whatabout" routine and nitpick over every minor aspect
in order for you to justify Apple.

You have some kind of mental disorder where you cannot admit that you
started talking about the WRONG PRODUCT.
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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> news:10lluuo$37bd7$5@pothead.dont-email.me
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:15:52 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:

On 2026-01-31, Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> wrote:

After the small amount of interaction I've been having with the
individual, I'm starting to understand why some of you refer to him as
Anal and suggest he be filtered. Evidently, he's quite a bit like Snit
in so far as trolling. I can't continue to justify wasting my time
responding to him when he's intentionally going out of his way to
ignore the evidence I've shared multiple times while accusing me of
telling stories and being dishonest.

I haven't written any stories and haven't been dishonest in any
possible way. I wrote some specific things concerning some Apple
computers effectively turning into paperweights when and if the
internal soldered SSD that you cannot easily replace fails. I supported
what I wrote with various links to youtube vidoes that were created by
a respected individual in the pcb repair scene. He specializes in Apple
repairs - He knows what he's talking about. I've also shared google
search query and the results of them. And, a discussions.apple link
that also supports what I wrote.

Alan is a snit clone although unlike snit, Alan does know Apple products
very well. He will cherry pick, use semantics, ignore links and sidestep
and so forth. And he projects, big time, just like snit.

I did notice those traits. What confirmed it for me was his subject change
and accusation that I 'ran away' - That's something snit would write. I
don't know what Alan does/doesn't know about Apple products, though. He
didn't know that when the internal SSD dies he can't use external media to boot the machine and continue using it. That wouldn't be a big deal
normally in terms of someones knowledge level; but this isn't something
'new' with Apple. It was another design decision they made several years
ago.

If Alan was as knowledgeable with mac as you say, he would have known that
and not attempted to be cheeky with his 'i'll just use external media'
reply. He would have known that his mac doesn't support doing that if the internal SSD is non functional. Apple decided to store some of the equ of
the BIOS/UEFI on the SSD nands instead of keeping them in their own chip
as was the past. hh claims this is for 'security'; but that's a weak
argument and is stretching a bit. Mating your touchpad and your display
panel, imo, wasn't done for security; it was done to ensure that you won't easily be replacing a bad screen without them getting their cut.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, hh is similar to both of them.
The hh troll is a hyper focused type troll who will literally analyze
the shape of the cornflakes in his morning cereal bowl and come up with
some convoluted reason why they have certain shapes.
And all the while ignoring the obvious and leaving his common sense at
the door to the laboratory.

<G> I noticed. I've encountered him before though. Some years back on
another newsgroup. David Brooks duped him into assisting his efforts to
try and stalk me. hh fell for it initially. I don't know if hh read other posts or checked me out in greater detail; but he stopped providing David assistance and I had nothing directly to do with that. I enjoyed the
comments he left concerning what David claims is where I live though; only
to find out that hh lives in stinkville NJ. ROFL!

It's akin to being the weatherman on TV giving all kinds of scientific evidence as to why it's snowing outside without ever looking out the
window because if he did he would see it was sunny outside with no
snowstorm in sight. He's basically a solution in search of a problem.

Also his replies turn into "War and Piece" length dissertations.

I noticed that too. :)

Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I suspected something was up. I won't waste any additional time with them. I will let the posts along with this
one go out in the batch as intended. I suspected I was being jerked around when they both started going off topic a bit; hh asking about other
soldered components, mentioning capacitors, etc. Then trying to spin what
I shared from google results onto PCs. Sure, in some cases, a dead SSD
could prevent a PC from booting; but you can clear the fault and regain
access to the PC. With the Apple, once the internal SSD goes you are
pretty well fucked. As I wrote originally and more than supported.

That's what I get for giving people the benefit of the doubt in a
newsgroup where I haven't interacted with enough people yet to get the lay
of the land. My bad. <G>
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Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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On Feb 9, 2026 at 8:38:16rC>PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote <XnsB3EEE648FB201HT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:

Q:

Write a psychological profile of the author of this post, fact and logic check his claims, and determine if there is any content worthy of a reply. Then
write a short summary suitable for posting on Usenet.

A:

1. Psychological profile of the author (rCLGremlinrCY)

Observed traits:

rCo Highly adversarial, identity-driven posting style. The author frames disagreements as battles against rCLtrolls,rCY rCLsnit clones,rCY and supposed stalkers. This is classic in long-running Usenet feuds: people become characters rather than just posters.

rCo Paranoia-adjacent thinking. Claims about coordinated stalking, being rCLdupedrCY into being stalked by others, and identifying behavioral rCLtellsrCY that
supposedly prove someone is a known troll point to a mindset primed to see hostile intent everywhere.

rCo Strong need for validation and alliance-building. The post leans heavily on rCLthanks for confirming my suspicions,rCY grouping enemies together,
and constructing an in-group vs out-group narrative.

rCo Projection and mirror behavior. He accuses others of ignoring evidence, being dishonest, changing subject, and writing long dissertations rCo while doing many of those same things himself (long post, off-topic personal history, rhetorical attacks).

rCo Grievance-focused memory. He recalls old Usenet drama, named enemies, and past conflicts in detail. ThatrCOs typical of people deeply embedded in flame-war culture over years.

rCo Emotionally charged language. Mockery, insults, and profanity are doing social signaling here: this is about status and dominance in the group more than about the original technical topic.

...

The internal SSD failure issue on modern Macs is real, but itrCOs being overstated here. On Apple Silicon and some T2-based Macs, key boot components are tied to internal storage, so catastrophic SSD failure can effectively
brick the machine and prevent external boot. On older Intel Macs, this generally isnrCOt true, and external boot remains viable. The broader criticism about reduced repairability is fair, but framing this as universal or purely malicious design ignores the security architecture Apple uses for secure boot and hardware trust chains.

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