r/interestingasfuck • u/AdministrativeMud907 • 7d ago

A girl saves her boyfriend from a robbery by pointing a machine gun at two armed robbers.(Texas) r/all

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u/cat2phatt 7d ago

What kind of robbers were these that allowed him to pick up his phone when he dropped it?

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u/MaleficentCoach6636 7d ago

people will rob you via cashapp or venmo burner accounts, you can make 1 transaction before they ban it so they make the victim send them money and then send the money off the burner account before it gets banned

also up volume and power button is how to disable Faceid on iphone. people forget that physical wallets are getting phased out for your digital smart phone wallet. corporations are already dealing with crypto robberies it was only a matter of time before that style of crime is passed on to the avg person

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u/arichnad 7d ago

Excuse my ignorance, but why does disabling faceid help? If they can compel you to give them your login pin, or password, or anything, I'm not sure how disabling faceid helps anything. Everything else you said really makes sense, thanks.

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u/no_brains101 7d ago edited 7d ago

They can kill you and use your face, but not your pin. It also takes only like 2 seconds to point the phone at them, but longer to force someone to give you the pin. Longer than they want to be engaged with the person for. Not having face id, and especially having a phone that looks like it doesn't have face id can save you here.

You can also sometimes wrap a picture of your face around a mannequin, so they can just look for your Facebook... Depends how good the picture or the implementation of faceID is. I can confirm that this worked at one point but maybe not anymore... You could do it when it first came out though...

If you have an iPhone, they might assume it does have face id. And also that you have money to burn because you bought a status symbol that doesn't do anything extra outside of having a good camera. But a budget android and they'll pick someone else.

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u/Deal_Hugs_Not_Drugs 7d ago

Calm down android fanboy, save some pussy for the rest of us

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u/no_brains101 7d ago

Im not an android fanboy. Or a fangirl. Im a fan of paying 150$ for a phone because i dont need a good camera.

Im pretty anti apple though, their "walled garden" of overpriced accessories with compatibility issues with anything else makes me question anyone's sanity who buys them.

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u/send-fat-dick-pics 6d ago

and yet your $150 phone’s “face id” can be fooled with a picture and probably doesn’t get updates for more than 6 months… there are real reasons to use an iphone. i’ve used both over the last decade and it’s just a better experience

besides, most people in america are on the phone their carrier rents to them anyway. cost isn’t an issue for me, and i picked iphone. same goes for most of us.

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u/ParsonsTheGreat 6d ago

Why do Apple fan boys always get so angry and judgemental anytime anyone says "eh, I prefer Android"? There are advantages and disadvantages to both, get over it already lol

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u/Deal_Hugs_Not_Drugs 6d ago

That’s not what they said, they literally said Apple was a waste of money.

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u/no_brains101 6d ago

No, my phone doesnt have face id and never has. I tested on an iphone.

And iphones STOP RECIEVING UPDATES.... So do macs. They do it more often than other companies. Thats an apple thing, and its designed to make you buy a new phone or computer just so that you can have a secure device....

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u/send-fat-dick-pics 6d ago

I never said forever, i said more than a few months. this is the problem with you android people, strawman arguments. nothing gets updates forever.

as for consumer cellphones, apple support is typically the longest. even flagship androids typically only gets updates for a year.

would love to see the source and results of your “testing” too - the nature of the tech makes that highly implausible at best. you’re the one going on about implementations here bud

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u/no_brains101 6d ago

What do you mean the results of my "testing"

I printed off a mesh of a picture of my friends face and wrapped it around a mannequin she had and it let me in... I did it to convince her to turn off faceID and it worked.

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u/send-fat-dick-pics 6d ago

I really doubt that. You gonna provide any proof or just an anecdote?

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u/no_brains101 6d ago

Nothing before iphone 10 works anymore

But i will concede, my memory was lacking, I looked it up, they both have support for pretty much the exact same amount of time, but android needs to support a lot of different types of devices, whereas apple only has to support their phone model.

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u/send-fat-dick-pics 6d ago

Emergency security updates come for much longer. Not to mention - iPhone X was released in 2017. That’s a long time ago.

And is that not an argument squarely in apple’s favor? Insecure is insecure. After 7 years I’m almost certainly gearing up for a replacement anyway, whereas an android would have ran its entire useful lifecycle much faster.

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u/no_brains101 6d ago

Holy shit its been that long?

Regardless, I want the 150$ phone because I skate and I feel bad breaking an iphone that cost 1k every 2 years.

Meanwhile this nokia smartphone will not die lmao its been dropped out of moving vehicles and the screen isnt even broken XD

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u/send-fat-dick-pics 6d ago

That is a fair argument haha, most of my phones are killed a little sooner than any of this matters bc I drop them.

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