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Someone might enjoy the whole long story with its emotional roller-coaster; this is totally fine. I personally skimmed a few paragraphs, realized that it's not what I enjoy spending my time on, and closed the tab. I find it also perfectly fine.
The fact of that a story is high on the HN front page is an endorsement, but not a guarantee that you in particular would enjoy it. At least I hope the author enjoyed writing it.
There's a million different writing styles. No one expects every book in the library to be written to your particular taste. But for any piece of writing submitted to HN, if it deviates from a dispassionate, terse, action-filled style, the tl;dr crowd come out and start ordering people "don't write" like this.
Note that the airpods were not picked up on the drive to the suburbs, suggesting that nobody in the car had an iPhone. But the author had a clear view of the boy’s phone in the museum and expected to see a “lost” alert on it, implying that he did have an iPhone.
> Casey Johnston is a writer who lives in Los Angeles.
It's not about the AirPods (other than.. obviously it's 'about' the AirPods) - they're just an experience she happened to draw on (or made up) to do some story-telling.
It's not for me either, but I don't think it's weird like you suggest, it's not really a 'blog post' so much as a short story (serialised in magazine/newspaper style), it's not someone keeping a web log or diary and going off the rails on one annoying but fairly insignificant experience.
My iPhone 4 (circa 2011) was stolen from a gym. Find My showed it was at a persons house. I went to the house with police and the person said he didn’t know anything about it. The police said they couldn’t do anything. The guy wasn’t lying.
I then went home, and saw that it was at another house nearby the first place I looked. I found the owner of the house on the internet. I called this time and the guy said the house was a rental. He asked the tenants and they said they didn’t take it. They were also telling the truth.
But they did tell me that their neighbor worked at the same gym I had lost it at. I was a part time fitness instructor there. I asked the manager and the manager told the guy to bring the phone back. He did.
That was in 2011. These days, I wouldn’t even take my phone with me to the gym. I just use my cellular watch to listen to music. I think Find My is basically useless for a stolen device. It’s more useful for a lost device to help you pinpoint where you left it.
I definitely wouldn’t confront anyone about it. It’s not worth the risk in todays world. Then again, I also have both AirPods Pro and a pair of $60 Beats Flex that last 12 hours, have the original Apple wireless chip and I don’t care if they get lost.
As far as my iPhone, I have lost/damage insurance up to $800 on my Amex just by paying the monthly cell phone bill on it.
This comment made me a bit frustrated. If a post weren't your taste why not ignore it? Don't write an entire comment on how pathetic you are for not having restraint and being whiny.
Gun violence is a real problem I’m frustrated isn’t being tackled, but let’s not get scared to live our lives.
America has over 300 million people living in it. It might be way more likely that you’ll be shot in the USA than anywhere else, and it might also be more likely than it was in the past, but it’s still extremely unlikely that you will ever be shot.
What would you have done?