Hi HN, I'm working from coffee shops with my laptop and I'm going to the toilet time to time.
I was worried that someone can steal my laptop while I'm away. So I built a macOS app. It will detect If someone will disconnect the charger or close the display and the app will sound an alarm and send a push notification to Telegram.
I think gyroscope/accelerometer is deprecated in MacBook started from ~2012. It's called Sudden Motion Sensor or SMS. There is a command called "sudo pmset -g" and if SMS, if is exist, will show "sms: 1" or "sms: 0". Reference: https://www.lifewire.com/manage-mac-sudden-motion-sensor-sms...
My MacBook Retina 2014 do not have any SMS record.
I'm looking forward to visiting South Africa and South America, but that's kinda scary at the same time.
A question though: what happens if a thief turns off the macbook sound?
It's a good question. Right now if there is at least any sound (not muted) it will increase sound to maximum automatically but if someone will mute the sound it will be muted. I'm working on it right now to prevent mute the sound.
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