• IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t have any luggage or bags that use locks like that.

    There is no point.

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      11 hours ago

      There is a point: make your bag slightly less attractive to steal from. You don’t have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun someone else.

      Thank you for being the someone else.

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        10 hours ago

        WTF are they going to steal? your underwear?

        Anyone stealing luggage won’t give a shit about some POS tumbler lock…

        The risk with your luggage is that its get lost.

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          10 hours ago

          You said there’s no point. I contend there is a point.

          The point is to make it slightly less convenient to steal from. This is the purpose of literally all locks. There are no locks that can’t be picked or bypassed. I don’t care if it’s my underwear, pants, shirts, shoes, whatever. They’re mine and I packed them because I want to use them. I’d prefer they’re not stolen, and some of my clothes are valuable, or at least I don’t want to spend the money to replace them.

          Maybe someone’s just having a shit day and wants to fuck with luggage to be obnoxious. I’d rather it not be mine, and a lock makes my bag slightly more annoying to fuck with.

          Agreed that a lost bag is much more likely than theft. I have an AirTag in my bag to help with that scenario.

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        10 hours ago

        My luggage leaves my direct sight exactly zero times. Gonna be akward to steal from it…

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah I agree. I don’t keep anything valuable in my luggage because I don’t need the risk when checked. I could lose my luggage and it would just be boo hoo. A bunch of clothes lol sucks but not the end of the world.

      I just have a lockable zipper on my personal item. That’s been enough all these years, plus common sense. xD