Plenty of my searches will lead me to a solid stackoverflow / reddit / quora / forum answer but another large percentage only seem to lead to the blog equivalent of the offending YouTube videos, hyper tuned to show a description that leads me to believe it's what I want but delivering nothing.
But, to be fair, the Google-as-front-door internet has become totally useless for these types of tasks as well. Those wiki-style pages with huge walls of text offering nonsense advice are a plague.
A lot of times, you do end up on Reddit and SO, but there are some good forums available if you dig deep, especially for car/HVAC/home maintenance related stuff. Sometimes you have to join a forum and post a question.
They can't google for shit, unfortunately. My fault probably, but as I managed to learn all of this on my own, I expected them to do the same.
From there, one could imagine it working like any other Bluetooth tracker.
1. Formulate as many reasonable hypotheses as possible about what may have happened to the object.
2. For each hypothesis, construct a probability density function for the location of the object.
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