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If you're a tinkerer there's a project called OpenHaystack that lets you make your own tags that leech off Apple's Find My network. I've got a couple dozen of them at this point and they work flawlessly.
I'm a tinkerer but I have terrible tech skills. Do you think a project like that is beginner friendly?
Kinda? It's fairly polished, but it does require a computer (or VM) running MacOS, a compatible microcontroller to act as a tag and a TTL adapter to program it. The programming itself is handled by the OpenHaystack software though.
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-to-use-openhaystack
I hope you know that apple is about to kill mail plugins https://www.idownloadblog.com/2023/06/15/macos-sonoma-legacy-plug-ins-apple-mail-extensions/ Hope it works with extensions as well