20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
hey.paris
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple …

Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.

932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I’m quite prone to this. Even as I’m consciously resisting slipping into this fallacy, I can still feel that there is a pernicious and persistent kernel at my core that clings to the idea of a just world. For me, it is less about a moral kind of justice, more like a deep belief in some sense of underlying, teleological order to the world.

        I know that this is silly, in every way that it is possible to know a thing. And yet, I can’t seem to sway that deep down part of me that devoutly believes that actually, everything makes sense.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I mean I’m not in any danger of losing my personal documents because I have 3 copies stored on various media/services.

      I’m also not so heavily invested into any one media or software distribution ecosystem that I would be devastated if lost access to it.

      You aren’t powerless unless you make the choice to be. (Either intentionally or just out of not knowing the alternatives)

            • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              8 months ago

              I would actually, that’s the point. A backup plan is cheap. If you can afford a modern smartphone you can afford a backup plan.

                • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  I’m not suggesting anyone gets a recurring subscription at all. You can buy the most dogshit pc or even something like an off brand raspberry pi and a $10 microsd card with hundreds of gigabytes of storage and have a permanent data backup solution. You can even skip the device if you’re really struggling. Microsd cards are dirt cheap.

                  Combine that with grabbing several free tiers of data storage like Google, Proton, mega, filen, etc, you can rack up hundreds of gigabytes of storage, each with its own account so if one goes down or you lose access you can have the same data on the others. This can be for maximum priority data but even for low priority you can fit a lot of data on 15gb if it’s not all high quality photos and videos.

                  And if I can reach a bit, even a 2nd phone is viable. Many phones are under $100 and they, at the bare minimum, “work” so one such phone can be kept as a backup.

                  There are many, many ways to have a very cheap backup plan. It’s more about logistics than storage, and only requires a little bit of thinking and planning.

                  I was once in a place where I couldn’t afford an extra $2 a month, like you mentioned. But I ALWAYS had a backup plan, and sometimes it was completely free.