posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
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@parisba let’s keep all the data about entire life on proprietary, American, corporate software!! It can’t go wrong, right? Right???
Btw, I think it would be beneficial to move all government data (especially European) to some American, proprietary software like this. The scale would save us so much money!!!
Oh wait, we have no access anymore? And some AI gives our secrets to others?? Can’t be 🫨
@parisba let’s keep all the data about entire life on proprietary, American, corporate software!! It can’t go wrong, right? Right???
Btw, I think it would be beneficial to move all government data (especially European) to some American, proprietary software like this. The scale would save us so much money!!!
Oh wait, we have no access anymore? And some AI gives our secrets to others?? Can’t be 🫨
@parisba Sorry to hear that. Apple are treating you terribly.
If anything good comes of this, it would be that people stop supporting 🇺🇸 Big Tech oligarchies.
We should abandon Apple, Alphabet, Meta, X, etc.
For the people saying why use gift cards that big, you can cash out credit card rewards for gift cards and Apple is a popular choice. Paid for most of a MacBook Pro with 3 $500 gift cards, though I’d be nervous to do it now!
@parisba Find My is probably the reason you can't logout from your devices. Ironically you can even enable Find My while your account is locked (I did at some point, it's just a switch), but then you can't disable it (because for turning the switch off it requires your password, thus a login, and you're locked out of that). Fortunately in my case it was a simple lock due to probably too many invalid password errors and I was able to unlock it by email, but it's a terrible trap nonetheless.
@parisba Hi Paris, this is awful! I am back with my previous employer and have access to an Enterprise Support Account which has plenty of headroom to put in a ticket on your behalf. Hit me up on Monday?
@parisba it's why i moved out of apple it work wonder when it work, but when it don't you are screwd
@parisba as a human beeing: sorry to hear
as an open source, self host fanatic: i have no sympathy for this issue
Relying on commercial big tech for all your digital data can almost not be avoided. We should steer away from it… the cloud is just somebody else’s computer.
Go open source whenever possible…
Clear and enforceable rules and regulations are needed to protect the users against these murky unpredictable and in-transparant monopolies that can simply ban without reasoning.
@parisba I'm really sorry for your loss, but it's never a good idea to have all eggs in one basket, especially photos and such w/o a backup.
Also gift cards, key codes or anything designed for a middle man is always a massive risk in my book, so many people have lost their Steam accounts for redeeming a code that'd been purchased with a stolen CC.
