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.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 month 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)