20 Jahre digitales Leben sind dank Apple im Handumdrehen vorbei
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
20 Jahre digitales Leben sind dank Apple im Handumdrehen vorbei
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
23 Kommentare
Damn, this sucks. Welcome to Linux/Windows?
I wish you the best, if you ever get access, you might want to exfiltrate your data to local storage as well (NAS or such).
The same guy who posted this had $60,000 AUD “stolen” from wise some time ago…
Two options … or this guy is very unlucky or …
https://hey.paris/posts/wise/
Well, that is what you get for using the apple cloud. Someone else can and will dictate the terms. Take back your computing! 🙂
Linux > Windows >>>> Crapple
I’m sorry you are going through this. I’m sure it really sucks. However, you didn’t really own any of what you were using, and now the enormous corporation who actually owned your devices and data decided to stop playing ball. Now you have no recourse.
I’ve also just recently heard about some AI dev that had all his Google stuff taken away as well because he was working with some crazy dataset and decompressed it onto cloud storage, not knowing better.
I get that their stuff looks pretty and „just works“ but there’s a reason I’m on Linux with my own backup infrastructure and servers. This story is yet another case study in misplaced trust.
Makes me think if this guy who lost access to his massive Kindle library after disputing an undelivered Amazon physical purchase with his bank.
It shows to not lock oneself too much into one ecosystem . And that the tech giant won’t care to investigate any of their own mistake.
This should be a national, mainstream story.
Sounds like its time to get a lawyer.
Nice blog. Do you need some prompts for your next creative writing assignment?
No hard drive/flash drive backup – Really?
Err, what?
I worked for a group that had a contract with ClarisWorks from Mac. They broke the contract and when we protested they said “ What are you going to do? sue us?“ Just a start up with no cash and no legal representation. The contract was a valueless piece of paper.
what
you don’t trust the integrity of the hey.paris website?
> “an additional escalation won’t lead to a different outcome”.
This is complete bullshit too! I had an issue a few years ago with a couple Apple gift cards. I had placed an order for a new phone that was to be delivered in a month. But then I found one at a local store. When I went in they cancelled my order but my gift cards weren’t refunded. I spent the next week talking to a different representative every day who all told me I would see the funds within 24 hours. And when that kept not happening they told me that same line of “an additional escalation won’t lead to a different outcome”. But when I finally insisted on escalating it despite what they were telling me, the next person I talked to had my gift cards refunded instantly
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Most obvious AI written fake article of all time yet all the replies falling for it because Apple bad
Microsoft did the same thing to me. I lost everything… all my kids‘ baby pictures and videos from onedrive, hundreds of xbox games, etc. it was huge. All I did was add bitlocker encryption to my onedrive. When it encrypted, I assume something was flagged. There was absolutely nothing of interest to anyone in that one drive, no porn, no… nothing. Just family photos, documents, etc. No unlicensed software images, and nothing shared at all. It made no sense. I am an executive for a very large MS partner – there were no strings I could pull. No human that I could verify would actually have a look. I was told it was a major terms of service violation. I had no recourse… I tried for years. I now use a mac, back everything up multi-cloud, and locally on a NAS. MS’s decision has cost them literally many tens of millions of dollars as I have steered my organization to other vendors wherever possible – and I still do. I silently fuck them over.
This is the sort of thing we get for letting saas take over everything and allowing corporations to have control everything you “own”.
Welcome to the world of owning nothing. But that’s OK right? Not a problem! Not like the infrastructure would ever make a mistake or would be taken down for arbitrary reasons, right?….
I fear that the downfall of man will not be war, but that we will have everything run by a closed infrastructure system where faulty logic AI administrators run everything with no human oversight. where no human alive has administrative access, and we are all but users.
Huge wake up call. Your data and accounts are not safe anymore. Time to actively secure it.
I dumped Facebook and all its dependencies. Dumped Apple long time ago thankfully, and now working my way into highly secure encrypted phones with independent Android. New Linux laptop and own home servers.
The future of freedom is secure data.
I do NOT store personal files only on iCloud. I treat it as a temporary transfer point. Same for Google, even though I use Google business and a custom domain. Far too much hassle if there’s a business process issue like the author described.
Scary
Not sure why people are making fun of him for not having a backup when his entire post is about not being able to sync between multiple devices he owns and locked out of critical services including message
Which quite frankly is scary as hell regardless of apple’s justification. If he tries to sell his devices it’d be a crazy difficult migration and he’d have to sell his equipment at a discount and buy brand new windows and android devices. The idea that big tech can do that to you on a whim is scary.
Once every few months I backup all of my photos onto an external hard drive.
I cannot understand how anyone, much less anyone with experience with computers or the tech sector, would trust anything these clowns tell you… without a personal backup of your own. Yes, cloud computing is easy… until it’s not.