An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.

  • morto@piefed.social
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    28 days ago

    Friendly advice: never put your entire life in the hands of a corporation!

    Also, the migration from local storage to the “cloud” was never a good thing for us, and the small gain in convenience wasn’t worth it, but most people don’t seem to realize that.

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      28 days ago

      The day “my personal cloud” stopped exclusively referring to my farts was a very good day for me.

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      27 days ago

      How long before an AI company buys all the hard drive supplies and foces us to use cloud storage?

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        27 days ago

        Cloud storage? Oh, that’s the wrong mindset. With the “agi”, you won’t ever need to store data, because everything you need can be generated on-demand /j

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      28 days ago

      …never put your entire life in the hands of a corporation!

      Tesla fans: have you lost your fucking mind