apple strong arming me into purchasing a $1000 device every few years that shatters to pieces when inevitably dropped
I have 12 gigs of text messages in their cloud I’m unwilling to part with, as well as a phone number I’ve had for nearly 20 years now. Switching out of apple just isn’t feasible to me, especially when my personal usage/development laptop is a mac as well.
Meanwhile ATT gouges the fuck out of me with a $120/month plan just for myself. Going over there later to raise some hell and try to get a new phone for free, because my iphone 8 has finally crapped out and people have probably been trying to call me for a week. If not I will go through the hell of changing providers. losing my phone number is basically not an option.
Fuck you ATT, fuck you apple, fuck you tech companies that lock you into services out of necessary convenience rather than by being a good product.
wtf my cell phone bill is like $40/month on Google Fi with comparable coverage all the places I need to be (and free international, not that I’m doing any traveling these days)
Yeah, capitalism means that with stuff like this, especially telecoms, we (consumers) just have to eat shit and there’s nothing we can do about it.
That said, your phone number is supposed to be portable between providers (e.g., from AT&T to Sprint) and shouldn’t be affected by a choice between an iOS phone and an Android phone.
Although one reason why portability wouldn’t be guaranteed is if you’ve moved to a different area since you got the number, which is probably a real possibility? You likely know some or all of this info but I thought I’d throw it out there just in case.
Yea the phone number is not likely an issue - but it can be tricky from what I remember
Really just being locked into apple products is what I’m pissed about. It’s simply too convenient, I cannot ever switch over. Maybe that means they made a good product or whatever but if there was a way where I could easily transfer my entire iphone and cloud data over to an android device I would 1000% snap call.
Now I’m locked into them, and they can charge me whatever they want for their overpriced shit that stops working after a few years
photos and stuff (which can be backed up it’s just a pain). I guess it’s mostly the texts. I like to have a full record of my conversations with people - and the search function makes it pretty easy to go back in time and look at what was said. Don’t ask me why this became necessary for me… Lol. I basically have not deleted a single text in almost a decade.
I got the iphone 12, and apparently something else I’m really fucking bummed about losing are all my porn bookmarks. I had a pretty healthy sized trove, and they’re all gone. Not in my cloud or anywhere else that I can find. Screw you apple
I almost always look up texts (or emails or forum posts) to verify what I claim someone said before I claim they said it, so I can relate to wanting to document everything.
You didn’t have your porn bookmarks synced to a computer or iPad or other non-phone device?
Yea it really helps me because my memory is so bad and when someone starts to tell me something that happened so and so months ago and I can’t remember, I can just go look.
I did an iphone backup on my mac in october when my phone started failing. The battery died so for the last few months it would only work while plugged in to a mac. Since I never leave the house, this was no problem at all for me. Last week it finally wouldn’t power on at all, so I just got around to getting the 12. I would think bookmarks would have transferred over, but they didn’t, and 90% of my week is already spent solving tech problems so when I encounter this in my personal life I tend to give up very easily and not want to approach anything remotely like troubleshooting it. That’s the stage I’m in now, “fuck it.”
I did get my monthly plan down to 60 bucks though, so I paid for this phone already.
Safari, and they didn’t. Just can’t be troubled anymore. Maybe they’ll turn up. I don’t remember how I did it last time but feel like it was 3ish years ago and I did the same thing and didn’t lose anything.
Most of the links die anyway. Only stuff from the last 1-3 months is typically relevant. Already over it, and found a new thing to be pissed about
I find the flavor of peppermint genuinely disgusting if used in anything that is not meant to freshen your breath. I have these nasty ass peppermint cookie chocolate things leftover from some stupid corporate christmas goodie bag and they are fucking disgusting, even when baked out of my mind I cannot scarf down even half of one of these things.
Who the fuck is that for? why make peppermint flavored anything?
Yes I realize thin mints are a massive hole in this rant, as those are delicious, but what other than thin mints have peppermint in them and don’t taste like actual toothpaste?
With you here. For example, standard peppermint candy cane is the weakest candy cane. I mean its still fine, but pretty much every other flavored candy cane is better than peppermint.
My wife trolls me by installing the roll of toilet paper so the toilet paper rolls out from under the bottom, not from over the top, and it drives me absolutely fucking BANANAS.
I’m just sitting there minding (doing) my business and I see that she got me AGAIN.
