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 Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it.

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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      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I’m quite prone to this. Even as I’m consciously resisting slipping into this fallacy, I can still feel that there is a pernicious and persistent kernel at my core that clings to the idea of a just world. For me, it is less about a moral kind of justice, more like a deep belief in some sense of underlying, teleological order to the world.

        I know that this is silly, in every way that it is possible to know a thing. And yet, I can’t seem to sway that deep down part of me that devoutly believes that actually, everything makes sense.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 days 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)