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parisidau

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About parisidau

I'm is co-founder of Secret Lab, the oldest game development studio in Hobart, Australia.

We're best known for working on "Night in the Woods", which won a BAFTA. Now we make Yarn Spinner, the best dialogue tool for games: https://yarnspinner.dev

I formerly worked as mobile product manager for Meebo (acquired by Google) in the US, have a PhD in Computing, and write technical books (around 20 so far!) for O’Reilly Media.

I can be found on BlueSky at @hey.paris and online at http://hey.paris and on Mastodon at @parisba@cloudisland.nz

You can email me at paris@hn.why.wtf

Secret Lab can be found at http://www.secretlab.games

I also run the oldest iOS/macOS developer conference in Autralia/New Zealand, /dev/world: http://www.devworld.au

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    I've added a few updates on the original post, but there's no fix yet: https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ Feel free to chat to me on Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/hey.paris ) or…

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    Whatever you’re quoting isn’t about me, the OP in this case…

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    Here, I Googled it for you https://www.apple.com/iwork/

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    Apple (via Executive Relations) says they won't do anything. Guess I'm stuffed.

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    I prefer to keep it topped up like that. It's been the same for 20 years.

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    Let's hope so...

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    I have spoken verbally to multiple members of Apple's support teams. Apologies if that was unclear. I didn't record this calls, as they did not permit me to.

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    I live in Tasmania, a state of Australia that is 1) an island, and 2) has no Apple Stores.

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    Totally agree.

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    It's been done, a few days ago. Nothing yet, but here's hoping.

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    I would like to think you're wrong, but if they fix this, you're possibly right. My career is built on Apple technologies. I don't love that I'm captured by a vendor, but I have a …

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    Absolutely, but that doesn't solve my immediate issue of my devices and accounts, but of course I will do that.

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    I do have backups of most data, including photos, but there are things you can't backup like shared actively edited iWork documents, and things like that. I can rebuild from it, bu…

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    Pardon? Why do you think I sound like a crazy person? Go on, please do. Also APP 13 is tangentially relevant, for sure, but not the crux of it. APP 13 is far less relevant than, fo…

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    I would argue the source of the information doesn’t matter. The bank disclosed a phone number of a customer to another customer.

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    I mean, Procreate comes from here, and is a lot more interesting than Canva, to me: https://procreate.com

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