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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by deejayy »

Aurornis wrote: post #836
heavyset_go wrote: post #833

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the "would you eat from a jar of M&M's where one is cyanide? well what if there are X x 1000 M&M's?" principle. It's easier to just eat something else, and not from the jar, than take an unnecessary risk, even if that risk is unlikely.

> It's the "would you eat from a jar of M&M's where one is cyanide? well what if there are X x 1000 M&M's?" principle. This captures the Hacker News style misjudgment of risk very well. First, none of these issues are equivalent to eating cyanide in any way, shape, or form. The extreme melodrama of upgrading "someone's PayPal account was erroneously locked" to literally being poisoned to death is emblematic of the mi…

The problem is not the risk itself but the inability to resolve the issue. This way, it's not just an "inconvenience" but sometimes a lifes work lost.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

DrammBA wrote: post #838
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #108

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The issue with OneDrive is that it doesn’t store metadata like the photo location, its damn near useless. But I do pay for storage for Google Photos and iCloud. If you take all of your photos from your phone, you don’t need your Mac at all. Google Photos will sync directly. I wouldn’t use BackBlaze (the $7 a month service). It doesn’t support NAS at all and it has to phone home every 30 days or it will erase anything…

> It’s less than $2 a month for 2TB. What would be the egress fee to get your data back in case of disaster?

The cheapest slowest egress, bulk retrieval is $2.56 per terrabyte.

Glacier is meant for in case of emergency break glass. You would use lifecycle policies on S3 to go from fast/more expensive storage for like the first 90 days and then have it automatically go to Glacier.

Yes I know it’s more complicated and nuanced. I’m purposefully yada yada yada’ing

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by sylens »

andreashaerter wrote: post #684

I don't get the mostly black/white "Self-host" vs. "Mega-Corp" discussions as there is a middle ground: smaller managed service providers (even: per-service). You don't have to self-host everything in your basement, and you don't have to hand your entire digital life to Google or Apple either. Mail, CalDAV/CardDAV, Immich, Nextcloud, OpenCloud, OpenTalk, web hosting, Kubernetes, simple VMs.. whatever ... fully manage…

Upvoting this because I don't see this sentiment expressed too often on here. In fact, I often see the opposite. "Why would I pay $X*2 for this service when I can just pay $X to Google for the same thing?" Sometimes it takes a little more money to support these smaller managed service providers

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by bl4kers »

akho wrote: post #394
snowe2010 wrote: post #141

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Yeah literally the exact same thing can happen on android and windows. The solution is regulation, not ridiculous solutions like telling billions of people to back up their own stuff.

What's your proposed regulation?

I would support legislation that enforces a right to data export for 6 months in human readable file formats, or a physical equivalent like spending a USB stick in the mail.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by Aurornis »

heavyset_go wrote: post #840
Aurornis wrote: post #836

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's the "would you eat from a jar of M&M's where one is cyanide? well what if there are X x 1000 M&M's?" principle. This captures the Hacker News style misjudgment of risk very well. First, none of these issues are equivalent to eating cyanide in any way, shape, or form. The extreme melodrama of upgrading "someone's PayPal account was erroneously locked" to literally being poisoned to death is emblematic of the mi…

> First, none of these issues are equivalent to eating cyanide in any way, shape, or form. The extreme melodrama of upgrading "someone's PayPal account was erroneously locked" to literally being poisoned to death is emblematic of the misjudgment of risk going on. If you're a business, yes, PayPal locking your account and freezing your funds forever , which is what they do, is tantamount to legal grievous injury or de…

> If you're a business, yes, PayPal locking your account and freezing your funds forever, which is what they do, is tantamount to legal grievous injury or death.

Losing business funds is not equivalent to death, no.

> I used a variable X so you could make it sufficiently large enough that you don't have to rely on the multiplier to understand the analogy.

I was commenting on the "in 1000" part, not the X part.

Sorry, I just can't engage with this level of hyperbole and exaggeration. This isn't a life or death thing.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by firecall »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #108
firecall wrote: post #81

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One rather counter intuitive way to “backup” your photos is to install Google Photos and One Drive on your iPhone! Google and MS don’t charge as much as Apple for storage, and you probably need you need to pay beyond the free limits, but it’s not a huge expense. Once your installed Google Photos and One Drive on your iPhone, just tell the apps to sync all your photos all the time! Now I appreciate that isn’t for ever…

The issue with OneDrive is that it doesn’t store metadata like the photo location, its damn near useless. But I do pay for storage for Google Photos and iCloud. If you take all of your photos from your phone, you don’t need your Mac at all. Google Photos will sync directly. I wouldn’t use BackBlaze (the $7 a month service). It doesn’t support NAS at all and it has to phone home every 30 days or it will erase anything…

I’m suggesting you do both One Drive and Google!

Also, to be clear, I’m saying to install One Drive and Google Photos on your iPhone.

My approach to this is based around having the least amount of things to manage.

In my scenario, I’m looking for the most simple out of the box systems to backing up that don’t require any self hosted solutions or NAS management and so on.

Just throw money at it!

Hence my suggestion to get a Mac, say a Mac Mini, with a decent sized drive and just sync everything to it.

Fully sync so it downloads the lot and need off loads.

The backup the internal drive with Backblaze.

I appreciate this advice isn’t for everyone, and it may not be the best solution.

But it’s a way to a least have some ultimate disaster recovery in place!

It may not be the cheapest, and cheapest doesn’t mean best. It may not be the best by some other measure of features, but it works and requires zero knowledge and additional hardware.

At least with some kind of backup, everything is not lost!

You don’t have to manage it or think about it. The services will sync for years without intervention until you upgrade your devices. For most people, that’s the important factor in having multi backups of their photos and documents!

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by Aurornis »

igor47 wrote: post #811
Aurornis wrote: post #799

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Comments like this remind me of my distant relatives who proudly live out in the countryside and avoid traveling to big cities for any reason. They see a lot of Fox News headlines about bad things happening in big cities and they've concluded those bad things are happening all the time. So they constantly congratulate themselves for not going to the nearest city, look down upon people who spend time in cities, warn u…

Huh you got me with this analogy. On the other hand, can't this be said about any bad thing? Few bad things are always bad. A few examples: * My liberal relatives won't own guns because they keep hearing stories about how guns are deadly, even though I own guns and nobody's died yet * My friend's kid won't pet puppies because he heard they bite sometimes * My aunt in Moscow didn't want to vote for Putin because he's…

Bad isn't a binary judgment you can place on something.

Everything has a level of risk and reward associated with it. It's up to everyone to judge the risk versus reward.

The flaw I see a lot in the HN comments trying to get people to abandon Big Tech is that they're coming from people who overestimate the risks while underestimating the benefits to other people.

Abandoning a lot of convenience for fear of some rare outcome might be a perfectly good choice for someone who doesn't use those conveniences (e.g. Linux user who doesn't want cloud storage for photos because they enjoy setting up their own elaborate backup schemes) but it's not a good tradeoff for the average person who just wants their photos backed up and either doesn't want to or doesn't trust themselves to set up a good backup solution.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by [deleted] »

Aurornis wrote: post #848
igor47 wrote: post #811

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh you got me with this analogy. On the other hand, can't this be said about any bad thing? Few bad things are always bad. A few examples: * My liberal relatives won't own guns because they keep hearing stories about how guns are deadly, even though I own guns and nobody's died yet * My friend's kid won't pet puppies because he heard they bite sometimes * My aunt in Moscow didn't want to vote for Putin because he's…

Bad isn't a binary judgment you can place on something. Everything has a level of risk and reward associated with it. It's up to everyone to judge the risk versus reward. The flaw I see a lot in the HN comments trying to get people to abandon Big Tech is that they're coming from people who overestimate the risks while underestimating the benefits to other people. Abandoning a lot of convenience for fear of some rare…

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Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by singleshot_ »

tonymet wrote: post #725
singleshot_ wrote: post #575

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How precisely do you reckon a lawyer would help?

The legal Deparment runs most companies . They are the only way to get something bespoke done (like unlocking an account ). And companies are terrified of discovery. Any lawyer can file a complaint in small claims . OP has paid for a service and has a contract TOS is binding to both parties .

Didn't they boot him for a ToS violation?

> Any lawyer can file a complaint in small claims .

No, in many states _no_ lawyer can file a complaint (except his own) in small claims court.

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