A large department store sold someone an apple gift card that was likely stolen/already redeemed, apple responded by permanently closing his apple account, bricking his devices and causing him to lose access to 20 years of saved media in iCloud
Edit: in the FAQ section he says that he has backups so that’s good. Main damage is that all of his apple devices are tied to the deleted account and won’t work anymore
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Marg bar “the cloud”, marg bar vendor lock-in, and marg bar Amrika.
pomum delenda est
Ceterum (autem) censeo Pomum esse delendam.
for the savings from not buying an iphone for ine iteration of their development cycle (where they remove features and call it streamlining), one could self host their own redundant media storage and probably buy a much-better-than-iphone digital camera.
it is insane to me how expensive these devices are compared to actual cool shit that isn’t made for nana to easily get scam emails and robocalls.
Yea, like how much does a NAS cost? Can’t be that much
i set up a wildly op little NUC with a 24T DAS in RAID for like $900, all in, but just a straight NAS of similar volume could probably be done for like $400 or less, i bet?
my little rig is like a project and appliance box for seedbox/media services and like future weird home automation b.s., thin clients and other shit TBD. its my speculation that, rather than several true full computers, a less expensive and more resilient system will have a single home-appliance server and then scattered screens and thin/zero clients for shit like browsing/email, media/game streaming, and ebook reading.
or at least, that’s what im going to build out for, I think.
i am defining resilience as usefulness even if the internet link goes down. like can i still watch movies, read ebooks, fuck with the internal climate control / read external and high tunnel thermostats & weather data log, etc etc if somebody gets drunk and slices the neighborhood fiber cable or i forget to pay my bill or like Balkanization Cool Zone shit lol.
the amount of cool/fun home tech that becomes pointless without an active internet link annoys and concerns me.
If your goals are:
- reliable photo hosting 2.relatively simple setup and maintenance
- affordability
You could easily get away with something like:
Item Price RaspberryPi 4B 4GB (Case/heatsink dependant on luck) 40-60 500GB SSD x2 (Storage && Redundancy) 100/ea 128GB SSD x1 (OS) 50/ea Powered USB 3.0 dock (Pi4 struggles with more than 5W pulled over USB) 25 Hetzner offsite backup (advanced!) 5/mo per TB *NB: prices are estimates in US$ and GB£ and based on my last time getting stuff like this. * It’ll be enough for Immich (albeit maybe a tag sluggish) and 500GB is way more than most mobile cloud services offer. Once set up they’re pretty low maintenance too, bar the rare OS update or software hitch.
You can even get a decent NAS with redundancy for a similar price, but slightly larger and power hungry (though my chunkier system with 6 drives doesnt cost more than £1/day to run i dont think)
I ran Plex and Nextcloud, two pretty intensive services, from my 4B for years and only moved to a dedicated system last year to allow for 5+ streams concurrently (I share my Jellyfin with family n friends 🫶)
I couldn’t tell you what I’ve put into my server because I haven’t kept track. But you can do it really cheap, I just went more robust than necessary, built a rack, separate firewall, more storage than I need for the future while I could afford it. Buy used, or recycle your own old hardware. Computer recycling places are great for this.
$100-$200 for a server with a SAS backplane, then $5-10/tb for storage using used SAS HDDs, plus $15?/month for power if you need 24/7 uptime
Imagine this happening to someone with apple iEyes vision implants to correct their eye disease.
That new Black Mirror episode reminds me of this.
We don’t care, we don’t have to. We’re the (i)phone company.
You trusted your entire “core digital identity” to a company without doing any backups…
Scolding victims of capitalist greed sucks
Scolding people who doesn’t do backups. Even hosting all locally if you don’t want to lose 20 years of files you do backups.
Based on the article, it looks like the issue is more that they’ve bricked tens of thousands of dollars worth of physical devices that he owns and that since he’s a professional developer for Apple, they’ve kneecapped his income. He has the data mostly backed up.
dont even need to host locally, pulling the files and storing them on hard drives/CD-ROMs to shove in your cupboard is something. Though I gotta get better at educating folks on that front without sounding like a maniac
My bad, in the article he says that he has some backups
It’s mind boggling that big tech companies can lock you out of your accounts without giving you a reason, recourse or appeal process. It should be illegal.
