happy birthday!

rather try to gaslight and beat down on their consumers that it makes me want to vomit from disgust. It pisses me off that not only the "Geniuses" behind the "Genius" Bar spoke down to me, but also the fucking LEADERSHIP at that store, location of which rhymes with Urea.

#Apple fix your shit.

I don't understand how a trillion-dollar company can be so short-sighted that when presented with the fact that my phone is working again, they can't accept that the fix was literally what I had said and what UBREAKIFIX confirmed.

#Apple is so anti-consumer and anti-fixing that they would

I give the caller, "leader of #Apple store" a piece of my mind, whose name rhymes with "dreg".

> "IDC you tell me it's not a battery issue or how it's literally impossible to tell that that was indeed the issue. My phone is fucking working again and y'all lost a fuckton of goodwill today."

> tell them I went to a third-party store to fix phone
> confirm that it's a battery issue
> leadership asks me, "well how do you know that's what the issue was?"
> mfw the audacity to ask how i am sure it's a battery issue when my phone is fucking working again by replacing the battery

> TFW Apple store leadership calls me
> give them a piece of my mind

I don't care if it's policy to diagnose the issue using official Apple software to come up with a reason why things are failing. You. Don't. Have. To. Be. A. Prick.

#Apple sends me a survey, "How was your experience with Piss?" I rate the guy extremely poorly because he mansplained what a processor, battery, etc. to me, an engineer who works with computing devices for a living and refused to listen to me tell him that it's a battery/charging issue.

their store because IT SOUNDS SUS OK. But these guys, they were so easy to work with.

> come in, tell them it's a battery issue
> drop off phone
> leave for a few hours
> come back to pick up phone
> itsfuckingalive.exe
> pay $110 for the service

All within 2.5 hours.

I'm fucking flabbergasted.

Brother-in-Christ I know what the fucking problem is and I need you to just replace the battery. This shouldn't cost more than the trade-in value for this iPhone.

I end up going to the next option I have on my list - UBREAKIFIX, which is a hilarious name and one that has kept me from entering

When I finally got to my #Apple Genius Bar appointment, this guy whose name rhymes with piss tells me that "it could be that the processor is fried! I think we need to replace 80% of the phone to fix it, costs $500."

He proceeds to mansplain to me and ignore me when I say "it's a battery problem".

to the #AAPL store to get this fixed. I said, okay, let's do this, because at this point, my phone was coming alive for a few minutes then shutting off. This was at 10 AM and it would stop turning on and going to the home screen around 12 PM. Context: I had gotten my battery replaced 2 months ago.

up the data of my iphone, which contains 4 years of my relationship. Obviously, the latter is my fuck-up, but I figured I should try to save this device.

So, I go to the people who originally replaced my battery (Geek Squad) whom told me that they didn't have the parts to fix it, and I had to go

Okay, I wasn't originally going to make a post about this, but I feel that the folks genuinely needs to hear my struggle with #Apple this past weekend.

My phone battery had died over the weekend and I was panicking to get it fixed because 1) that's my connection to the world and 2) I hadn't backed

republicans use their power to do what they’ve always wanted to do - perv on little kids.

metal pole with the words “heavy are the hips that wear the strap”

gonna become ceo of massive popular app then install all the chinese apps on all my devices that contain read access to all my production data. xixipi will be a real homie to me when china takes over the world!

@PerthshireMags’s tweet climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

@GRUGCEL’s tweet: i feel like as a trans ally if your friend is about to name themselves something stupid you gotta step in and tell them it’s stupid

see something, say something

they should have made an nft of it

@princessakano tweet: i’m the fucking corporate raider of programming languages. i’ll learn the shit out of anything and exclusively use bad practices in OSS.

@wearehims tweet: We're thrilled to share a couple of highlights from our Q3 2024 earnings call: ✔ Revenue of $401.6 million, up 77% YoY ✔ Subscribers grew to 2.0 million, up 44% YOY ✔ More than 1M of our subscribers are utilizing a personalized solution on the platform, up 175% YoY

usa: no more gender affirming care!
also usa:

Other recipients include Michael J. Fox and Denzel Washington, U2 frontman Bono, Lionel Messi, and George Soros. Those receiving the award posthumously are former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, former Defense Secretary Ash Carter and former Michigan Gov. George W. Romney.

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

threads post from user iambeatrizbraga talking about her ex who was obsessed with health and productivity, later mentioning that it didn’t work out between them.

there’s nothing wrong with time tracking or any of this tbh, except doing it long-term and making a conscious decision to “optimize” your time with your loved ones.

if i learned anything from doing this, it’s that time with loved ones deserves to not be tracked.

@elonmusk tweet: I am constantly insulted on this platform

🤣

flabbergasted that there was any confusion on what AGI meant. obviously it means autogynephile injections.

HackerNews post asking: I am totally fascinated by programmers who don't use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot So to the devs who don't use these tools, how do you do it? Do you just remember every type and field in a codebase? What does your flow look like? One example is that I cannot live without the language server go-to-definition feature. What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?

are there really so few coders that code without those features? i feel like we’re not the minority

Luigi Mangione Pleads Not Guilty To State Murder, Terrorism Charges In UnitedHealthcare CEO's Death

@unusual_whales tweet: BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang is the beneficiary of a series of tax dodges that will enable him to pass on much of his fortune tax free, according to securities and tax filings reviewed by The New York Times. The savings for his family are on a pace to be roughly $8 billion. It likely ranks among the largest tax dodges in the United States.

when we say “eat the rich”, this is who we mean. not billy bob who stashes a few thousand under his mattress. take him down.

@unusual_whales tweet: BREAKING: Big Lots will begin “going out of business” sales at all of its 963 locations, after failing to find a buyer after Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

corporate: it’s fucking over for you clowns. go home and don’t ever come back.

translation: we massively underpay our performance crew and are more terrified of murderous clowns than shutting the whole thing down.