you don't hear these horror stories often, but often enough to reinforce my conviction to never ever ever fucking ever buy a single apple product
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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Also if you don't have your ~~date~~ data under your control, you are at the mercy of some company.
I have an apple iphone but I back my photos up with Immich and passwords with firefox, Spotify instead of Apple music, Telegram, etc and I'm essentially isolated from the Apple ecosystem, if they lock me out of my account I lose pretty much nothing except the value of the phone
The begging is sad too. "I'm special! I'm on your side! I'm one of youuuuuu!"
The beast eats friend and foe alike.
it's just so pathetic :\
It's almost like having a single point of failure, putting your entire digital life and livelihood into the hands of a single uncaring corporation, is a bad idea or something. wild!
Lest Android users (like myself) think we're immune, Google has been known to nuke accounts too, leading to a similar outcome.
I've been trying my best to get out of a "one account for all" mentality - photo backups are probably the #1 problem for me right now.
I've got the local storage, but I'm not sure about exposing immich to the Internet for photos access when I'm not at home.
If you're not above paying I've seen good things about Ente. They have a free account with a pretty small limit to try it out.
Privacy should be guarded like gold, the royal jewels, priceless works of art, and democracy. Never give permission to others for control of it.
Out of sight, out of mind for most people.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket.
Lol. Digital life.
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At this point doesn't he have grounds to sue? I know there was something in the license agreement, but that amount of money might be worth a round checking it out.