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Hello friends, I didn't e-die

Day 6,089, 20:10 • Published in USA USA

• by Bob Boudahili

So, if you use your iPhone as your recovery device and it and your laptop get stolen at the same time what do you do?

I was stuck in the mid-west USA for a bit, visiting family longer than expected two Methopotamians busted my car window and stole my backpack and iPhone while I went into a gas station to answer the call of nature and buy a drink.

Get the window but two days later my transmission fails. I had already ordered a replacement phone to meet me at home in the deep south.

Now, I have my work phone, so I can relay that I'm not dead to people that I have in my business and some personal contacts, but I don't put my fun stuff on my work phone: no discord, no telegram, google chrome is work profile, no personal Gmail, I've got no f$%^ing passwords.

iPhone that was stolen is the recovery/two-factor device 10 days and the car is good to go, works great, nice drive home, get home in time to do laundry and pack for a work trip.

"New" phone apparently got over heated in transport; it's swollen up like a tick. Much anger, more phone calls. New "new" phone ordered but will not arrive until after I depart for my work trip that dovetails into a personal trip.

I was planning on laying low in the game in July due to travel, but not this low. I got home late last night, found an old iPhone 8 that barely charged and restored to my new "new" 13 and I should be back on everything.

So how was y'all's July?

There may have been some way to jump through my own a$$hole to get back on sooner, but it didn't occur to me other than I have added my work email as a recovery account as well. I never added it after taking my last job's email address out. Being unemployed 6 months in 2020, I guess I forgot.

I probably could have bought a phone out of pocket but the fucked up one made me madder, and I wasn't going to on principal, especially after dropping $3600 on a transmission.

So, the moral of the story, fancy passwords and their vaults be damned, I am going back to a post-it note in a poor hiding place.

Comments

Bob Boudahili Day 6,089, 20:29

First

shefutzu Day 6,089, 20:50

😵😵😵
Welcome back Bob!!!

PlasticAlley Day 6,089, 21:22

Good luck from now on

o7

Turnbeutel Day 6,090, 00:05

At first: A strong welcome Back!

At secon😛 God Bob. Sht. Thanks for sharing the things around. And god, I feel with you. I know this a little bureacracy bs by getting things back especially psswords and so on, is driving nutz as hell.
The sad thing at the end of the day, the drug addicted idiots would sell the things for some dollars just to get the next shot.
And you had costs of thousands of dollar. Sometime the world is just not fair.
I wish you all the best.
You're still taking this humorous which is really cool.

o7

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 05:25

Very little humor at the time. Tears of frustration as my OBD II reader spit out the code that said the torque converter was likely bad on the car.

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 05:26

I got mad, got drunk, and then got over it. It helped that my pre-planned work trip and personal trip in the aftermath of all this went well.

Alegretto Day 6,090, 01:10

Funny. I've never had that happen to me, but it's a good lesson to learn.

Good thing you kept your cool. It would have been a big challenge for me.

Mister Y Day 6,090, 02:38

It's a mess, but it's nice you are back, at least.

Leroy Combs Day 6,090, 03:43

Glade your back.

George Barker Day 6,090, 04:21

🐶 .

Iamnameless Day 6,090, 04:36

What a shitshow! Glad you made it through.

Try what I do, I just use the same PW (admin123) for everything. 😉 Never fails!

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 05:27

I'm thinking, 1-2-3-4-5. I think I saw that in a movie once.

Super Nova Day 6,090, 06:35

You can do what the military did when they were required to have a launch code for Minuteman missiles

They set it to 00000000

And left it at that for 20 years

Turnbeutel Day 6,090, 06:44

sounds totally reasonable for me.

Franklin Stone Day 6,090, 05:57

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 14:08

Gabrielz_Horn Day 6,090, 08:05

You need lastpass.

Herr Vootsman Day 6,090, 09:54

Glad you're okay.

I usually use Password123! - it's very hard to guess.

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 14:08

I like that, the other one sounds like what an idiot would have on his luggage lock.

Gabrielz_Horn Day 6,091, 08:54

Space BALLS... lol

TheNorm Day 6,090, 10:45

ouch ouch ouch.. Apple wouldnt give you credit or an option to just get it replaced at an iPhone / Apple store? No iCloud info backup either?!?

ps: A lil notebook in your drawer is probably the safest place to store your PW's, unless you live with some of those Methadonians 😛 .. More people can easily access your 'virtual' home vs your Real one..

and I hope your luck improves! and Welcome back! oh wait, u found ur erep pw, there goes that luck,.. 😛

Jokes aside, good to see you Bob .. 🙂

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 14:07

I live in a retail dead spot in my state. We apparently can't have nice things. The nearest Apple store is about 1.5 hours away. I asked them to expedite the replacement for the replacement and they wouldn't. They initially tried to pin the new dead phone on me since it sat in a box for a few days waiting on me to get home so I considered it a victory to not have to come out of pocket.

TheNorm Day 6,090, 20:06

lol, I hear that.. I did wonder about it sitting, but wtf, u cant leave ur iphone in your car or it will melt? haha.. Like, how many iphones sit in hot trucks all day and night, and in unconditioned warehouses, etc,.. 😃

King Harambe X Day 6,090, 11:56

Hi Bob.

Bob Boudahili Day 6,090, 14:07

Iamthedanger Day 6,090, 16:06

fucktheapple
fuckthegmail
fucktheoutlook
fucktheerep
fuckthediscord
.
.
.

these are the passwords that i have 😃

Iamthedanger Day 6,090, 16:06

and welcome back 🙂

shiloh13 Day 6,090, 18:20

Well welcome back and what a fking shit show,wow.
And yeah the Methopotamians are quite the problem in my neck of the woods as well. In theory one “could” set up decoys and lure them into the kill zone. But that might be frowned upon by the authorities.Of course different states, different laws, so your MMV.

Good to have you back.