thesohoriots @ thesohoriots @lemmy.world

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It’s kind of a joke, but ask about how they arrange their sock drawer.

Yeah, about that: I have a horror story.

Tl;dr Apple Store repair techs are crap, right to repair all the way.

I had an iPhone XS that was behaving weird. It was about 84% on the battery scale, which we all know is bullshit. I did all the usual stuff you can do before bringing it in (soft reset, hard reset, various settings, deleting apps, wiping and starting over, etc.). I was hoping their diagnostics would say something but would just as well get a new battery for a fee. They said it was perfectly fine, so they took it back to do a regular non-warranty swap. They said maybe an hour.

One hour later, “come back in 15 minutes.”

30 minutes later, “we’re still working on it.”

30 minutes later still, someone comes out and tells me that while they did replace the battery, they broke two screens trying to get it back on, and for liability reasons, couldn’t try again. They’d send me a refurbished phone. But they needed my fucking phone number so Apple support could call and set it up. This was said dead-faced, broken phone still in the employee’s hand.

They also needed a $1,000 hold on my card for a then-6 year old refurbished phone to be shipped to guarantee a return, and it would be 2-3 days.

Don’t get it done at the Apple Store unless you can afford the risk. Go support your local repair person who isn’t a fucking klutz.

The discovery shocked TSA staff

Presumably because they had a supervisor come over to hold up the silhouette cards from training and match the shapes.

It’s nothing. David Foster Wallace wrote in his novel taking place in the IRS: “Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it’s interesting.”

Super Star theme starts playing

It makes me wonder if Coke is desperately inventing some kind of chemical stabilizer that’ll usher in a whole new health problem.

Second Vinegar. It’s an awesome little add-on.

The bottom line as always: “Money, dear boy.”

The ol’ legal system vs the justice system. We only got one that’s working as intended.

“I love the taste of glowie boot and will fellate some leather to completion when you come knocking, but first, crimes”

I miss Ted Sheckler and his many emporiums.

I was peripheral to it as a Ron and Fez fan. Good lord that place was awful. Rest in piss.

In the southeastern US, we have plenty of fatback in stores, among other odds and ends. The employees laughed when I had to ask what it was.

That’s French toast erasure.

If that happens and the factory layoffs come, those nets are gonna be full

Can confirm, had a friend who listened to police scanners for a major news station. One time a cop goofed and said the victim’s name (a minor) over the radio, and my friend was thrilled because they had a name to release the instant it was allowed. Less of a friend after I saw their level of glee.

The Behavioral Theory of the Firm gives me the ick.

Kevin Spacey’s middle name is Spacey.

And that’s a rock fact.

New Testament really sold out.

Quick, everyone jump over to one of the other massive data-harvesting short-form content apps with ties to the US government. You like freedom and Hummers parked inside the mall, right youths?