Linking to this article that has been making the rounds this morning:

"20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple"

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

I really feel for this guy. This was me 10 years ago: having my entire digital life wrapped up around #Apple's feckless and capricious "tender mercies." I wasn't an author or dev or anything, and I never encountered anything quite that disastrous, but it could have happened at any time.

The process of removing Apple's many tendrils from my digital life was long and somewhat painful, although accelerated by 1) Apple abandoning my MacBook after only four years of OS updates, 2) Apple abandoning my mom's iMac after 7 years (not as egregious), 3) accidentally spilling tea on my beloved 2014 MBA in 2019,and 4) not being able to afford to replace all that hardware 😄, 5) and buying an old #Thinkpad in 2019 ("just for writing!") that became my gateway drug to using Linux and other FOSS OSes full-time. :)

P.S., Maybe don't link to his blog post if your toot contains 0% compassion for the guy. People aren't object lessons, they're people.