• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    I lost my phone the other day. That sucks. But what really sucked is when I went and got a new Sim, chucked it in one of my old shitty phones, and then activated the new Sim with my company as a replacement, those motheruckers took 4 whole days to activate my new Sim.

    It said it would only take 1-3 hours.

    I had days wasted on the line with them, I knew they didn’t transfer it correctly and they just kept saying “please wait longer”. Like. What the fuck is waiting more going to do.

    What was worse, is without access to SMS, I couldn’t port out to a new provider, couldn’t login to Facebook as backup messaging, couldn’t transfer money from my bank. Every step of the way I was fucked by 2fa and my douchebag phone company could not give a single shit.

    Fuck you amaysim.

    As soon as it came good I ported away from them within the hour. I really opened up my eyes to how much we rely on SMS communication these days for auth.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I bought my mom a new laptop a while back. One day it stopped working and wouldn’t turn on. She stopped using it for about a year. Then it started to work again. She’s still using that laptop to this day.

    If I had to guess, the cmos battery died and somehow that fixed the issue. How that fixed the issue I’m still not sure.

    • bufordt@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t matter. Using the stereotypical white Jesus image allowed the point to be conveyed without having to explicitly spell out that it was Jesus. And looky, you understood it just fine.

      The odds are Jesus wasn’t white, but he wasn’t black, Asian, or middle Eastern either. He most likely didn’t exist, and having some empty space saying reboot your computers isn’t as funny.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Historians agree that someone named Jesus of Nazareth lived at that time, and was doing some preaching, and started a new religion. What they don’t agree on is all the mythical stuff, miracles and the like. It’s very likely, given the demographics at the time, that he was middle-eastern or what we would consider “Persian” for about 1000 years.

        • bufordt@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          Many historians agree that some time after 0CE people wrote about someone named Jesus, but almost solely written by people who didn’t directly encounter Jesus, so basically hearsay from 2000 years ago.

          Other historians don’t think Jesus existed at all.

          Most of the “evidence” is the Bible, which doesn’t really count. Other evidence is from 50-200 years after his supposed existence.