I am rebuilding my MacBook starting at tabula rasa.
I'm currently trying to connect the machine to my iCloud account. I am in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, and I think I've just been eaten by a grue.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Apple used to hold up UI as a religion, now they use it to torture people.
"Enter the password of your other MacBook, you know the one you said goodbye to seven years ago."
"Forgot that one? Pick one of your other devices, and enter *its* password"
<User clicks on a current device, hits continue>
"Enter your old MacBook PW, please"
<User, confused now, clicks on "I don't remember that one">
<Apple pops up a message suggesting they are about to put my iCloud data in the shredder if I don't cough up a password for old Sparky...>
<I'm too traumatized to remember what I did next, but it made sense at the time>
"Choose Device!" <shows NO devices>
...Offers friendly "Forgot everything?" link, which I suspect will take me to the home page of iCloud, so I can open a new account... The "Back" button is dimmed. I hear heavy breathing in the darkness, and a shambolic padding sound on the wet cave floor...
#Apple #BadUX #StillSomeBugsThereBuddy
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