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Can you hear me now? NO! Cause Verizon tech support is awful!
How did I get PUK-locked?I need to get an SMS to log into the web form…If I ask for a call, I don’t get a ring.But hey, I don’t even use your voicemail service, so I can get the transcription!...
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90 minutes, then Verizon’s @VZWSupport muted me, No, Still no service!
“Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” -Bob NewhartI’m on my second Nexus 6P, the first having had first the battery issue, and then the bootloop problem.Saturday night I found my phone was...
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Sprint Hotspot followup (still not resolved)
I mentioned earlier how absolutely mind boggling slow Sprint customer support was being. I was simply trying to get tethering I’m paying for to work on a brand new unrooted phone.I also mentioned I...
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It’s Sprint… again…
I got a text message that filled me with dread yesterday. Once again a Sprint rep had changed my plan on a number without getting an OK with me.Previously on Paul’s dealing with Sprint late 2017 they’d...
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Final Fantasy Has Jumped the Shark
Maybe it already happened. Perhaps I’m just late to the Final Fantasy shark jumping party. I imagine the collective “duh” expressed by everyone that reads this headline as they silently chide the...
View ArticleTales from the IT desk – Level 3, CenturyLink, Lumen fails
Thought I’d document for people what IT folk go through. Got a full answer, but no satisfaction, while writing this so there’s a near complete story here. TL;DR – 13+ months of a project torpedoed....
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I got a PayPal Invoice scam that actually tried
I get scams on a fairly regular basis, but today I got one that looked like actual effort had been put into it because the message actually did originate from PayPal. Here’s how it worked – scammer...
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