Casey Liss

Which, by the way, I had to transcribe manually because when your phone is in this terrible state, you just use a little I and a circle on the upper right to get the IME ID, but you can't copy and paste it because your phone isn't even set up, so I'm transcribing that carefully. Anyway... I do all this information, and you know what? It takes like three seconds when someone at Verizon is doing it.

Which, by the way, I had to transcribe manually because when your phone is in this terrible state, you just use a little I and a circle on the upper right to get the IME ID, but you can't copy and paste it because your phone isn't even set up, so I'm transcribing that carefully. Anyway... I do all this information, and you know what? It takes like three seconds when someone at Verizon is doing it.

They're like, okay, this is your thing. Confirm this. Do that. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And all of a sudden, my phone screen says, instead of saying activate and wait a few minutes, it says, oh, transferring cellular service, whatever, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, and it's done.

They're like, okay, this is your thing. Confirm this. Do that. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And all of a sudden, my phone screen says, instead of saying activate and wait a few minutes, it says, oh, transferring cellular service, whatever, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, and it's done.

And I was like, okay, well, that was, you know, maybe like a half an hour on web chat in the grand scheme of things. You know, it's better to not have to contact them, but it wasn't that bad. The only weird wrinkle was they're like, okay, now call like pound or, you know, 832 or whatever. There's something they want you to do to confirm that everything worked. What year is this?

And I was like, okay, well, that was, you know, maybe like a half an hour on web chat in the grand scheme of things. You know, it's better to not have to contact them, but it wasn't that bad. The only weird wrinkle was they're like, okay, now call like pound or, you know, 832 or whatever. There's something they want you to do to confirm that everything worked. What year is this?

I'm pretty sure it worked.

I'm pretty sure it worked.

because the phone is saying that it did all the things and it's you know whatever but they're like okay well and i said to him i i can't dial anything right now because it's doing the phone to phone transfer i won't have access to the dialer until it finishes the phone to phone transfer and he says that's okay i'll wait i'm like it's going to take hours it's like no problem i'll just wait

because the phone is saying that it did all the things and it's you know whatever but they're like okay well and i said to him i i can't dial anything right now because it's doing the phone to phone transfer i won't have access to the dialer until it finishes the phone to phone transfer and he says that's okay i'll wait i'm like it's going to take hours it's like no problem i'll just wait

And then he tried to sell me insurance and I said, no, thanks. And then I walked away from the computer and I came back, you know, an hour or two later and the transfer had finished and the web page had timed out. So successful customer service interaction. But chalk this up to another year where I had to contact Verizon.

And then he tried to sell me insurance and I said, no, thanks. And then I walked away from the computer and I came back, you know, an hour or two later and the transfer had finished and the web page had timed out. So successful customer service interaction. But chalk this up to another year where I had to contact Verizon.

At least I didn't have to go on the phone with them, but I had to contact Verizon to get my phone set up. After I had gotten over that hurdle, the phone to phone transfer worked the way it normally does, where it forgets the test flight exists and rearranges all my icons until I go back to test flight and figure out where they all have to belong and rearrange them manually.

At least I didn't have to go on the phone with them, but I had to contact Verizon to get my phone set up. After I had gotten over that hurdle, the phone to phone transfer worked the way it normally does, where it forgets the test flight exists and rearranges all my icons until I go back to test flight and figure out where they all have to belong and rearrange them manually.

Yes, I tried to use iPhone mirroring to rearrange them with the mouse. It's probably a little bit better, but boy, you can really see the insanity of that system when you have pixel precise control with a mouse cursor because it's such a cruel game. It's like, oh, I went over the one pixel boundary and I switched to the other screen.

Yes, I tried to use iPhone mirroring to rearrange them with the mouse. It's probably a little bit better, but boy, you can really see the insanity of that system when you have pixel precise control with a mouse cursor because it's such a cruel game. It's like, oh, I went over the one pixel boundary and I switched to the other screen.

It's just your meat fingers aren't in the way, but now I know precisely how insane the activation readings are and precisely how broken it is where you will drag an icon and other icons will skitter out of the way and leave an empty spot for your icon and you will release and Springboard will say, nope.

It's just your meat fingers aren't in the way, but now I know precisely how insane the activation readings are and precisely how broken it is where you will drag an icon and other icons will skitter out of the way and leave an empty spot for your icon and you will release and Springboard will say, nope.

and it'll just close that spot back up and you'll do it 50 times drag an icon put it right where you want it to go it's nothing else is there it is dead center on the spot release disappears like it never existed the system's just broken so the mouse helps a little bit but anyway uh setup worked fine i i managed to get through it all uh and there you go marco how's your setup process mine was perfectly fine

and it'll just close that spot back up and you'll do it 50 times drag an icon put it right where you want it to go it's nothing else is there it is dead center on the spot release disappears like it never existed the system's just broken so the mouse helps a little bit but anyway uh setup worked fine i i managed to get through it all uh and there you go marco how's your setup process mine was perfectly fine