Casey Liss

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

Yeah, I don't know what it is. I mean, I'm assuming there's some carrier servers that are involved in this process. And like the worst part is there's no way to say, forget about that. I'll deal with it later. Just do the rest of the setup. Like you are stuck on that screen. This is activating. This may take a few minutes.

Yeah, I don't know what it is. I mean, I'm assuming there's some carrier servers that are involved in this process. And like the worst part is there's no way to say, forget about that. I'll deal with it later. Just do the rest of the setup. Like you are stuck on that screen. This is activating. This may take a few minutes.

And as far as I know, there's no way to get past it, which argues for Casey's thing of like, hey, why don't you just buy it on lock? Because then at least you can do. the phone, like the data transfer part of the setup. And then when you have a functioning working phone that just doesn't have a phone number, then try to do the eSIM like transfer or whatever, however you initiate that process.

And as far as I know, there's no way to get past it, which argues for Casey's thing of like, hey, why don't you just buy it on lock? Because then at least you can do. the phone, like the data transfer part of the setup. And then when you have a functioning working phone that just doesn't have a phone number, then try to do the eSIM like transfer or whatever, however you initiate that process.

And you gotta Google to be like, wait, do I unpair

And you gotta Google to be like, wait, do I unpair

from the old one first or doing that like this this whole i've done it successfully so my wife's watched several times and every time i do it i have no confidence that i'm going to be successful i have no recollection of how i did it last time or why it worked and i just like cross my fingers and just dive in and and by the way everything on the watch takes forever i guess it's probably getting better as the watches get faster it doesn't take so long to do anything

from the old one first or doing that like this this whole i've done it successfully so my wife's watched several times and every time i do it i have no confidence that i'm going to be successful i have no recollection of how i did it last time or why it worked and i just like cross my fingers and just dive in and and by the way everything on the watch takes forever i guess it's probably getting better as the watches get faster it doesn't take so long to do anything

Did you use a cable?

Did you use a cable?

I did use ice packs just in honor of Marco. I used them briefly, but then I got worried about condensation and stopped.