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I got the first of the Pfizer injection, and to lighten the whole world’s opinion or reaction to which jab is better than the other, here’s something from my home town of Melbourne

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPiG6Efhwdj/?utm_medium=copy_link.

And

https://www.instagram.com/p/CP5Mx5HB8hf/

So, as I’m sure that you’ve read about, it’s time again for the Apple WWDC 2021.

I’ve been waiting to buy a new MacBook Pro, to replace my late 2010 MacBook Pro, that’s well done a bang-up job.

I’ve been waiting until the second generation of Macs running the M1 (M2 now I guess) chipset so that most of the bugs are ironed out, but nooooooo, not a bloody peep out of Apple regarding new MacBook Pro’s O_o.

So way to go Apple. Way to let down the people like me who just want another fucking laptop that’s now 11 years old.

Hmm. It seems that all is relatively quiet on the Apple front, with regards to general fuckups and omissions by Apple.

I’m the first to jump on Apple when they have fucked up, especially when it appears that it has been caused by something falling through the cracks.

I’m also one of the first to congratulate Apple when they do things right, so well done Apple!

This has absolutely nothing to do with my IT related postings, but this morning I had a blood test.

“What’s the big deal?” I hear you ask. Well dear readers (if there are any – lol), I’ll tell you.

First of all, its nothing untoward or dodgy, it was just my Doctor wanting to know how healthy I am, and thanks to advances with modern medicine, I avoided the dreaded finger up my arse to check on my prostrate gland.

My fear of any needles stems from my childhood doctor, who whilst was excellent in his career, he admitted himself that he was terrible at giving injections. Fast forward to today, and I’m petrified of needles or blood tests.

“But, you’ve got two tattoos!” I hear you say. Well, that’s true, but I’m not afraid of the tattoo needle (for some reason).

Anyhow, it’s done. 1st Lieutenant Gilchrist maned up, gritted my teeth and got this sorted.

I’ll ask my doctor for a lolly pop when I see him now – lol.

Well, I’ve been advised by the Corona virus (Covid-19) department of the Victorian Government, that unless I have a specific health requirement (I do, but I’m not going into that), that being under 50, the only available vaccine is the AstraZeneca shot.

Fuck that.

I will not be another statistic on the map to herd immunization, especially seeing that:

• AstraZeneca is known to cause blood clots

And

• Those who develop blood clots have a 25% chance of death.

Meanwhile our useless Prime Minister, gets the Pfizer jab.

Way to go Liberal Party you useless fucking waste of oxygen.

So with just 5 days until the TIO (that’s Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman) was to hand down its verdict, Telstra pulled their finger out and did what they had to do to get my phone working as it should.

In summary, am I happy that it’s been fixed? Yes.

Am I happy that it’s taken so long to get fixed? Absolutely not!

Will I stay with Telstra once I’ve paid off my phone? Well, that’s up to Telstra isn’t it?

I can’t say this loudly enough, nor can I say it often enough.

Don’t, please don’t ever fucking upgrade a mobile phone with Telstra!

For those who don’t know, here’s my original attempt to upgrade my Iphone, here’s the sad story.

Fucking Telstra

And this sad story continues here:

Fucking Telstra and Seibel O_o

After nearly a fucking week with nothing from these useless pricks, I’ve been promised that Telstra are going to fix this – they haven’t despite time and again going through this fucked up tale again ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

Today I called the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and went through to Christine one last time out of frustration to get Telstra to:

• Fix my service so that it fucking works!
• Respond to my complaint to Telstra about my service not fucking working despite being told time and again that it will work in 24 hours.
• Compensate me for every fucking time I call Telstra, to chase up why I wasn’t called as promised, and to get a resolution of the above.

Come the 30th of March, I’m certain Telstra will be fucking crucified and taken to the cleaners.

Well it’s day 3 with my kind of fucked up Iphone.

For those who can’t remember my full on nuclear meltdown – here’s a link to my post:

Fucking Telstra

I say that it’s kind of fucked up, because thanks to David at the Telstra shop in Burke Road Camberwell, I have a sort of working eSIM.

It’s sort of working, because:

• I have a 4/5G connection, but I can’t use cellular connections to view web pages or make a call, or send SMS messages to people who don’t have an Iphone.
• I can receive calls and SMS messages from anyone.

I’ve still had fucking zero contact from Telstra regarding my complaint.

Come on Telstra, it’s time to pull your finger out of your arsehole.

Wow, just wow.

I decided to upgrade my Iphone X to an Iphone 12 Pro Max last Friday.

Being the environmentalist that I am, I chose to use an eSIM, rather than waste the plastic on a physical sim card.

The process was accepted, and I thought that I’d get a gold star for doing my part to save the planet by using an eSIM.

Fast forward to yesterday, and my shiny new phone is in my hands. I look for the mail with a QR code (this provides my phone with the details of my account and phone number), but alas it wasn’t there.

So, because Telstra wants to push more and more services online, I used the chat functionality, and I was met with:

• A fucking huge wait to actually talk to a person.
• Apathy.
• A total lack of help.

and finally….

• No resolution in getting my phone connected to the fucking provider’s network.

I’m beyond angry now, I’m fucking LIVID.

We shall see if my complaint to Telstra, as well as this post get any results.

For those who can choose what browser to use, I’d definitely suggest getting the latest version of firefox.

This from the website Macrumors:

Mozilla today released Firefox 86 for Macs, Windows, and Linux machines, introducing a new feature called Total Cookie Protection.

Total Cookie Protection is designed to stop cookies from tracking users across the web by introducing a “separate cookie jar for every website.”

Total Cookie Protection is available as part of Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection functionality, and can be enabled when the browser is set to ETP Strict Mode. Mozilla says that Firefox now offers “strong, comprehensive protection” to combat cookie tracking.
The update also adds support for multiple picture-in-picture views, plus keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind.

Don’t be a total wanker. Read up about alternatives to the various platform’s default browsers.

For Windows that’s Internet Explorer (Exploiter, Exploader, Explosion?)

For Mac’s that’s Safari.