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Wednesday 01/04/2023

By January 4, 2023Food for thought

When I was at Walmart Monday my iPhone_7_plus fell out of the cart I was using
in the Parking lot. It fell face down and I didn’t notice that it fell
and then I stepped on it. I picked it up, looked at it real fast and it looked fine so
I was like “cool it didn’t break” later that day I saw that it was in fact damaged on the bottom near the fingerprint scanner
Despite the damage, everything worked perfectly. I did notice a problem with the camera it would take forever
for it to be ready to take a picture. I didn’t even try the selfie camera, I didn’t need it until today. The Uber application
kicked me offline after 3 or 4 declined trips and when I tried to go back online the Uber app couldn’t launch the selfie camera to
take a photo of myself. So after an hour on the phone with Uber support, I just said “fuck it” and drove to Ubreakifix. The good news is that the camera is part of the screen and they can completely fix it right now. The bad news is that it is going to cost me
$266.43 with sales tax to fix. If I did not have a credit card to pay for this to be fixed, I would be so screwed. There is nothing that Uber can
do for multiple days to resolve this problem. I would be better off getting another phone just to run the Uber app. I thought about doing that, and I just didn’t really want to have to deal with having 2 phones. So I am out in the parking lot of Ubreakifix now waiting on my
phone to be repaired. I am on my laptop connected to the hotspot I have in my car. I gave them my Gmail address and asked them to please email me at that address as soon as it is ready, they said that was “no problem.” first time I have heard those words all day.

I went in there after 1.5 hours and they told me that the screen for my phone was defective, the only screen that they had for my phone was white unless I wanted them to order a new one and I would have to wait 3-5 business days. I was like “fine use the white one but how much longer?” He said 10 more minutes, then after 30 minutes he came out and apologized he was going to have to return my phone not repaired. He told me something about $114.00 .

I found a work around I think. I was able to use an old IPad Pro that I use to fly my drones with to Authenticate with Uber. As soon as I did that, I am now able to go online via my iPhone. Which is cool, I spent no money and I am able now to earn with Uber now as long as I have that iPad with me.