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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:02 JST mcc

   There is something I would like to watch on my wife's Apple TV. If I tap to rent the video, it says "Confirm on Apple Device". However it says the device must be "Nearby", which I interpret as Bluetooth. My wife is not in town and when I checked with her via text she did not get a notification on her iPhone. Is there a way for me to watch the movie?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:01 JST mcc

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     Well, here's the support article explaining how to change payment methods without using an iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201266.

     "Add a payment method online
     You can also add a payment method after signing in to appleid.apple.com."

     Well, that's simple, Right?

     appleid.apple.com does not exist. (2/2)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:01 JST mcc

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     Wait, now I'm somehow getting pages on that site to load and I don't know what changed.

     Thomas 🔭🕹️ repeated this.
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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:01 JST mcc

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     … … … okay. Here's the explanation.

     - Apple's support article links to http :// appleid.apple.com
     - That doesn't exist. There's no server running at port 80 on that server.
     - There IS an https :// appleid.apple.com.
     - The https :// version uses HSTS, so if you've visited https :// appleid.apple.com at least once on the device, following the HTTP link will auto redirect you to HTTPS.
     - But no one at Apple Support has ever noticed this, I guess.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:02 JST mcc

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     Kind of mind boggling Apple's interface seems so disinterested in the idea that a television might be used by more than one person

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:16:02 JST mcc

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     Absolutely fucking astounding

     So, I do have an Apple ID, so I signed my own account into the Apple TV.

     Although I successfully made a digital purchase with this Apple ID five days ago, when I attempted to rent on the Apple TV it said my credit card was expired. It attempted to charge me in USD, so probably it was using a very, *very* old card.

     You cannot change your apple ID payment information on the Apple TV. You have to use an iPhone. What if I don't have an iPhone? (1/2)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:17:49 JST mcc

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     Fortunately, it *did* allow me to register a PayPal account. It still required me to me put in a US address. But it didn't check with PayPal if that USA address was correct. So I just… put in… … a USA address. Not my address. Just… an address. And it accepted it. I may be committing some sort of opsec fail by admitting that I did this.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:17:49 JST mcc

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     I am now able to watch the movie I paid for, but I am too fuming angry to do so right now, due to having to interact with Computers.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:17:49 JST mcc

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     I sincerely hate the Apple TV. I'm not overfond of anything Apple's created in the last… let's say ten years, but the Apple TV is truly a weird shadow realm with all the worst elements of Apple's philosophies but none of the occasional benefits their other devices possess

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 11:17:50 JST mcc

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     After logging in, I was able to set my credit card. Of course, I was also *not* able to set my credit card, because although I got my Apple *Developer* account successfully moved from USA to Canada this past week, apparently my *Apple TV* account, on the same Apple ID, is still USA. So it would not accept my Canadian credit card because it didn't have a valid USA address. Because my address is not in the USA. It is in Canada.