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Oh no, I'm talking outright wrecked — you can see damaged pins upon observation.

(To be clear to the downvoters, I see this in my job where I repair consumer tech. I've clarified in my original post since some people seem to think I'm arguing exclusively in favour of lightning, or maybe think I've seen this on my own devices?)

I clean out densely compacted pocket lint frequently out of customer devices. One needle nose tweezer end for extracting the bulk, then isopropyl on a thin lint free cloth pushed in with a small piece of plastic to determine what's left inside that isn't easily visible. Typically makes the port look as good as new.

The amount of USB type ports I've seen where the 'tongue' has been absolutely mangled is mind boggling — an issue that Lightning completely bypassed.

For example, I'm repairing some kids PS5 and both back USB ports have had their pins twisted and the plastic snapped off. The HDMI port pins are lifting from the mainboard and the front of the unit is scratched to high hell. I see some of the worst treated tech at my job, and those plastic bits get damaged a lot. While Apple needed to move to USB-C six years ago with the iPhone X, I will respect Lightning for this one thing.

Given that OP posted a Mac screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work just as well for the files themselves.

The article does it right: [email protected] and other similar things (e.g: [email protected]) will throw an error the first time you put in a password and it'll proceed to create an offline account.

The people that go through the steps like commands and disabling internet are making too much work for themselves.

Hilariously, I find the Pi-hole feature "disable for 5 seconds" often works because it'll be down for long enough to load the page but not the ads.