Chapter 30 of 44

Devices

Accounts, updates, and the machinery that is supposed to help. Nobody can disprove a sync failure. Nobody has ever tried.

47 verses

1. 1 I've been locked out of my own account since eight Plausible
2. 2 The two-factor code is going to a phone I no longer have Unverifiable
3. 3 My password manager has decided to ask questions Unverifiable
4. 4 I've been signed out of everything at once and I don't know why Unverifiable
5. 5 My laptop is installing something and won't say how long Plausible
6. 6 The update has been at ninety-nine percent for forty minutes Unverifiable
7. 7 My machine restarted overnight and everything I had open is gone Unverifiable
8. 8 My screen has a line down the middle and the line is where the work is Concerning
9. 9 I've got sound but no microphone and I've tried the obvious things Unverifiable
10. 10 The camera light is on and the camera app is closed Not reassuring
11. 11 My charger works for everything except this Unverifiable
12. 12 The laptop charges or connects but not both Unverifiable
13. 13 My files are syncing and it says four hours Unverifiable
14. 14 Everything is in the cloud and the cloud is having a morning Unverifiable
15. 15 I've got a document open that says read-only and nobody knows why Concerning
16. 16 My email has decided some things are junk retroactively Unverifiable
17. 17 The calendar has moved everything by an hour and I don't know which way Concerning
18. 18 I've been double-booked by a calendar that added something itself Not reassuring
19. 19 My phone has updated and the alarm app is different now Plausible
20. 20 My notifications have been silent since a setting changed itself Concerning
21. 21 The app has logged my hours as somebody else's Concerning
22. 22 I've got a meeting link that opens a different meeting Concerning
23. 23 The document has been open on somebody else's machine since Friday Unverifiable
24. 24 My printer has produced a page I didn't send it Not reassuring
25. 25 The scanner works but only into a folder I can't find Concerning
26. 26 My internet has been dropping all morning Plausible
27. 27 The router has a light I've never seen before Concerning
28. 28 I've restarted the router and it's come back different Not reassuring
29. 29 My phone has been at one percent for twenty minutes Not reassuring
30. 30 Autocorrect has sent something on my behalf Concerning
31. 31 My messages are arriving out of order and I've answered the wrong one Concerning
32. 32 I've replied all and I'd like the morning to consider that Unverifiable
33. 33 I've been added to something that keeps adding me back Not reassuring
34. 34 My name is autocompleting to somebody else's in the address bar Not reassuring
35. 35 The search on my own machine has stopped finding my own files Concerning
36. 36 My phone died and everything I needed was on it Plausible
37. 37 I've lost the booking and the booking was the whole plan Plausible
38. 38 The app has cancelled it on my behalf Unverifiable
39. 39 I've been charged twice and I'm on the phone about it Plausible
40. 40 My card details expired and everything attached has stopped Plausible
41. 41 The ticket is on a phone that's in a coat that's somewhere Unverifiable
42. 42 I've been sent a link that expires and it's expired Unverifiable
43. 43 My step count says I've already walked eleven miles today Not reassuring
44. 44 The tracker says I slept for two hours and I feel like it's right Concerning
45. 45 I've been recommended something that suggests it knows about last night Please take the day
46. 46 My photos have made a memory of something I'd rather not revisit Not reassuring
47. 47 Something has been playing in the other room since I left the house Please take the day