Technological/practical "backward steps" we all just accept now

not ME, no. i buy them where every good American does, the gas station

Hate passwordless logins. I feel like it punishes those of us that are good at keeping and maintaining a password vault. Treats us all like those that just have to recover passwords each time they login.

back in the security wild west when we asked customers for their passwords *over the phone*, one customer paused and said "ok", then proceeded to tell me "L-O-N-G.....D-O-N-G"

Someone in my personal orbit had a story about a guy whose girlfriend was named Daphne. Her best friend was named Susie.

At some point, for some reason, this guy had to reveal his password to IT, Although he hesitated, he eventually had to reveal that his password was DaphOnSusie69.

You buy your chicken tenders at an AMC theater?

― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, January 22, 2024 12:03 PM

not ME, no. i buy them where every good American does, the gas station

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Monday, January 22, 2024 12:19 PM

No, but seriously. Are you pre-ordering chicken tenders from the movie theater through your phone?

*Pre-ordering*...

"No, plains. I'm post-ordering them once they're already in my mouth."

I did once a few weeks ago when I was going to a movie and I hadn't gotten to eat dinner first cos work ran late

it wasn't my worst decision that day, much less that week. but it was up there

xpost lol my dad would have saluted you for that one

Password-less vs passwords is orthogonal to whether you have another factor involved - you can have either with another factor, and you can have either without.

I've been considering switching to effectively password-less for any sites that I don't use regularly - scrub them from the single-point-of-failure that is my password manager, and just hit up the 'forgot password' button when I need to use the site.

Someone in my personal orbit had a story about a guy whose girlfriend was named Daphne. Her best friend was named Susie.

At some point, for some reason, this guy had to reveal his password to IT, Although he hesitated, he eventually had to reveal that his password was DaphOnSusie69.

― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, January 22, 2024 10:35 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My husband had a regular ambulance partner back in his early days as an EMT, and at one point the partner got called into the office and reprimanded because his password to get into the system was "BigTittyCum" lmfao.

For a long time I only used incredibly filthy passwords for the exact reason that it would be a big disincentive to ever reveal them to anyone

Also they're memorable!

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jfc FedEx Office sucks so much. My printer has been busted for a while and I don't use it enough to fix, so I go today to print/scan some docs I need to request a 401k withdrawal. they've recently changed their process, where you used to just scan your card, it'd tell you how much you had racked up in charges, and then you clicked End Session where you were done.

I guess some people complained because there was no way to 'go back' and cancel a few jobs to lower the cost after you'd done them, so now you pre-authorize an amount.

cool! I never know how much it's going to cost, so now I wind up pre-authing more than it cost, and it doesn't get released back to my card for a day or two. but the kicker - if you pre-auth too little, there's no way to just top off the authorization balance mid-job. it simply tells you that you didn't pre-authorize enough, and gives you the option to either go back and redo the job so it falls within your budget, start over at the beginning, or End your Session.

well, silly me, because I was so used to the old way, once the scan job started on the machine, I went and tossed all of the documents I was scanning (since I didn't need a physical copy anymore). so now I had no way to re-scan the doc and I can't get a new copy of the bill because...lol to access it online you have to have the ID number...from the bill.

I give up.

Does anyone know which phones still have a fucking headphone jack?

Samsung Galaxy A71 5G

I used to bemoan the loss of the headphone jack but having lived with wireless headphones for a couple of years now I can't say I miss it anymore. Bluetooth headphones are just so much better in every conceivable respect.

I have tried Bluetooth headphones and it was not for me for a number of reasons. The main use I have for my phone is to listen to/edit music and if I can't port out the audio that's going to be a lot of trouble too.

> Does anyone know which phones still have a fucking headphone jack?

i've been looking myself

https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphone-jack-phones/
https://www.androidcentral.com/best-android-phone-headphone-jack
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-phones-with-a-headphone-jack-Google-Pixel-Samsung-Galaxy-LG-and-more_id124459

annoyingly when going into actual shops to see what these phones are like, the headphone socket is generally hidden behind the locked cage they put on display phones. the samsung galaxy a14 was the one that caught my eye: <£200 with audio jack and sd card slot

(and available at multiple places within walking distance)

I used bluetooth headphones for about a year and while there were pluses it's generally been a massive relief to return to wired ones that I'm not losing several times a day, that I can keep playing constantly without losing power, that aren't competing with everything else that needs charging. getting the wire caught on stuff is a small price to pay

I like the ones that are wired together, so I am not constantly losing one or the fussy little case.

I bought Anker Soundcore bluetooth earpieces, none of the little silicone bud things fit my ears, one fell off into the oven, it still works but jfc I will never use bluetooth earpieces ever again. Obviously i can’t use the ones i bought

I bought a cheapo Samsung early last year and it has a headphone jack, which is kind of hard to access because of the case

I just use my regular over the ear headphones plugged into a bluetooth transmitter

I was gifted a AirPods Max for my birthday a couple years back. I never would have been so extravagant on myself when I already have a perfectly good wired Grado and Sennheiser ones that I’m ride-or-die with. I must have a half-dozen each of mini-to-lightning/USBC adapters around the house. The APMs are very very good to great (it’s worth getting involved with the EQ settings in the iPhone’s Music player) - the noise-cancelling has been life-changing for travel.

If I get air pods I will keep forgetting to charge them, then will lose one or both after maybe a week, they are extremely non-ADHD-friendly.

I'm telling you, not even with the wired ones can I fit anything into my right ear. Any of 'em, from the official Apple™ buds to the cheap ones from Walgreens.

same. my ears reject buds

Glad I’m not alone. Everything falls out of my ears immediately

haha same

someone actually questioned me when I was at a Wawa eating and had some fairly big cans on my ears ("why not use earbuds, do headphones provide a better sound or something?").

outside of "why is it your business", my response was "the shit slips out my ears, I got mutant ears", and went back to rockin

Bluetooth has started to fail completely whenever phone goes into pocket

this never used to happen and is now consistent across different phones a s devices, what gives

* When I'm trying to read an article on my phone, and the text keeps jumping as new ads invade the column

xxp I dropped the $ for custom IEMs five years ago and it's been one of my best audio purchases ever.

Earbuds work fine for me, and so do Airpods— they rest in my ear in way that works.

But every other pair I have tried, from Sennheiser to Anker to cheap bodega ones— don’t work, the little bud part doesn’t rest in my ears at all.

That's why Sennheiser include a range of different sized bud parts with their ear buds. I recommend the Momentum TW3s.

none of them work— none of the sizes fit. perhaps you weren’t paying attention to the discussion

it’s happened with two different brands now, not going to waste more money by trying one of them again.

Tired of my search bar on my new laptop giving me web results when obviously I don't want that, had a look into how to do that, seems I have to go into regedit and set up a new registry key?! Fucking hell microsoft, fuck right off.

nb you can use open-shell to turn your windows search bar back into a proper windows search bar

(but I agree that microsoft can fuck off)

Nice, may give that a go!

related

i want to find out how long to grill these pork chops for

im in ireland

i want to be able to search for this info without getting a lot of results back related to barbecuing instructions because i didnt ask about barbecuing

im not going to type broil because im in fucking ireland and thats not a real word or thing

and my browser and search engine has a button to state im in fucking ireland

so i cant actually find this out without clicking into a load of sites and reading enough fucking biographies to fill a shelf and clicking past enough cookies to fill a shelf before finding out that this cunt of a page is also about barbecuing the fucking pork chops and ive asked about grilling

stupid fucking useless degraded search engine functionality shitheaps

Thin pork chops typically take 8 minutes to cook (4 minutes of searing on each side). Thick pork chops typically take about 20 minutes to grill to perfection - 8 minutes of searing over direct heat, plus 12 minutes of finishing over indirect heat.

he's using the broiler though (lol)

lol oh

I'd still go with those times tbh

I'm struggling with how bad my predictive text on my current phone has become. I remember much better ones that seemed semi intuitive they actually worked. This just 'corrects' things to wrong and loses the original word used. also keeps mistakes as correct forms.
Just so amazingly aggrovating.

Bluetooth headphones are another thing to charge, another layer of audio (data) compression and sometimes you just have sync issues. I've made peace with using a dongle.

another backward step regarding them is how the people for whom they work treat those for whom they don’t as morons and freaks. fuck bluetooth earpieces.