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The Last Stand said:
When people put faces that stare AT you as wallpapers/backgrounds. Massive jumpscare.
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Why is the IT sector CONSTANTLY reinventing GUIs that used to work perfectly?
-I'm looking at you Microsoft.
The Teams/OneDrive/Sharepoint integration was completely usable 10 years ago, now unintuitive and disorganized.
 
Ann said:
Passwords are becoming more and more useless these days. A few weeks ago I tried out a phone emulator and used one of my burner google accounts on google play to download apps (which was retarded of me, I know). They demanded a phone number to "verify" even though no phone number were attached to the account itself. I obliged (yes yes). I later uninstalled the emulator but forgot to log out. A few days later I tried logging in on another device and they told me to get a code from a device the account is signed in for "security". The only device is that emulated phone which I no longer have access to. There is litterally no other way. So now I lost the account even though I know the password.
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Don't forget how aggressively passkeys are getting pushed as an "out" for memorising your fucking password, or I dunno... using a goddamn password manager to make and store randomly generated passwords??? Gee, what's more secure for Bob, aged 50, whose knowledge of technology stopped advancing after 2005? His son setting up Bitwarden on his phone and importing all the passwords he has in iCloud's keyring to his vault, and then helping Bob set up new passwords for future accounts? Or... Bob getting persuaded by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and so on to make a "passkey" that he instinctively makes his fucking bank PIN, the last 4 of his SSN, or anything else along those lines?
 
Dread First said:
Or... Bob getting persuaded by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and so on to make a "passkey" that he instinctively makes his fucking bank PIN, the last 4 of his SSN, or anything else along those lines?
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what? That's not how passkeys work. What were you even trying to say here.
Passkeys use public key signing for specific devices. I will not claim their quality or otherwise because I don't use them and don't plan to, but they have nothing to do with any input that could derive a "bank PIN" or SSN, that makes no sense
 
Orange Rhymer said:
Why is the IT sector CONSTANTLY reinventing GUIs that used to work perfectly?
-I'm looking at you Microsoft.
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Oh yes, IYKYK.

Here's a perfect example: the Xbox 360's GUI/UX. Around 2008-2011, Microsoft perfected their console interface with the New Xbox Experience.


Clean, simple, intuitive, native to the Xbox 360 itself.

They did redesign it around 2011-2012 with a Metro design, but the same layout applied.


Then, 2013 came and they had to stick to their Windows 8 philosophy of stacked tiles.


Horrible.
 
Tremolo said:
what? That's not how passkeys work. What were you even trying to say here.
Passkeys use public key signing for specific devices. I will not claim their quality or otherwise because I don't use them and don't plan to, but they have nothing to do with any input that could derive a "bank PIN" or SSN, that makes no sense
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYfiOnufBSk
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All that security cryptography stuff is airtight but my point is “the target demographic either already has adequate solutions OR they will kneecap the benefits of passkeys with human error.”
 
Orange Rhymer said:
Calls to/from India should have a required $50 connection fee.
Each call, $50. Non negotiable. US dollars. Payable to the US Govt.

They money should be pooled and reimbursed to each phone number in the US.
God knows we all get those calls 5x a day.
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They would find a way to charge this fee to the White person receiving the call instead of the Jeet who makes the call.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
"scan a QR code"
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Oh yeah, I recently saw a flyer for an event: no phone number, no URL. Just a QR code.

Ann said:
Passwords are becoming more and more useless these days.
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I tried logging into my email at a family home to send a file to myself, but I needed to "verify" to get in. Had to resort to sending the pic to myself via a DM to me on KF.
 
Curry Teafag said:
I, too, use Macrium Reflect Free for my backups, but it's an older version from 2023 or so, when that stuff was still available.
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Green Man said:
AOMEI Backupper, which is honestly shit in some of its own ways [the automated cleanup function doesn't work half the time, thus necessitating manual deletion/organization of backup files, defeating the entire purpose of it], I specifically bought the paid version so I could make use of this feature and it just doesn't fucking work like 70% of the time.
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I have an older free version of Macrium Reflect for my main desktop. It does its job well, so I'll keep using it until I can't.

However, the free version won't backup shared network drives, so I use AOEMI Backupper for that and my SOHO computer. I have my own issues with Backupper, but at least I can backup all the data on my network drives.

Tangentially, I hate how cpmplicated it is to do something that should be simple such as putting data on a network drive so you can access it from any device in your house.

Falcos_Commisar said:
Sadly 2024 was the last year of non subscription Macrium
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When I looked at Macrium last year before getting Backupper, I was disappointed to see the former went down the subscription route.

Green Man said:
Not to mention, with subscription models - you never actually own the software, you have a temporary license which can be revoked at any time for any reason. It's quite tiresome.
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All I want is software i can purchase and run until I need new hardware or the updated software becomes outdated with a new better version (emphasis on better is probably optimistic 🌈). In the shitty software thread, I ripped QuickBooks to shred for eliminating its desktop offerings because the cheapest subscription plan is out of my league for what I would use it for. Once my version can't be used any more, I may have to see if a demo version of a simpler piece of alternative software suits my needs, otherwise I'll be using a manual bookkeeping ledger and spreadsheets instead.

ToroidalBoat said:
Seems dependence on the "smartphone" is exponentially rising. I was recently at an event where I saw that if you wanted to check the lost and found, you had to "scan a QR code" to complete an online form.
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When I had to check my mom in to the ER, she was told to scan a QR code to begin the admission process. When she said she didn't have one for reasons, I was told to use mine. I wonder what would have happened had I not been there. Of course, a day or two later, I'm getting spammed with, "Take this survey to share your ER experience with us!" texts.

Those texts are another hate-able trend. I've received them not just for medical care, but for car rental and repair companies. I've already told the people in charge at each place I was happy with their services. I'm not going waste time on a survey that wants extraneous additional details.
 
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