What’s on your mind?

[splifingate]

complicated by increasingly developing cataracts

Yeah, that's a balancing-act, for sure!

Other's I have talked with have done their "when should I get eye surgery" accounting less on a monetary scale, and more to the "I have one, good shot at success, and I don't want to use it up too early".

Though my focal-points have become reduced at an increasingly-rapid pace, I will just wait until I just can't take it any longer.

 

[splifingate]

I am really getting tired of people trying to run scams against me all the time. Calling on the phone, emails, text messages, people knocking on the door. Electronic filtering of texts, phone calls, and emails are mostly effective. But still a few get through each day and if I turn off the filtering, there are several dozen fraudulent solicitations each day.

Same. Boils my blood!

 

[splifingate]

The whole diamond ring

thing

Yeah . . . best, and worse, USD1.4K I ever spent...

 

[VisceralRealist]

What's on my mind is my favorite phrase in all of technology: "something went wrong".

 

[bousozoku]

What's on my mind is my favorite phrase in all of technology: "something went wrong".

I love a good catch-all phrase.

I have worked with some software developers that would implement error recovery code and then, the message would be something like that for everything. They didn't actually check the error(s).

 

[rm5]

What's on my mind is my favorite phrase in all of technology: "something went wrong".

The one that literally makes me want to throw my computer out the second story window (I live on the second floor of the dorms) is when I click the browser bookmark for my school portal and up comes “hang on a moment while we sign you out.” WHEN I LITERALLY DID NOTHING. After an unspecified time period, it automatically signs out. Then I have to sign back into my school portal, receive a 2FA code to the Microsoft Authenticator app on my phone (which works about 20% of the time), and then FINALLY I can access school resources. I have to do this at least 3x a week.

EDIT: I have a worse one. The Ellucian services. Those don’t log on with Microsoft, they use some other single sign on service. But after literally 20 minutes, it makes me sign in again. That’s where my institution hosts registration and course evaluation forms.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

When they are allowed to spoof fake numbers, what can you do?

 

[decafjava]

I got another "you forgot to pay your tolls" scam text message today.

I got a call with a robot voice saying "This is a call from .. Geneva police department.." then I hung up. It was also in English which was either dumb or super sophisticated ("they" know my first language is English) kidding.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Just signed my new iCloud T&C’s. Thanks UK Government for making me less secure!

Sun was out this morning. Made a most pleasant change. Clouding over a bit now though. Hopefully Mrs AFB will get her washing dry still.