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Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran said:
I hate how phones have become the new default for many things. If I get an account somewhere, it suggests me to use the phone app instead of my browser on my desktop PC, because it's "more secure".

Bitch, what? My desktop PC has an antivirus. My desktop PC sits safely at home, never at risk of falling out of my purse or being stolen. How is a phone more secure? Why? Where did this notion come from?

I honestly don't understand it. I always have my phone with me when I go out. Women's pants and skirts usually lack real pockets, so I have to transport it in my purse. If I accidentally leave my purse somewhere, the phone is gone. People having their phones stolen right out of their hands in public isn't unheard of either. How come a lot of companies tell you that it's more secure than a desktop PC?

And not just companies. My bank recommended using their phone app. Why? When I make transactions, like paying for an online shop order, I do so at home. And at home I have my PC.

Some people use their phone to pay with nowadays, as some sort of debit/credit card replacement, or to use PayPal on. I never logged onto PayPal with my phone once, because the idea feels really unsafe to me.

I guess it's a generational thing. But even then, I absolutely do not understand the claim that phones are safer than desktop PCs or laptops. Can anyone explain this to me?
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I feel this hard. Had my bank pull the same shit in May, after having their customers use a physical 2FA thingie for virtually an eternity. I got mad enough to call them up after i saw it was either use the app from now on or buy a new, totally-the-fucking-same-thing-in-a-new-package authenticator for 40 fucking yurodollars because we won't support the old ones anymore. All i got, of course, was "Tough shit, switch banks if you don't like it, why are you even complaining, the app is free" in corpo speak.

Same shit happened not too long ago when i got gifted absurdly expensive noise cancelling headphones that needed the noise cancelling to be activated via an app on first use, which also required making an account first. Motherfucker, they have an on/off switch, if someone bought NC headphones they obviously want to use the NC, make it work on the fucking button press right off the bat! The absolute nerve of them to make more money off of customer data even if your customers already paid out of the ass for your product. Sony, as always, can eat my ass. I returned the headphones on fucking principle.

Sometimes i really feel 30 years older than i actually am.
 
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Recently took my dad to a car show, far less retro cars then the previous year and quite a few of them had memorial plaques to a relative previous owners.
My father also couldn't keep up with me. I wasn't moving particularly fast and he wasn't trying to walk slow. It's just that he can't walk like he used to which wasn't a whole lot long ago.
It was definitely a "your parents that raised you are now senior citizens" moment for me.
 
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It’s been hard watching my Dad grow older. I remember when he was in his 40s and at the prime of his life, fit, smart, and profession. He’s in his 70s now and has Alzheimer’s. He can barely remember most things now but he still remembers me. I’m somewhere around 10ths from 40 now and the thought is haunting. Our lives are so short and everything happens so fast. I really wish I had longer to cherish all of this beautiful world but the reality is in 30 more years I’ll be like him most likely. It’s realizing how terrifyingly short 30 years is that makes me feel old. It’s nothing. The blink of an eye. 10 years here and another 10 and before you know it it’s over before you ever got to really get anywhere.
 
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
It’s been hard watching my Dad grow older. I remember when he was in his 40s and at the prime of his life, fit, smart, and profession. He’s in his 70s now and has Alzheimer’s. He can barely remember most things now but he still remembers me. I’m somewhere around 10ths from 40 now and the thought is haunting. Our lives are so short and everything happens so fast. I really wish I had longer to cherish all of this beautiful world but the reality is in 30 more years I’ll be like him most likely. It’s realizing how terrifyingly short 30 years is that makes me feel old. It’s nothing. The blink of an eye. 10 years here and another 10 and before you know it it’s over before you ever got to really get anywhere.
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It's such a great joke from God that you finally figure out in your 50s what you needed to know in your 20s. Thanks a lot God. Bitch.
 
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Vril-Dame vom Aldebaran said:
I hate how phones have become the new default for many things. If I get an account somewhere, it suggests me to use the phone app instead of my browser on my desktop PC, because it's "more secure".

Bitch, what? My desktop PC has an antivirus. My desktop PC sits safely at home, never at risk of falling out of my purse or being stolen. How is a phone more secure? Why? Where did this notion come from?

I honestly don't understand it. I always have my phone with me when I go out. Women's pants and skirts usually lack real pockets, so I have to transport it in my purse. If I accidentally leave my purse somewhere, the phone is gone. People having their phones stolen right out of their hands in public isn't unheard of either. How come a lot of companies tell you that it's more secure than a desktop PC?

And not just companies. My bank recommended using their phone app. Why? When I make transactions, like paying for an online shop order, I do so at home. And at home I have my PC.

Some people use their phone to pay with nowadays, as some sort of debit/credit card replacement, or to use PayPal on. I never logged onto PayPal with my phone once, because the idea feels really unsafe to me.

I guess it's a generational thing. But even then, I absolutely do not understand the claim that phones are safer than desktop PCs or laptops. Can anyone explain this to me?
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During lockdown took the inlaws to a favorite restaurant that had an open patio to have a gum-smacking waitress look annoyed to have to explain to us that the menu was online and you could get to it by scanning the barcode on the standee. Something something physical menus aren't safe. Lord I'm glad those days of hysteria are over.

Anyway, I have two geriatrics with me who don't have smartphones, my husband who left his phone and his glasses at home, my sister in law whose phone died and a toddler who is quickly losing patience. It was all up to me, but I didn't have a QR scanning app nor enough data to download one quickly. We would have left but it was already a trial to decide on a place and get everyone there. I managed to just google the damn menu and even then the display was so absolutely fucked, even on my giant phone that there was no way I was going to what, read the menu to four adults and myself? My husband went in and got some copied paper menus thankfully.

I've run into this a few more times - at one restaurant the waitress suggested the QR code while handing us that physical menus saying, "You want menus, don't you?" while smiling. Another restaurant, the waitress said, "So, scan here to get the menu," to which I responded, "We're going to need a physical menu." Hopefully places are getting used to that this is not working, even for the tech savvy. If I'm looking at a menu on my phone it's because I'm getting takeout.
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I STILL don't fucking know what "Based" actually means.
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Don't bother. More than any generation previously, the lingo changes far to fast to make any meaningful sense of what the kids mean.
 
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