Not that it’s germane to your very valid complaint, but why do you have regular payments to Dr Pepper?
Seemly every video app, now starts in a preview mode, with full sounds.
And where ever you scroll, the landing point will start a preview with audio.
So there is no quiet respite. I despise this.
Most places let you turn this off, but some won’t, and it’s obnoxious as hell when accessing on your phone.
I was wondering about that myself (and imagining @Joey_P with Dr Pepper piped into his home, so that every month he has to pay the Dr Pepper bill).
Dumbest design decision ever was Apple’s “Magic Mouse” that had the charging port at the bottom, making it absolutely impossible to use the mouse while it was charging.
Supposedly it was about aesthetics. A charging port in the front wasn’t considered “sleek enough”.
This is enoug to make me realize that Apple’s reputation for brilliant design is all hot air. They just make things look smooth on the surface so it looks nice in their retail stores. Actual usability, eh.
It’s for work. We get Dr Pepper directly from them (because they’re their own distributor, at least in my area).
That’s what makes them security questions!
Very old fashioned work around: write the number down on a piece of paper?
Still massively annoying; but a lot easier than going back and forth between tabs four characters at a time. Lots of ways to make the bit of paper illegible afterwards; if that’s even necessary for a one time use password.
This isn’t a case of “the stupidest,” but I have to question why Samsung puts the solar charging cells for their TV remote on the bottom of the device. For one thing, the internal battery lasts a long, long time between charges. And plugging it into a USB C charger charges it a lot faster than turning it over to use the solar charging cells. In spite of knowing that the cells are there on the bottom and ready to go, I NEVER lay it down on its buttons so it can charge. (Does that make me “the stupidest” user?)
I mean, why not make the unit fractionally longer and put them on the top? The cells aren’t that big.
Sorry. I just don’t understand this sentence. You have bills you have to pay to Dr. Pepper???
ETA: Ignore, please. I just noticed the reply abovie.
When you own a grocery store, you buy groceries just a wee bit differently than ordinary folk. 
Speaking of dumb web site authentication methods, today I tried to log in to CVS to check a prescription status. It tried to send a code to the Google Voice phone number I have registered with them but I never received it. I tried a couple of times but I guess for some reason their system wasn’t able to send to a Google Voice number. It gave me the option to “try another way”. I chose that, and it gave me a screen where I could type in a different phone number. I typed in a non-Google Voice number, it sent a code to it, I typed in the code, and then I was logged in.
Great, except where is the security in that process? All it proves is that the person trying to hack in to my account owns a phone.
Dollar General has 2FA so you can log in and add coupons to your account.
Well, of course. Dollar store-related fraud is endemic.
And don’t forget that it expires after a few minutes, so you have to retype it quickly.
Whenever anyone ever says they do something “for security purposes”, they should be required to explain just how it increases security.
Lets say, hypothetically, that 20 years ago you (generic ‘you’) had mail forwarded to 337 Oak St., Duluth MN.
If 20 years later some corporation asks you a verification question of, “Did you ever live at 337 Oak St., Duluth MN ?”
Most folks, I think, would make the connection and therefore answer “yes, I did” even though it’s untrue because that’s what the corporation (or whomever) want to hear in order to verify you. It’s the winning answer.
Yeah.
With e.g. four no-clue answers and one sorta-kinda familiar one I know which one I’m going to pick. But …
Although they’ve gotten smarter and the questions often (always?) include a “none of these are familiar to me” choice. Last time I ran one of these gauntlets a few weeks ago, at least one of the Qs had “none of the above” as the correct answer for me.
But as to whether they think my e.g. 2005 Chevy was tan or beige or brown, I don’t care, because I know I didn’t own any of those other cars, and car colors are vague ideas at best.
I’m pretty sure that the verification questions don’t ask “Which of the following addresses did you live at?” but something more general like " Which one of the following is a previous address?" or “Which of the following addresses is familiar?” because there are lots of people who don’t/didn’t use the actual address where they live for anything , they always use a mailing address.
I have a friend who has a family member who owns a Hyundai - can’t remember the model. It is a compact sedan though and nice and good on mileage. It has a stupid design though. If any of the tires is below a certain tire pressure then the car is not allowed to start up. So if you get a flat out in the wild and it is cold and you are awaiting help you cannot sit in your car and get warm.
I couldn’t believe this initially so I went over with my portable compressor and sure enough it didn’t start until I had added enough air to all of the tires. Has anyone else heard of this before?
This is true. I have difficulty lying in such situations, even though I know I should. But the specific problem is that they want my ZIP code, and I genuinely don’t know which one they have, just that it’s not anywhere I ever actually lived, and also not someplace anyone I know currently lives.
I did get through to a human the other day and was able to recite enough addresses where I HAD lived that they could identify me, but removing inaccurate information is too hard.