Yes, it is a standard bash shell, or whatever shell you want.
This reminds me of the other absolutely dumb thing it does. ESC doesn’t work! I’m not sure what exactly “terminal” is thinking ESC does, but it just makes the window flash, and vi stays in input mode. I assume there are a bunch of other keyboard related bugs that I haven’t discovered yet.
If I actually find a real use for it, I’d have to run an ssh server in the VM, and then connect to it from my SSH app on the phone, because at least the SSH app handles a keyboard properly.
Have no idea if this fits here, but it’s close enough…
My wife and I have an accounting business which requires a LOT of 2FA codes being sent to various phones. One thing I noticed is that these codes are ALWAYS 6 digits, meaning that I’ve never seen a 2FA code from 0 to 99999.
I don’t know much about security and 2FA codes (other than they SUCK), but this appears to me to be a man-made constraint which reduces the randomization of these codes… thereby reducing their ‘security’.
I’m sure there are other elements which enhances security (like the time limit, the ‘you have 3 chances to enter the code’ limit (if lucky)), but still.
Anyway, rant/observation over. You may proceed to your currently scheduled thread, already in progress.
I would assume that codes with leading zeros are allowed, so the codes from 0 to 99999 would still be available. But even if they’re not, that only reduces the number of possible codes by 10%, from 1,000,000 to 900,000, so not a huge reduction in security.
In the United States, FM stations are officially assigned to channels, from 200 (87.9 MHz (very rarely used)) to 300 (107.9 MHz). I recently saw an online application for channel 201, which included the complaint that the application was really for channel 200, but the filing disallowed specification of channel numbers less than 201.
True. To your point, one would assume a code beginning with 0 would show up in 10% of the 2FA requests and I can assure you this is most definitely not the case.
I have found one exception to the 6-digit rule. There’s a bank out here called Umpqua. Not only do they win the award for Most Horribly Designed Bank Website, but:
Here recently, I got the radio.net app on my Android, and I have discovered that it can pull in stations from Canada, Australia, England, practically anywhere– have found plenty of surprises, like an all-news radio station from Toronto called CityNews (CFTR 680), coming in crystal-clear.
The problem with it is, if you want to find stations from a particular area in the world, and you go to the “Cities” search, you must scroll down through the list of every single place in the world, not just the big cities (small towns are included as well), which means that if you wanted to find the stations from, say, Seattle, you’d have to scroll down through every single letter to S, and each letter has hundreds of place names; that’s a bit of an annoyance to me, having to scan through hundreds of place names to find the one you want.
The website isn’t unscathed either– it only allows for U.S. stations, and nothing elsewhere in the world.
Other than those two things, that app is one of the best apps I’ve ever gotten on my Android, and it’s far better than the disaster that has been Audacy.
I just ran into one yesterday. A certain camera manufacturer has a video player that allows you to stop the video and save the image as a JPG or BMP file. However, the image it saves depends on the resolution of the display screen, NOT the resolution of the original video in its native format. Furthermore, if you play the video on a screen above a certain resolution (say, 4K or 2560 x 1440), the window used to save the still image literally pushes the “Save” button off the bottom so it is inaccessible. And there is no option to hit any key or key combination equivalent to “Save.”
To further irritate the user, the aspect ratio of the image is dependent on the aspect ratio of the display monitor or window and does not match the original native format. Finally, the saved image is usually saved with an odd number of pixels horizontally and/or vertically and not the usual multiple of 4, 8, or 16.
Microsoft Word way back in the day. I spent a very long time searching through the help system trying to figure out frames. It had lots of step by step procedures. I could never find what it would do or why I would want it. Finally, I discovered that what I actually wanted was a border.
Ever since then I have referred to being confused by software as being ‘Microsofted’.
I’ve probably already complained about this but I’m taking a road trip in a rental car and once against ANDROID AUTO COMPLETELY SUCKS.
I just want to have my phone stream music/podcasts to my car speakers so I can listen while I drive. I don’t want Android Auto to completely take over my phone and try to shittily recreate it on my cars dashboard. I notice Android Auto also has a weird audio lag when you play it over the cars dashboard which isn’t present with straight streaming.
My employment situation is somewhat unusual. At one point, the payroll software was overpaying me. It took months to get the attention of the accounting department but, they were grateful when I pointed it out to them.
On my iPhone, when I open a PDF sent through email, a helpful popup appears saying: „An older version of this document is available.“ with a button labeled „Show original“ that leads me back to the email. I fail to see how this is useful to anyone. There doesn’t appear to be a way to turn off this annoyance.
Not all text needs bullet points. In fact, I usually don’t want them. Please stop automatically sticking them in any time I type or paste text on a slide.
(Is this a stupid software design or me not knowing how to change a setting?)
I taught a college course on computer basics that included Microsoft products. I dedicated one of the weeks about Word with six ways to use tables, including making a really nice looking resume. The assignment included an image showing the layout expected, a resume that was actually a two-column table (with hidden borders). I could tell when students didn’t attend class or even read the directions. Invariably someone would try to duplicate that by using lots of tabs. Ugh. It did not go well for them.
Maybe Word isn’t stupid, but it’s stupid that you had take a college course on how to really use it.
For the past few days, I’ve been using a text file in Notepad on my work computer to keep track of which students will be taking a makeup test when. Yesterday, I wanted to know roughly when I’d made a particular edit to the file (I didn’t need a precise timestamp, just relative to other edits would be enough), so I figured I’d undo until I got to that edit, then re-do it all back to where it was.
It turns out that Microsoft Notepad doesn’t have a re-do feature, and so every Undo I did was destroying information. Worse, since it doesn’t have a Redo, it was interpreting control-shift-z as just control-z with an irrelevant shift, and so my efforts to undo the damage were actually causing even more damage.
