Thanks for the suggestion, but ‘Start’ selects “ProWash” and “Heated Dry”. So, no dice. Good thought though.
I had signed up for Skymiles on the first leg at the airport and tried to check in on my iphone. As to whether it was the mobile version of their website or thier iPhone app, I’m not certain. I think I just clicked on the link that they send 24 hours prior to departure to my email.
If you didn’t go to the App Store and download and install an app (and didn’t already have it installed), then it would have been their mobile website in your browser. It would not surprise me if they put less effort into the mobile website than their app, since they probably want to push people into downloading the app.
Fair enough, I’ll download the app before my next trip.
Logged onto a commercial website I haven’t logged onto for several months. Immediately get hit with a DUE TO A DATA BREACH WE ARE REQUESTING YOU CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE INPUT A NEW PASSWORD THAT ISNT SIMILAR TO YOUR OLD PASSWORD.
So let me get this straight, something happened on YOUR end and now you want to change passwords so the hackers can get that new password too?
Ostensibly, that website has already fixed the breach and the attacker does not have access anymore.
On the PlayStation 5 main menu there’s two options, Games and Media. Games is all video games, Media is streaming services, whatever blu-ray is currently in the player, any additional media APPs you may have installed.
So you put in a USB drive to watch something off of it, where do you go? If you said Media you’re wrong, it’s in the Games section for some reason despite the fact you can’t actually play Games off said USB drive, you can only watch Media on it. But you still have to go to the Games section to play it and then click through a bunch of options to actually get to it.
Which is especially dumb because on the PS4 interface the USB interface was given it’s entirely own section.
is there a reason getting the dishes dry by the dishwasher is a bad thing? asking since the place we might be moving to has a brand new dishwasher that might have that on it
Just a matter of power consumption. It’s using resistive electric to heat the air to dry the dishes. If you just wait a bit, your dishes will mostly dry themselves without the extra energy.
My wife just prefers to air dry. Saves energy I guess. Also we use air dry if there’s anything plastic in the load.
I’m setting up a new laptop and running into a slew of idiocy.
MS demands a “Microsoft account” to set things up. (Note to MS: I have never used and will never use your app store.) I was trying to use some tricks found online and the thing locked me out, Could not log into a brand new computer! So I had to download the mfr.'s restore disc, load up a USB drive, go into the BIOS (which was surprisingly hard), boot from the USB, and reinstall and start over.
In the lead up to the lockout MS asked me to solve some Captcha-type problems to prove I’m human. Um, I’m just trying to get ino the OS on a laptop? What do thy think I’m using, remote controlled robot hands???
Well, one test consisted of getting an animal pic facing the same way as a hand pic. Turns out, the direction is highly ambiguous. My best choice wasn’t what they wanted. And if you get one wrong with a set, they start over with the next set being longer, so greater chance for error. The other one was some sort of matching thing that took several attempts before I could even figure out what they were asking me to do. And I have a PhD in CS! How do they expect regular people to solve these???
I decided to feed MS a little used spare gmail account. So I logged into it on another computer to check that I could get into it. Used the correct password. Google decided it needed further verification so it sent a code to my recovery email. Fine, so I c&ped the code. Now it wants to send another code by text. Problem, there is no phone number associated with the account! Huh??? Trying over and over lead to Google now wanting me to pass a Captcha test! The symbols were so skewed and clustered I had no idea what they were. I clicked on the audio button to get that code. It was complete gibberish. Some guy with a heavy Indian accent seemed to be saying numbers but it was all overlapped and overdubbed with other random talking. Completely inaudible. I mean, you couldn’t at all tell if you were hearing a number or something else.
I later tried another browser, did the email code, put in a cell phone number that has nothing to do with the account, got that code, got a Captcha that apparently was just barely readable enough to pass and got in.
I mean, seriously, they accepted any phone number??? That’s supposed to represent security???
Anyway, used the gmail account to start a fresh MS/outlook account. But now the user name on the computer is NOT the actual user name I want to use. I.e., the one on the old laptop. And transferring settings from one user to another is apparently a nightmare.
Plus a ton of things. E.g., I always have the taskbar on top. I “work” on the screen mostly near the top and that’s more convenient. I also set it to auto-shrink so that strip of screen generally holds the title bars of windows, a section of a window I rarely need to click on so having the taskbar there allows it to be reused.
But the latest Windows version of course doesn’t allow you to move the taskbar. Even the old registry hack in previous versions is disabled. What the what??? What difference does it make to MS if it’s at the top or bottom (or left or right). The customer is always right.
The biggest headache now is moving the browser data from the old to the new. There is no built-in export function into the browser. (There’s a partial import from other browsers on the same computer but that’s not remotely helpful.) Um, why not???
Found out the standard way is to copy stuff from deep in the filesystem online. Did that. Didn’t work. I think the different user name is a problem.
And on and on and on.
(And apropos of the recent thread on oldest computing tech, I installed old ACDSee onto the new computer. File association is still a headache, of course, since MS wants us to use their progs by default. Um, no thanks.)
The Gmail vs Outlook is funny for me as I find that Gmail’s UI, compared to Outlook’s, is messy, counterintuitive and just generally awful. I find Gmail so unpleasant that I’m considering buying it for personal use.
One really stupid software design thing is the Undo function in Excel. It functions on a stack across all open Excel docs so that if you have two or three Excel docs open (not uncommon in my job) and if you are actively using two or more, you can’t just do a series of Undo in one doc only. Undo will act on actions in all docs. It’s a major pain.
As the president of the Masochist’s club, I applaud this!
LOL! But you really have to have the correct outlook on life.
I really hate captchas that say PICK ALL PARTS OF THE PHOTO THAT HAVE A MOTORCYCLE and there’s a square that has like a tiny piece of a handlebar in it and it gets me questioning if that actually counts.
Or it’s one showing multiple photos and I have to identify the motorcycles and I really have to look to see if one of a motorcycle or just a regular bicycle.
I recall hearing (and am at work so I can’t google this right now) that VHS won the home VCR war over Beta by being the first to offer porn. HD-DVD tried the same thing with BluRay but by that time porn was internet based and it was no longer relevant to own any.
Yeah, Gmail. No folders, just tags. Ugh.
I love the intuitive concept of folders (and subfolders, etc.). And what if an email belongs in more than one place? There’s this concept called links in filesystems. One email can seem to be in more than one place. Instead of multiple tags, you just “put” it in more than one folder via links.
This is a major complaint people have about Gmail. Google knows better than their customers.
I don’t have a problem with Gmail’s Labels. They function identically to folders, except each item can be in more than one label. They still have the hierarchical structure, allowing you to put a label inside another label.
Google clearly wants you to see them like folders, as it has a “move” button that specifically looks like a folder.
Lots of people complain about ambiguous captchas, but it’s not actually a problem. Some parts of a captcha it’ll already know (such as from other humans already having done it), and some parts it won’t know (either because nobody has done that part yet, or because the humans who have done it didn’t all agree). Only the former category will determine if you, personally, will get to log in. The latter category won’t affect you, just (potentially) some other schmuck logging in later, and not even that if it’s too ambiguous.
If you have things such that a single item can be in more than one of them, then that is tags.
This might be relatively minor compared to some of the other ones, but I have a complaint about Five Guys’ online ordering system. At Five Guys, if you order a burger “all the way”, that gets you a specific standard subset of the toppings they offer. But if you order online, there is no option for all the way. If that’s how you want your burger you have to individually select those specific toppings. It wouldn’t be hard for them to add an “all the way” option to the online menu that would automatically select those toppings for you.