I received another email from #StandardBank, advising me to stop using a password to log into Internet Banking, and switch to scanning a QR code from within the Mobile App. No, Standard Bank, I'm not going to do that. Because it's stupid, and here's why:
The whole reason for me to visit Internet Banking on my computer is because I do not WANT to log into the banking app on my phone. But in order for me to use Internet Banking on my computer, they want me to open the app on my phone, log in, then navigate to the menu item for QR code scanning, and then scan the code I see on my PC monitor. At which point, I may as well use the mobile app. Which I didn't want.
Why can't they just use one of the many many Authenticator apps, like a normal company? I'd be more than happy to open my authenticator app, find Standard Bank, and punch the code in. It's good enough for Google, Microsoft, Github....
@GrahamDowns I also had issues with Discovery and my rooted Android phone. Their app refused to run on it even with the rooting cloaked. It was so bad that I was forced to unroot my phone because of their mobile requirements, otherwise I found I just could not do banking properly.
@GrahamDowns Discovery and Nedbank are the same. I HATE small screens with ONE display. I also can't see why 2FA with either device or authenticator app is not good enough. They seem to realise SMS is not so good, but now insist on mobile apps. Phones get lost or left behind...
Discovery's trick is you can only add virtual cards in the mobile app.
@danie10 I know the feeling. Mobile is good in a pinch, but it will never ever be my first choice for anything. Why would you pick up your phone to check social media (for example) when you're literally sitting at your PC, in front of your big monitor, keyboard, and mouse? ;-)
The only thing is, I can't work with more than one monitor. I've tried a few times, but my problem is -- probably because of my tunnel vision -- I keep losing the mouse. First it's on this screen, then 30 seconds later when I look for it it's on THAT screen. And tapping CTRL doesn't help, because yes, it pulses that target thing over it, but since it's on the other monitor, I can't see that, either.
I use a laptop for work, but it sits closed on the corner of my desk all day, so it may as well be a desktop. In fact, I think for my next "Work PC", I'm going to just buy one really beastly desktop and run separate profiles for work and home use.
With the price of high-spec laptops these days (and as developers, we need high spec machines; 8GB of RAM doesn't cut it, and even 16GB is the bare minimum), if I spent the same kind of money on a desktop I'd get two or three times as much RAM, processing power, and GPU. :P
@GrahamDowns yes I also avoid mobile. In my case I like 3 monitors, and even at the two offices I worked at, I always had an additional monitor plugged in.
Can maybe try changing the mouse cursor too, to something bigger, different colour, acceleration, etc.
I just prefer to glance at something that is open, next to what I'm typing into. My mind seems to wipe itself when alt-tabbing between windows overlaying each other (which is why my terminal screen is transparent).
@danie10 My cursor's already as big as it can be, mouse trails are enabled, and the CTRL-thingy I mentioned is enabled.
Even with one monitor, I lose the cursor sometimes, but I have Windows Magnifier sit to the side buttons on my mouse so I can just click with my thumb to zoom in, and then it zooms in to where the mouse is, so that also helps. And if I still can't find it, then CTRL works.
The thing with multiple monitors is, I physically cannot see the other monitor, never mind anything on it, unless I physically turn and look at it.
But maybe the magnify thing would help (I haven't tried multiple monitors in a while), so if I zoom in and the screen I'm looking at right now doesn't get bigger, obviously the mouse is on the other monitor. :)
Still, I think that'd be frustrating for me.
I think it'd be better if the mouse didn't automatically shift from one monitor to the next as you moved it to the edges of the screen. Maybe if it was a more deliberate thing, where it remained locked to whatever screen it was on until you pressed a shortcut key or something? 🤔
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