Two factor authentication is the bane of my existence. It is #ANNOYING! I misplace all the time. This may be related to my #ADHD but maybe not since that hasn’t improved since my doctor put me on Vyvanse while everything else in my life more-or-less has. From a security standpoint I get it, but I do get so concerned about how much of one’s identity is tied to your phone these days. Not only does that hurt people who chose not to have a cell phone, but how easy is it for me to lose everything if someone else steals my cell phone.
In fact Facebook requiring me to activate #2FA to continue to utilize my account was the primary driving factor between me using Friendica as my primary social media now rather than Facebook, even though I first joined the ‘verse back in 2011, when it was called simply open source microblogging and was pretty much just identi.ca/feeds/7gqal0c2pesei9… (if you had an account there, it still works BTW and @evan has indicated he plans to integrate ActivityPub by this summer, after its previous protocols, StatusNet and Pump.io, have fell out of favor). @passwords@neurodiverse@netsec@ADHD kill-the-newsletter.com/altern…
Anyone else get annoyed by people on being in their phone while walking down the street? I know I do some times (and also do it myself but don’t tell anyone…).
Well I’ve just seen a man walking down the street read a book, and I’m struggling to work out whether I should be annoyed or not.
TFW I sign into Windows for the first time in over 300 days, let it update for a while, then Windows bumps itself above Ubuntu so I can't log into Linux anymore so I have to look up how to load up the BIOS menu so I can realign the boot order, and putting Ubuntu back above Windows.
I may have spent more of today than I'll admit in creating tiny beepy things with #MicroPython that chirp in accordance with Dolbear's “law” of cricket chirp rate vs temperature
#opensource chat server Rocket Chat decided to make their latest upgrade plain abusive. If you run your own, you are now required to enrole in a trial of their premium proprietary nonsense and it's likely the server is spying on it's admins and users.
great
Looks like #inkscape is going to have to move chat systems. There's just no way to regain trust in an upstream that is abusive. Not without forking away from the abusers.
TFW you accidentally delete the screenshots you took in Animal Crossing instead of press the share to phone button and lose the cool shots you just took of your new post-apocalyptic area of your island.
We still have a land line telephone, though we both have cell phones as well. The home phone is inundated with calls from telemarketers, which is annoying at best. I get the idea, that it's a job for somebody, but I don't entertain the idea of doing any business, I didn't initiate, with strangers over the telephone. Another weird thing is that often when we answer the phone and say hello, there is nothing from the other end - quiet. Lately, I've taken up a tactic that I use when I don't recognize a number and I get a call ID description of wireless caller or out of area. I answer the phone as:" Alfred's Unicycle Universe."
“Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.” - Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
That moment you are out observing the aurora australis and you entirely wish someone had invented a cloud hoover machine. #aurora#auroraaustralis#clouds#annoying
Why can’t I put shit where I want it to be on my iOS home screen?
Why does it have to “flow?”
There are five icons I want at my right thumb. I shouldn’t have to fight a slide puzzle to place them there. It’s like Windows’ Arrange Icons that people were so relived to find they could turn off.
For those unaware, not only are #posts from people #NewHere who add #Hashtags like this in the bod of posts, #annoying for everyone... they make it REALLY HARD for people with screen readers (since most reading technologies will read the hashtags out loud).
Put your hashtags at the end of the post, and use CamelCase to make life easier for everybody.
This might be something for a future Mastodon update, actually. The way Tumblr creates a space for hashtags at the bottom of posts could be a handy feature to adopt here, for instance.
I'm generating the image to print myself, with the correct number of pixels for the label media in question. The printer is supposed to be able to print edge-to-edge, top-to-bottom, but it always starts printing 6mm / 1/4" down from the top.
I have found myself #complaining about the small, #unimportant things that are more #annoying than #life-altering, but complaining about the big, #important things that are life-altering is either pointless or too much trouble when you're just struggling to get through the day.
I have a new ergonomic keyboard and it is great and has helped. But also the scroll lock key is MUCH closer to the other keys than a normal keyboard and appears to be my new "power button next to the delete key" nemesis.
Pet peeve: once again unknowingly switched to paperless billing on one of the credit cards, and they don't reliably deliver the bill emails. Fortunately the automatic "pay more than the minimum" bill pay did the trick, but still owe interest I really didn't want to pay. #annoying