Roody_Yogurt wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:46 pm This reminds me of how I sometimes choose Amazon's slowest shipping method when they offer to throw some digital credits which I eventually use for buying or renting videos. The frustrating thing is that they don't charge my card until the item is shipped and it occasionally messes up how much I think I have at my disposal later in the week. It's like, I don't care when you actually ship it, but just charge me right away so it doesn't fuck me up later. (because, yes, I'm using a debit card)

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:19 pm Yes, but!!

I sort of like it coming out of the bank account at regular intervals. It lets me know "how I am doing" for the two week period before I get paid again. As I have and use a Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Discover card, I would not want to hold the aggregate total in my head when I can just pay them off each day or days. Sometimes they don't let you pay it off every day, I have found.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:56 pm I then pay the credit cards off each day so I don't accumulate a balance

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:38 am I check my Discover balance every day, I check all my financial balances every day.

Flack wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:55 am Great Moments in Computer Programming:

Walgreens, where my wife and I pick up our prescriptions, has my wife's last name on record with the apostrophe, and mine without. It could be the other way around. We always forget which of our accounts has the apostrophe and which does not.

Every time we go through the drive-thru to pick up a prescription and they ask for the name, we have to explain to them "it may have the apostrophe and it may not." When both of us have a prescription to pick up, we have to explain that the names will be in the system differently. this always leads to them looking us up by date of birth which is fine, but it's never the first step.

We've already asked. Nobody who uses the system has the ability to update it.

Oh, and while this is a Walgreens policy complaint more than a computer programming complaint, when both of us have a prescription to pick up they make each one of us verify our address. It's the same address. And we're both there, side by side.

This is Brianna in the Ohio center. Thank you for messaging in, I hope you are having a great day so far! I see you are inquiring about the security feature. We do not have a way of turning off the security for logging into your account. If the system wants to verify further we are not able to turn that off, this is to keep the account secure. Was this information helpful?

I am very sorry to hear that you will no longer be using your Discover card. The 2 factor authentication is strictly for security measures to protect your account.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:37 pm I tried Half-Life 2 "RTX" after seeing it be posted about on Caltrops. It won't load, which - whatever. It freezes my computer.

43GB download. Tried it twice, had to do a cold boot each time. Uninstalled that. I used to think Valve was on top of it, but that is shit.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:58 am Gotta talk about how god awful with fake security Verizon is.

- It forced a password change for the first thing. You know. How apps do.
- Because I won't give the app access to EVERYTHING I DO ON MY PHONE (seriously, it said that) it petulantly won't save my password and puts a screen up telling me this. It forces me to press "no" on this screen each time I try to use the app.
- Knowing the password isn't enough to get into the app. The password it made me change must be entered each time. It then demands a SMS code too.
- When I went to install the app, it sent me three different SMS codes. THREE. To LOGIN. In my HOME. Where I EAT.