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Zagone

@ Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

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  • T-Mobile 5G Home Gateway Login Circus

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  • So... I made another attempt at this once I got home from vacation. I turned off all anti-tracking plug-ins. I turned off VPN. I made sure I was connected to the T-Mobile router itself (I have several Internet services -- don't ask...).

    Well... It's no longer sending 2FA to my email address to confirm I'm me. I guess that is progress. It still makes me enter my T-Mobile phone number after I enter my email address and password, then happily declares that I have an account! Then I can click on that link to repeat the endless cycle again and again...

    So, I'll have to call them. Last time I called them they wanted to send a PIN code to my router for me to read back to them (which I could not -- out of town). Okay -- so I've logged into my router now, and unlike past T-Mobile routers, I see NO PLACE that I can receive text messages... So unless I'm missing something I CAN'T be sent a PIN code to my router....

    This should be a fun phone call to tech support.

    What they CAN do is continue to bill my expired(?) credit card for an extra $5/month -- even though they don't have the new 3-digit code from the back of the card or the new expiration date. I guess this is good? I have questions.

    -- Zagone

  • Shops that close early

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  • This is definitely an after-COVID thing. Pick hours and stick to them. Case-in-point -- local Pho noodle place that advertises closing at 10pm, usually closes by 9pm, but they really want you to come by 8:30pm to pick-up your carryout.

    If you are tired -- post new hours. If you found new meaning in life -- post new hours. If you are having trouble finding staff -- post new hours.

    Instead, I have to play this guessing game of when they close. My wife gets home at 9:30pm, so I'd rather not be picking up at 8:30pm (or being called back to please rush over to grab the food fast).

  • T-Mobile 5G Home Gateway Login Circus

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  • This is but one example. It's getting to the point when -- anytime I need to log into an account on a major site -- I must disable VPN, disable Pihole and tracking blockers, and maybe make sure I'm on a home Internet service. If they actually cared about security, the 2FA and long passwords would be enough.

  • "Thank you For Your Service"... During the Revolutionary War!

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  • Got told "thank you for your service" AGAIN today. I think maybe Disney employees are under command of The Mouse to say it.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    "Thank you For Your Service"... During the Revolutionary War!

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    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    T-Mobile 5G Home Gateway Login Circus

  • Free Tier Web Services Versus Paid Tier

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  • HousePanther -- That is very nice of you. I'm game to give this a (slow) go given I'm working 50+ hours per week as a psychotherapist.

    Already on my radar -- an rss feed to lemmy community posting robot (name is at home and can't find it right now -- it is on GitHub).

    Anything that takes emails or rss feeds and converts them to Mastodon or Lemmy posts.

    Anything that lets me run my own telehealth 2-way video server. I'll have to sign a HIPAA BAA (medical privacy) agreement with vendors and server farms. Or run it at home.

  • Sam's Club Tips on Paid Deliveries

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  • Well sure, Teft -- you are not wrong. But let's say I'm working 10 hours per day to live in this capitalist system (I am), and need to outsource shopping. There are only so many mom and pop shops I can get delivery from, and only so much time I want to spend going to the store myself.

    I'm mostly not lazy -- I'm stressed in other ways.

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    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    Free Tier Web Services Versus Paid Tier

  • Sam's Club Tips on Paid Deliveries

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  • In Maryland -- a few decades ago -- yes, full service pumps did come with the expectation of tipping the gas station attendant.

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    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    Sam's Club Tips on Paid Deliveries

  • Lumed waves on the Christopher Ward C60 #tide

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  • This is one of the more lovely watches in the dark (showing lume). Liking Christopher Ward as I see them. Thank you for sharing.

  • X Does Not Close the Window

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  • Extremely infuriating: When the crappy built-in Android screen capture software will only capture gifs as movies, the built-in editing software saves the newly one-frame file in a different directory without comment, then Jerboa throws an error code when you try to upload and edit the original post. Then -- after emailing the edited gif to your laptop and attempting to fix the original post from web browser, Lemmy throws an error of "{"data":{"msg":"Unsupported image format","files":null},"state":"success"}". Yes -- the "unsupported" image is a one frame no-longer-a-movie gif.

    The file will be staying a movie. I'm out of time to deal with it. It's only one second long anyway.

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    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    X Does Not Close the Window

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    Zagone @lem.clinicians-exchange.org

    The Cola Cow

  • Removed

    X.com -- One Guess...

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  • Alright, I have not tracked Elon's career and didn't feel like Googling.

    So executives at PayPal are on vacation, and the world is making fun of Elon for buying it twice.

  • xfinity hotspot access fuckery

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  • Thanks -- it does become funny for me as more time passes. Not so funny was the year Comcast signal was too weak to operate for 10 days over the Christmas holiday.

  • xfinity hotspot access fuckery

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  • I have a long and special history with Comcast. My city has given them the sole monopoly cable contact. So -- I believe -- they are obligated to provide me service. The distance from pole to house is too long. No less than 3 service people have come out and said they have to put in a thicker cable like those used on the telephone poles. Nope -- the work order always disappears. Of course, they have to pretend they will eventually do something, because -- city monopoly.

    Used a signal booster for a long time and that helped (I had to buy it) except at holidays when everyone was home. Then more people in the area got service -- dropping the signal.

    After some years, T-Mobile 5G moved in and I happily dumped Comcast (monopoly only applies to cable).

    There is more, but you get the idea.

    Never give Comcast a monopoly on service. Even had me considering satellite Internet in the middle of the city at one point!

  • A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly

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  • My wife has a 14-yr-old cat that she refers to as "my old man baby". The cat's mannerisms and age fit the name. That said, the phrase weirdly straddles a few categories in this discussion.

  • A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly

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  • While piped.video is truly useful, eventually the bot repetition will yuck my yum.

  • Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

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  • Exactly. There are 3 to 10 solutions to every problem -- all of which worked for someone, 0 to 4 of which will work for you. Spend two hours, then role the dice and see if you got lucky.

    If it did NOT work, was it stupid user error, wrong or incomplete directions, malfunctional software, or randomness in your particular unique machine configuration?

    Or -- if you use Oracle's free VPS -- was it an undocumented incompatibility between the code and the unusual chipset they sometimes offer?

  • Reddit now won't let non-logged in users see subreddits until they've been "reviewed"

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  • My operating assumption here is that Reddit can collect more data to sell if people are logged in and use their app.

    Does not matter if you destroy 75% of the usefulness of the system if the remaining 25% can be more effectively monetized.

  • Gotta get that calcium

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  • Yikes.