I worked in a wine shop that had banks of conputers that people could ise to look up reviewer’s rating on wines or place orders on our website. I ended up having to get IT to lock them down to only 6-7 websites because people would use them to try to access their banking. I had to explain to way too many people with jobs in high finance the risks of them doing this on a public computer. Too many idiots would do banking on a flight only to get robbed.
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I watched a woman log into her email at a Best Buy laptop kiosk then walk away. I went over and logged her out.
The user is a moron. Lock your shit.
I spent two years at that aforementioned wine shop emailing “I love you” to my co-worker buddy Rob should anyone have left open their email. Rob knew it was me but always made a point to thank the person who said they loved him.
When I bought my house it took the old owner ages to reroute all of her mail to whatever her new address was. At one point sje had a credit card sent to her and it came to my house along with the PIN number.
If I'd been so inclined I could have withdrawn all the money from her account.
Meanwhile when I moved in I spent the first 2 days basically doing nothing other than making sure all of my mail was coming to my new address.
People are just really bad at thinking
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The article is about extended displays though. No traces left.
And The last time I flew the displays had viewing angles tht made it so only you could see the display, sp they were actually more private than laptops.
I've never seen angle protection on those screens and I've flown multiple carriers with them.
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No traces but you are still sharing your financials on a screen
I'm already annoyed when someone is using their phone in the dark and doesn't adjust the brightness settings.
If you do this during night flights, sincerely, fuck you.
How?! How can they stand it themselves and not feel like they're being blinded?
They're just not letting their eyes get dark-adapted in the first place. They can't see anything but the phone screen, but they also don't care.
As someone with their phone set to the bottom third of the brightness spectrum almost always (unless I'm outside), I really don't understand this. Brightness is perhaps my most adjusted setting, since I use it a half dozen times a day or so. In fact, brightness is the least interesting spec when looking at a device, since I rarely run at max anyway. In fact, my computer screen I use for work is usually at 50% brightness.
How can people stand getting blasted with lumens all the time?
As someone who finds that most "dark mode" offerings aren't dark enough, I don't understand how they can tolerate it either. I suspect it's rather like spicy food: given enough exposure, you don't notice it's spicy (or bright) until reaching a level far above what people who aren't exposed to it on a constant basis would think was acceptable.
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Probably just don't know what dark mode is
My wife does this. At 2am. Often mid week. And wonders why I wake up in the middle of the night and grumpy.
I just want to know when I can connect my noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones to the display instead of the tinny pair of wired "maraccas" that I keep in my travel bag.
Idk, 150 people in a tin can all using Bluetooth could cause issues.
It would be better to get noise cancelling headphones with a 3.5mm headphone jack. I had some until my daughter broke them, and I loved them.
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The second we get a better short range wireless protocol so there aren't a hundred Bluetooth devices jamming each other on the plane.
If you travel a lot they do make airplane headphones that have a 3.5mm connector and run noise cancelling.
I've been on budget flights where the in-flight infotainment was an app on your phone which connects to a media server on the plane. Everyone was watching with Bluetooth headphones and there were no issues.
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People can’t behave themselves in public. Even more so on airplanes.
Reason is a shit rag, and I don't think their slop should be posted.
I think they're one of the better ones since they tend to cite their sources clearly. Media bias fact check agrees with me as well.
They are super biased though, and you'll get something between a libertarian and Republican lite perspective (think socially liberal Republicans). They absolutely shouldn't be your only source of news and they're very selective about what they cover, but when it comes to factual accuracy, they're pretty good.
Perhaps you disagree with their political bias, but that doesn't make them inaccurate. I highly recommend reading some high quality news sources with a different political bias than your own to get a broader perspective. It doesn't have to be Reason, but Reason is a decent option for left-leaning people because the factual accuracy is pretty high and the perspective is so different.
Reason is libertarian and MBFC has a massive libertarian bias. Reason is a poster child for lying with facts.
It absolutely has a strong bias, but my point is that they do a great job with citing facts, whereas a lot of large media orgs don't bother. That's why they get a strong factual rating.
I certainly could never recommend Reason as a primary news source (even as a libertarian myself), but it's fantastic as a secondary to whatever mainstream media source you like. It offers a different perspective and sometimes facts that other sources leave out (for their own biased reasons), and I find that really valuable. If you're not libertarian, it'll challenge some of your assumptions and hopefully make you think.
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Rule 34.
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