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Made me think of a time I didnt do adequate research before buying an expensive flight ticket: I was in Changi Airport and had a cheap return ticket to Malaysia

by jbj 6y ago

Made me think of a time I didnt do adequate research before buying an expensive flight ticket: I was in Changi Airport and had a cheap return ticket to Malaysia, when I got back I was going to travel in the east coast of Australia for a few weeks as the end of my study abroad in Asia. It dawned to me that I never actually checked the Visa rules for Australia, but just pressumed that they would be like any othet commonweath country I had previously visited. Turned out I was lucky and didnt need a paper visa, but could do with an e-visa. As my HTC Desire Android phone had died in the humiddity, I only had the cheapest nokia I could find, X-1 ... Armed with a 2011 public internet kiosk of internet explorer, I tabulated through the australian immigration forms and found the correct form, filled it out while my browsing session of the kiosk expired, after a few tries, I knew exactly the way around the static site, and was what some would call "speedrunning" through their website. After sumbitting I just had to hope for the best. If that site had been required any more than it did, I am not sure I would have been able to submit my application through that public internet browser.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago
Another example: a train schedule site that requires the latest approved browser. If you want to travel, first make sure you're not in the middle of nowhere.
- jbj 6y ago
  Talking about the sun ... We got a variant of those credit card sized NFC cards to check in to public transit, the issuer decided that they should have an expiry date. From what I remember reading in local tech news, the logic was that people bend/break them over time, making them have a measurable lifespan. My card actually expired in the middle of the countryside, and phone support just told me to get a replacement in the nearest convenience store. I could have been prepared for this if I had checked the expiry date and put it in my calendar, but how many people do this? btw, apologies for typos in my post above, it went quick, and was typed on touch screen.

by jbj 6y ago

GoblinSlayer 6y ago

Another example: a train schedule site that requires the latest approved browser. If you want to travel, first make sure you're not in the middle of nowhere.

jbj 6y ago
Talking about the sun ... We got a variant of those credit card sized NFC cards to check in to public transit, the issuer decided that they should have an expiry date. From what I remember reading in local tech news, the logic was that people bend/break them over time, making them have a measurable lifespan. My card actually expired in the middle of the countryside, and phone support just told me to get a replacement in the nearest convenience store. I could have been prepared for this if I had checked the expiry date and put it in my calendar, but how many people do this? btw, apologies for typos in my post above, it went quick, and was typed on touch screen.