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I don't have a cell phone, because I consider that the costs outweigh the benefits. Recently I started experiencing more often the effects of people assuming th
by apricot 3y ago
I don't have a cell phone, because I consider that the costs outweigh the benefits. Recently I started experiencing more often the effects of people assuming that everybody has a cell phone.
* I couldn't scan QR codes at restaurants to see the menu, after the pandemic. The server was able to find an old paper menu but warned me that prices had changed, and I had to order without seeing the new prices. This is less of a problem now as most restaurants went back to paper menus.
* My place of work recently installed 2FA that assumes we are always near a phone, and they don't want to provide an alternative such as a yubikey, so I cannot log on to the network unless I'm at my office or at home (where I have a landline).
* I use a car-sharing service and they want to switch to an "app-only" system for booking cars, which I guess will require me to install some kind of Android virtual machine on my computer.
Truth be told, those are minor annoyances in the grand scheme of things.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> My place of work recently installed 2FA that assumes we are always near a phone, and they don't want to provide an alternative such as a yubikey, so I cannot log on to the network unless I'm at my office or at home (where I have a landline). That's over the line regardless. If work wants to use a phone, they can provide a phone.
- BizarroLand 3y agoGiven how glacially many companies move, especially small-med companies outside of tech hotspots, they would probably rather fire OP than add a cell phone reimbursement plan to their pay.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoOf course, only after having established evidence against the individual which speaks to the actual reason they were fired; they wouldn't want employment regulators to get the impression that the termination of employment was in retaliation to these valid complaints. More seriously, if one wants to make a stink about this sort of policy, this is what they need to worry about. I don't want to tell someone they're wrong for choosing not to worry about this and, in OP's case, accept the inconvenience of using a landline for 2FA.
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- Animats 3y ago> QR codes at restaurants to see the menu QR code menus are bad enough. Worse is outsourced QR code menus that try to force you through an onboarding process so they can spam you.
- low_common 3y agoDude these are huge annoyances and you must not get out of the house much if you think otherwise. Or you're just old; which is fine I guess.
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- apricot 3y agoI'm probably older than you are, which means I have more experience gauging the annoyance level of various events.