I'm not thick. I know it doesn't sound like much of a boast, but I'm pretty competent at this whole adulting lark. But it appeared that I had forgotten a 4 digit number I'd set up less than a minute ago! The security guard smiled wearily at me, "It happens to everyone!" She said. Which, [...]

A little rant for this Saturday about a stupid usability problem which will never get fixed.

  • sokkies@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    My pin is also a pattern, recently I paid at a restaurant, and they had a card unit with a touch screen, I suppose for fingerprint reasons; the numbers on the pad were randomised… took me quite a while to remember what my pin number was in tge end

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Don’t come to Korea. Every banking transaction requires you to punch in your PIN at least twice with a randomized numpad. Well actually it’s a 4x3 numpad with 2 spaces randomly inserted into it.

        • edent@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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          2 years ago

          What?! That boggles my mind - and would probably break my brain.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So if all this work was done to determine that the phone layout is simply better than the calculator layout… why the fuck are we still using the calculator layout on anything?

    And screw you OP for bringing this up. Now I want to remap my 10-key to phone layout to see if that’s “better”… I already had important stuff to do this weekend that I’m totally going to ignore now because this irrationally bothers me that I didn’t realize this before.