Logging into everything gives me the massive rage. AIBU

[SpocksEyebrows]

I know how I am going to end my days. This is going to be the hill that I die on.

Logging in drives me insane. It literally makes me incandescent with rage. Maybe it is just my household. My DH likes technology with everything. I reckon I spend a good proportion of my life "logging in".

Here is a real example. I want to listen to the radio. I have to:

Login to the computer with password
Get BBC Radio up
Asked for login and password
Pull up 1Password which also involves logging in.
Copy and paste login
Copy and paste password.
Go into drop down box and select speakers I want radio to come out with.

This process takes about 3 minutes. If I then talk away from the computer for more than a minute I then have to log in again.

Repeat process if I want to watch a movie on Netflix or iTunes and other stuff with accept cookies, blah blah blah.......

What happened to - go over to radio, turn knob on, perhaps move knob a bit to get to different frequency, music comes out?

Honestly, this is the hill I am going to die on.

I have an real radio on my bedside table (my alarm clock). DS (20mo) has helpfully retuned it to static and does so every time I set it to an actual station. It's a lot easier to ask Alexa to play the radio - or, even better, Spotify, so I'm listening to something that I actually like.

Can you get better technology that you don't have to log into?

Yes, tech rage. That's what I've got.

Sadly we are going in the direction of needing to remember more and more logins/passwords.

My iPhone 11 recognises my face so I don't have to log in to anything...

Just autosave the passwords!! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I remember when I could watch TV just by turning it on.

You can still do that. Freeview still exists, you know.

@userxx yes the dot does have wires.

Your pc doesn't offer to remember your passwords?

Bbc iPlayer and bbc Sounds give me the rage. Repeatedly asked to sign in, accept cookies and confirm I have a tv licence - even after ticking the ‘remember me’ option every time.

I hate it too. I've set up everything for auto login on Chrome. If my computer gets stolen I'm fucked.

You sound like my dh after an encounter with internet banking 😂.

However I do get mildly frustrated working from home using iPad and laptop and see to be continually either putting in the iPad or laptop password, logging back on to the vpn after its gone down yet again, logging into the confidential notes system, and then doing all of the above again every time I have been away for two minutes.

At least you have fingers to login with, give your head a wobble will ya?

I couldn’t live like that OP.

We’re probably dinosaurs too.

Just have a free view tv. iPhone and that’s it. Don’t really “do” devices with the kids we’re too busy in the garden, or playing with toys and books..... paper books! The only time I can see how a kindle might be useful is for travel. Otherwise I want to have the actual physical book in my hand.

YADNBU OP

This is our doorbell: sometimes old technology is the best (although ironically, it actually took some very tricky DIY to get it installed and working reliably). And many callers don't actually pull the bell - they just bang on the door!

I totally agree; passwords for everything, and total rage with them. I hesitate to do online shopping in case I have to do the dreaded task of "creating an account": I have actually abandoned purchases when it's been too arduous. I have a password system where my password includes the name of the website, which makes things easier for me to have different ones.

Also the way that computers interrupt and nag you all the time: update your virus protection, those bloody full-page cookie warnings, and worst of all is when you pick up your laptop to use it, and it says "installing updates..." It almost makes you long for the days of that sodding paperclip saying "It looks as if you're writing a letter, do you need help?"; or even the Amstrad PCW of the 1980s. Computers were slow and limited in their capability then, but at least they felt more like your servants, rather than the other way round.

Oh god it gives me the rage as well. My computer at work, there are about 10 systems that we need to log in to. I inevitably forget one of the passwords of the systems that I don't use that regularly, so have to change it. Pretty much every time I need to use it.Tried to change it the other day and it refused my new password, saying "you cannot use a password that has been one of your last 10 passwords". How am I meant to know what all of my last ten passwords are and therefore avoid using them?? I can't even remember the password that I used for this system a couple of weeks ago, so come on! Am I meant to go round and round in a perpetual cycle of creating passwords, only to be told that I've used every single one and to 'try again'??

Can you tell this makes me angry

Yes the dot does have a wire for the power plug. However, it controls so many of the other devices in the home, it really reduces the amount of other stuff you need. No radio needed. Connects and controls other speakers and TV and lights. Gives weather/need updates, reads recipes etc etc.

I was sceptical at first, due to the whole spying argument but it really simplifies things (especially when my hands are physically full dealing with DC).

Also, what kind of phone do you have? Surely it should be auto-storing your passwords for most sites?

Yes it's crap. You need a password to do everything now. You even need an app to pay the ruddy milkman. Hate it all. I like books, diaries you write in, real objects to touch and feel.

Same password for everything. Done.

Oh dear god...

Yes, do that, if you don't mind being hacked, have all of your money stolen, all of your details stolen etc.

Do you know what it takes to have an actual safe, secure password that wouldn't be cracked within minutes? At the very least 16 characters long, with caps and lowercase, numbers and special characters.

For example: The$imps0ns&G@m3ofThr0n3s

Easy to remember really as well. Pick 2-3 things you like and change the characters in there. You get the picture.

If you use something like password123, your password will be cracked in roughly 0.1 of a second. Well quicker really, but you get the idea. You've got no hope.

Realistically though any password could be hacked if you use powerful enough equipment and wait long enough, but no hacker bothers. They want easy wins. Using the same password is so stupid.

Using passwords is annoying. But the other option is losing your security, money, details etc. Pick one.

@letsgomaths

How gorgeous is that! Love it.

@Truthpact Do you have any easy "formula" for coming up with multiple passwords that you don't/can't forget?

xkcd.com/936/

Ha ha ! I’ll join you to die in this hill- and admit it’s why I don’t update stuff that is perfectly useable. Yes I have an old fashioned radio and yes for apps I couldn’t give a fig if someone else logs in, I use the same basic log in and get the phone to remember it - I’m looking at you mumsnet and ravelry. So long as I’ve no financials associated with either the app or password than I don’t see the problem.
What rally gives me the arse is apps that say they will remember you if you click here , which I do..... and then they don’t sodding remember me .... ARGHHHH

Yanbu.
I will lose my shit about it.
I've written down all my non essential log ins but it still means digging out my notes every bloody time something resets or updates. Work is nightmare too.
It makes me feel quite weepy when I think about it the .

@BinkyBoinky

Pick things that you like for starters. Like in my example I picked two TV shows.

Easiest way really to remember them is to store them in a password store on your computer, such as keepass. It's free and safe to use, although you'll have to think of a password to use to secure it as well.

Really though it's repetition, like how you remember anything else. You could put something like 'B@nk' at the start of your password to let you know that it's for your bank account, so with my example it would be:

B@nk&The$imps0ns&G@m3ofThr0n3s

Gives you a very long password and you know what it's for.

I then remembered how incredibly privileged I was to have wires. In a house. And decided if I ever got that mad with wires again id go straight back to Africa

@mrsspooky May I ask what you mean here?