Quote from: Pentagrimes on September 07, 2026, 07:52:39 AMEverything being linked to phones.
Mine died last night *in fairness it's about 7 years old, surprised it lasted as long as it did. New phone ordered via the ould Three upgrade, but in the meantime I doscovered when i went to try and move some money around that I can't use Internet banking withoout my phone to confirm my log in. Similarly, couldnt' pay for my order without the ould phone verification. Went to try and download the desktop Whatsapp so I could message family to say my phone was dead and..you guessed it, had to verify using the phone.Aaaargh.

Yeah it is fried when it happens.  Same thing here a few months back, but also I had no photos backed up and use my phone for music/artwork notes & work too so I lost everything.  Got stuck in a boot loop.  Apparently the phone shops can recover the files, so it is still here waiting recovery, but while I was waiting on a new phone I couldn't access anything either.  Purposefully set less up on this phone since (but still need the banking apps to do the things I need).

yep, definitely lost a bunch of photos, thankfully I'd backed up *most of the riff ideas so as to avoid a Kirk Hammet style situation :eyeroll:

Add in the extra layers of verification. Perfect if you work on a computer all day and use various accounts to cross reference against. An utter pain in the ring of you use one phone for everything and you're just about, but not really, computer literate.

Also, dudes driving their cars with no tshirts on. Why on fucking earth...