When once I was deregistered from an address (Abmeldung), the German bank instantly went apeshit hysterical with "Are you American?" letters. At least half dozen of them ignoring all of my previous responses or feedback. Of course I have nothing to do with US and none of my personal details indicate that I do, I'm fully EU person.
I know that their marketing is strong and their low end instances are cheap but once they started sending me letters over their domain robot and web console access sometime around year 2015 I noped the fuck away and I'm a happy person. One simply cannot receive quality digital service in a country where letters and faxes are sent back and forth, and where 2FA means dedicated buggy and flaky mobile app.
To be honest both cases are equally strong. Trademark by a bank, and English gerundial suffix. I want to see their lawyers knife fight in a ring while burning piles of cash, it would be an entertaining self resolving problem!
Nope. Corporations love to usurp common names and symbols. At some point vain and idle executive board and CXX have a meltdown and decide to "make a statement". Oracle, here, apple, alphabet, magenta color, orange (color and word)...
In at least one EU country the only available free of charge second factor of 2FA at ING is their FULL MOBILE BANKING APP. You're posting a comment at HN explaining that "mobile banking app is 2FA because security because EU", are you working there?
Mobile app is already first class citizen at ING in some EU countries. One is unable to make transactions or even is locked out completely from all online channels after losing access to their mobile app, or if their app simply stops responding on tapping the "Confirm" button. Web is merely second class citizen. No idea how they arrived to this retarded architectue. Submitting any kind of architectural feedback to a bank is hopeless and helpless, these fuckers always know better.
What pisses me off is that they advice to do the same in my country when I complain about leaflets from Lidl, Kaufland, Rossmann and others. Take your silly practices back to Germany, I don't need to label my postbox NOT TO RECEIVE your spam over here. "No spam" is the default without any label.
Do Not Track is a silly nuance in Germany because the IP address is fully identifying there and the ISP contract owner takes full responsibility for anything happening behind it. Nothing to be excited about legal trolls burning public money on fighting LinkedIn in courts. XING is not going to happen, stop trying. Every "privacy" fart coming out of Germany is their predatory media publishers and copyright trolls unable to accept that internet exists.
TBH to me it feels like all the money in this world is spent on fancy cars, houses, and yachts. Anything funded from taxes, insurances, or contributions is basically "the limits are exhausted, the waiting times are in months, your case is not covered". Meantime all the cars and houses I see while driving and walking around? Wow.
So I had been flying private jets, buying real estate, giving away millions, living in Bahamas, had a girlfriend even.... and one day it all disappeared!
Two remotes was the moment I stopped watching TV altogether at third of her age.
Am I pointing the right device? Is the battery in any of them out? Is the bloody device not reacting of just waking up? The cable box is connected to the TV aux or it's a "smart" one connected to one of the HDMI aux'es? All this mess to watch mostly ads.
> If you can't afford to pay for an IDE then your employer should get out of software development.
That's my most workplaces. After cut-throat technical recruitment process with complexity and data structures smartasses, I thought they must be great workplaces with the best tools. Then on the first day in the office "IDE?! no we have no budget for it, why don't you write code in the new message window of outlook?"
> Samsung won't update the Galaxy S8 any more and my bank decided it was too old to run their app.
Just had a similar problem. My bank's iOS app didn't react for "confirm" button so I removed it which resulted with completely locking me out of online banking. Now I'm waiting for a bloody letter. The stale mobile duopoly, mobile as a first class citizen and web as a second class, plus "securitay" practices of banking are an infuriating experience.
Had Lumia 620 for as long as it was viable to have one. Wasn't jealous if iPhones at all and Android was a misery in comparison. Poor selection of apps but also no parasitic gambling and micropayment apps, the absolute minimum of apps was there. I missed the tinder revolution though.