No idea if it’s all the passwords I have to remember, or part of getting older 🤔

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Use a password manager yoooo. I spent half a decade avoiding it and said fk it one weekend and set it up. It takes some time to set it up the first time but it’s the way to go.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      I do. The damn bank website gave me “you can’t reuse passwords try again” on something the password manager generated for me on the first attempt at entering a password, and then the account froze and the bank manager had to unfreeze the account (the teller helping me couldn’t manage to unfreeze it for reasons neither of us understood). I think i have a hell of a knack for breaking computers if that’s a job.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I use a password manager and have still had that happen.

      Pasted from manager, incorrect. Ok, maybe I saved the wrong one… change password, use one saved because I’m too lazy to generate a new one - can’t be same as current. 😑 Fuck you, shit-ass Best Buy website.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s the single biggest quality of life improvement I’ve made in the last 3 years. I wish I had done it sooner (and if anyone reading hasn’t got one yet, Bitwarden is FOSS and can be selfhosted.)

      I actually found it quite fun to go through all my logins and change any shitty passwords, adding them to the password manager as I went. It’s a great quest for when you want to procrastinate from doing something important by doing something that feels productive.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    This reminds me of when USAA would let you enter a longer password on the login screen than was actually possible to set, so if you generated a 14 digit password and pasted it into the password reset, it wasn’t immediately evident that it only took 12. But on login, you could enter all 14 characters and then it’d just say it’s wrong. I’m…90% sure they don’t do that anymore.

    Also, KeyBank used to (or maybe still is? I closed my account years ago) not support case sensitive passwords. So whether your caps lock was on or not, or you alternated upper/lower however you wanted, your password still worked. I think they were converting to lowercase on the back end.

  • GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    This generally occurs when a user enters the correct password, but has a typo in the username. The user is psychologically fixated on the password and overlooks the actual mistake.

    Then, when changing the password, they re-enter the current password and finally discover the password was never the problem.

  • Orphie Baby@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    I know this is an obscure reference, but that last panel is the same as Linkara’s reaction to when in the terrible comic Marville, Spike Lee was revealed to be the Kingpin (of parody-version Marvel).

    ♪ Forgetting yoooouuuu is a thing that I cannot dooooo ♪