I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

@vkc im not even old fashioned, im literally 18, yet i still prefer regular password auth over this

@ElliesSurviving
You can be old fashioned without actually being old... (Any other variant would mean I'm old, and I'm not even pushing 30! Maybe I'm poking 30 gently with a stick, but it's still a stick of respectable length!)
@vkc

@ozzelot @vkc fair point, i mean in terms of that i guess you could say i am pretty old fashioned when it comes to certain things especially with technology

@ElliesSurviving
Wanting to control your tech and not having it listen to you at all times is apparently old fashioned now (as noted during a recent interaction with my aunt's new fancy car with some voice controls... next time I'm taking the bus.)
@vkc

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

@ElliesSurviving
Wanting to control your tech and not having it listen to you at all times is apparently old fashioned now (as noted during a recent interaction with my aunt's new fancy car with some voice controls... next time I'm taking the bus.)
@vkc

@ElliesSurviving
Apparently saying "hey (car), set the temp to this many degrees" is more convenient than having a knob that you just know from memory where you want it... I disagree with that, but eh, not my car. And never shall it be.

(Not a Tesla btw.)
@vkc

@ozzelot @vkc i dont drive and sometimes im quite thankful for that seeing how modern cars are, i dont want everything done electronically via voice commands or a central touchscreen, id prefer buttons, knobs and dials, if a car (or really any technology) can hear me (and it has to in order to do voice commands) without my explicit permission (usually to make a phone call, video call, or a voice message/voicemail, i dont have any other need) thats just a major red flag to me

@ElliesSurviving
I'd drive some old clunker (and maintain the thing) if I had to - but I never even had a licence
@vkc

@ozzelot @vkc yeah saying the command (and having it hear you incorrectly about 5 times at least) is apparently more convenient than just a turn of a knob

"But Veronica! Why don't you just click the link?"

Because I'm often not signed in to that email provider! "Hang on, let me dig out my phone" is friction, which for some folks might be welcome! But I'm ancient and prefer the old fashioned password prompt, which can sync across all devices without cookies.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

@vkc that does seem very annoying.

If you don't mind me suggesting an alternative... I signed up once and have been using their RSS feed ever since which gives the whole articles, not just headlines. No login required.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

@dacmot I routinely use RSS but not on every device, frequently enough I come across a link organically and run into these messes!

@admin I use a service to generate fake emails for this sort of thing, it's awesome! I can always tell *exactly* who sold my email to folks, or where email leaks came from.

I almost never give out my real email to anyone other than a human I know in the real world.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.