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That moment my card got declined at a gas station in Phoenix at 11pm
I was on my way home from a delivery run and my debit card got declined for a $32 fill-up, turned out the bank flagged it as fraud because I had bought gas 3 hours earlier in a different zip code, and it took 45 minutes on hold to get it sorted - has anyone else had a bank's fraud alert cause more problems than it solved?
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kimmurphy3d ago
Man, it's like we have all this fancy technology that's supposed to make life easier, but half the time it just makes simple stuff way harder than it needs to be.
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kim.jake3d ago
Used to be the guy who bought every new gadget thinking it would save me time. But after spending 45 minutes trying to get a smart thermostat to connect to my wifi, only to have it forget the settings the next day, I totally get where you're coming from. Sometimes a simple switch on the wall is just faster and more reliable than any app ever will be.
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robin6282d ago
That thermostat story hits way too close to home. My neighbor got one of those smart fridges that can tell you when you're out of milk, but it locked him out of his own settings for three days because of a software update. You spend hours setting up these things for something that a regular old switch did in half a second. It almost feels like we're beta testing stuff for companies while paying full price for the privilege. Are we really saving time or just making busywork for ourselves?
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