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A pal of mine recently opened a twitter account, so now his "name" in my address book, and therefore in every comms app, is his twitter ID.
All I've found on-line is that a lot of people are p1ssed off about this.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Best way to use android is, turn off account sync before doing 'any' account login on phone.
Settings -> Account.
BTW, you've still not seen email address in your phone book..!!!!! 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A pal of mine recently opened a twitter account
Well, there's your problem!
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Yup,I've gotta get a better class of friend!
If they know what class is it would be advantageous
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I dunno, I got an Android sex robot off a Japanese website the other day....
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iPhone is the same thing. Possibly worse at times when a person replies to an account but the person you are replying to actually sends you email from one time and a text another, then things get all weird.
My friend mentioned it from his iPhone that I was showing up as a screen name from my amazon account in his iPhone. I have no idea how that all got connected on his iPhone.
I believe you meant why "technology" sucks today.
You luddite!! 
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When I do something wrong, they blame the computer - but when the computer goes wrong, they blame me?
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With me whatever goes wrong they blame me...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You must be married...
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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The Engineer's Dilemma
It's not my place to run the train
The whistle I can't blow.
It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.
It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.
-- unknown
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I finally got fed up, and since I failed my last annual eye test I decided to replace my three pairs of glasses: walk/drive, computer, and reading - all different distance and I always had the wrong ones on - with a single pair and go back to varifocals.
And I'd forgotten how much of a PITA they were in the early days. Picked them up this morning, my peripheral vision is permanently blurry, and I have to move my head about to get what I am looking at in the "sweet spot". Worst bit is the distance: while it's nice to be able to read road signs and what the car's computer is telling me I have to dip my head more than I'm used to to see where I'm going comfortably. And the computer? Nice and clear where I'm looking, but unless I sit right back in my chair, the other monitor is pretty much invisible. Which might be good in the long run in terms of posture... :sigh.
I know it will improve in a couple of days as I get used to it, but at the moment it's a PITA!
How many of us lot here use glasses / contacts / binoculars these days?
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OriginalGriff wrote: contacts
It is for me, but I have glasses as a "backup".
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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I wear spectacles. 
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Real men wear monocles!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Two of them!
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I just make a spectacle of myself.
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I have glasses (and used contact lenses for a short time, but didn't liked them) since I was 16...
As today I'm technically blind to anything not moving when without them...
Can read books from a distance of 15-20 cm (stuck in my face), but the monitor is only a colorful stain even with 500% zoom (the max Chrome offers)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 8-May-17 10:04am.
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I guess by varifocals you mean what some call progressive? Yeah I hated my first pair of progressives. I really had to "aim" for the sweet spot. Even turning my neck when reading across the screen.
After several years, when getting my second pair, I had figured it and it was to allow the "reading zone" a bit less-than-perfect, that made the sweet spot so much sweeter. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The blue/purple tint they have looks great though. 
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Matches his rinse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes and they look great on his long wet nose.
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I'm wearing glasses since the age of 14 (short-sighted).
I got my first varifocals 10 years ago but never got really satisfied with them. So I'm still using less strong glasses for reading and PC work - or even no glasses for short (< 40 cm) distances.
Plus two sun glasses for driving and reading.
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I've been wearing glasses (short sighted) since age 6. I now have two pairs - one for long distance (driving etc.) and one for reading/computer work.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm thankfully okay to a range of about 5 feet, but it goes to hell after that.
I like the Oakley frame arm design because I can comfortably shift them to the top of the head for reading/computer work, and back down for anything else.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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