Lol my mom taught me to never trust ATM machines and always go inside the branch.

Also for gas stations, never pay at the pump, always go inside to pay…

search “[Carrier Name] default SIM PIN”

if you get it wrong twice, then just forget about it (max 3 attempts), I mean just be careful and don’t let your phone get stolen lol

(Or if you have the PUK (its on the back of the plastic card that comes with your SIM Card (for physical SIMs)) you can just get it wrong 3 times then use the PUK to reset the PIN)

I have this memory of getting a 3x3 Rubik’s cube from mom for… I think either X-Mas or New Years… Not sure if “favorite” but definitely most memorable…

I think this is the only time I didn’t have to “beg” for stuff… usually I only get stuff if I really nagged my parents a lot… and my requests get denied frequently (cuz money issues being a new immigrant) but this time I kinda just mentioned “I want that magic cube thing that I had before, I wanna solve it now”, I mentioned it like with the past two weeks, and she just went ahead and got one for me… (but its those cheap ones with the weird stickers that would eventually fall off… I kinda destroyed it cuz I’m bad at keeping stuff lol, like I broke or lost a lot of things I had) But hey, she didn’t get it because I begged, she actually wanted me to be happy… like that felt more emotional, more like a real gift than just being a “bribe” to keep me quiet and stop being annoying.

That was during my… I think early teen years, and before that I had a cube in my early childhood like at least few years before, can’t remember much about those earlier cubes I had except as a memory of recalling another memory.

I used to closer to her… I think I just got older and… um… life expectations (careers, sucess, expectation of being able to be independent and acquire wealth and win this game of capitalism)

That feels worse…

At least you can change a phone number

How do you change your personal info? Its permanent and unchanging… One databreach and you’re fucked

Soon on TERF Island:

They’re gonna have AI cameras to detect if you “went to the right gender bathroom”, and if AI decrees that you’ve entered the wrong one, they’ll flag you as a “sex offender”, then activate the terminators posted at the store to “eliminate sex offenders”

All bank accounts require a phone number. VOIP numbers does not work.

Online banking through a computer requires a phone number for them to send a 2fa code to before letting you log in. (Phone number 2fa is the only 2FA option, and even if not, its often used as a recovery option to whatever other 2fa method there is, effectively making the phone number the weakest link)

But I guess if you don’t like that, you could tell them to disable online banking and avoid using electronics for banking, but then you’d have to either go to the bank every week and wait in an annoying line to verify you’re getting paid and that the amount is correct (cuz you can’t trust employers)

(Or use the sketchy ATM machine that could have card skimmers and fake PIN pads, can sometimes be much more dangerous than online banking IMO)

(Also some people need online banking like my parent have a small bussiness and my mom has to do a bunch of bank transfers every month through online banking…)

SIM PINs are 4-8 digits

The SIM Chip itself is supposed to limit entry attempts to 3, idk if anyone managed to bypass it

After that, it required a PUK Code, 8 digits I believe. Its sometimes found on the big plastic card thing (its like the size of a credit card, and you pop off a physical sim from it). 10 Attempts.

I think the carrier also has it.

So an attacker needs to either:

1. Guess the SIM PIN in 3 tries
2. Somehow hack the chip to bypass the limits
3. (a) Obtain the plastic card thing or (b) Social engineering to get customer support to provide PUK (I mean if they can manage to trick customer support, they could probably just get a new eSIM (which is immediately issued to their phone through the internet) anyways
   or
4. Somehow guess a 8 digit code in 10 tries

The thing is, I as a kid/teen messed with tech stuff a lot (got my parents SIM cards locked a few times 👀, they got so mad at me lol) and I found that sometimes I can reboot a phone and the 10 attempts on the PUK code would reset… idk how, maybe the SIM card had issues… or maybe it’s a T-Mobile issue.

Offtopic but:

OMG I can just imagine if my mom gave birth to another kid who grew up in the US and only spoke English, mom’s English would be like: “Go where come back?” (去邊度返來啊？)

Lol that sound so weird to a native English speaker but that makes complete sense in my multilingual brain xD

(“Where did you just come back from?” would probably be a more grammatically correct translation)

Who the fuck buys calandars? We get them for free at the Asian Supermarket lmfao.

My parents get like at least 5 of those every year lmfao

so many calandars that can literally ward off evil spirits (cuz red color all over it, and the big character 福 on it… and also a bunch of new year stuff on it)

G.E.M.【單行的軌道 One Way Road】

No subtitles, but quick search for English Lyrics: Here

Has the word “Train” in it. MV has train. This qualifies???

I just randomly came across this song not too long ago xD

(Not really about trains per se, but more of used as a metaphor)

It’s an object, that’s flying, and you haven’t identified it…

So it’s a UFO

What happens when it lands tho? A ULO? (Unidentified Landed Object???)

You are being bombarded by BROTHERLY LOVE

Please do not resist

🚁
💣
🏘️💥

His last question before getting banned was: “AITAH if I don’t feel anything about my best friend’s dying child?” 💀

Lemmy told me that I’d get kidnapped by ICE the moment a non-white person stepped outside…

I went to a post office in a predominently white neighborhood to apply for a passport (earliest available appointment cuz cities are always filled), the guy working at the post office was a brown guy with an “Indian Accent” (which I did not expect to be working in a white neighbood btw).

I’m ethnically Chinese and did not get harassed by anyone… Lemmy would have you believe there are lynch mobs and white-hooded KKK people trying to shoot you on sight, did not happen…

Also none of my family had been harassed by ICE yet… I heard some relatives and friends of my parent’s social circle cross the border just fine… my aunts be going on vacations and cruises… (my parents so jealous of their wealth and keep telling me “why can’t you be like them” 😭)

That being said, maybe me being Chinese and not Hispanic/Latino made the risks lower, not trying to invalidate the fears that other more vulnerable communities might face.

THE POLICE BOMBED A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD!

Not me but:

Brooo omg my older brother SLEPT in the bathroom of a warehouse for TWO HOURS 🤣

Like dude hid in a stall and just… wait how the fuck can you even sleep in the position?

He never got caught lol

My mom was like: “They’re gonna catch you slacking and then drag you out jn front of everyone to humiliate you”

Mom told me that back in China, they micromanage every employee and you could never get away with being “afk” for 2 hours lmfao…

But is a big place in that warehouse so its hard to notice someone gone for 2 hours…

Then they started doing bathroom signout sheets… like wtf… are we still in K-12 school??? (it’s a unionized place too not sure whats going on now lol)