My pin is also a pattern, recently I paid at a restaurant, and they had a card unit with a touch screen, I suppose for fingerprint reasons; the numbers on the pad were randomised.. took me quite a while to remember what my pin number was in tge end
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Oooof! Yeah, I don't think I could cope with that.
So if all this work was done to determine that the phone layout is simply better than the calculator layout... why the fuck are we still using the calculator layout on anything?
And screw you OP for bringing this up. Now I want to remap my 10-key to phone layout to see if that's "better"... I already had important stuff to do this weekend that I'm totally going to ignore now because this irrationally bothers me that I didn't realize this before.
The Dvorak of numpads
Wait until you see number pads that the numbers are shuffled after each use. Good thing it's not common.
Damn just commented the same experience lol
Offtopic, but I really like the Atkinson Hyperlegible font and I'm glad to see it being used here!
Cheers! It is actually a very lightly customised version of Atkinson. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/08/an-update-to-the-atkinson-hyperlegible-font/
Interesting, sometimes I have a black out when I'm paying for groceries and can't simply remember the PIN due to the keypad difference
Is your profile a Pac-Man influenced flyers logo?
Yes it is! :)
There are multiple secured doors at my workplace I have access to, and they all have a little sticker next to the keypad showing a telephone style keypad with the letters. Those are there to remind you of what numbers to press for the four letter word you chose to represent your PIN. When I'm in the security office and choosing a new PIN, because the keyboard numpad is different, I'll ask the person to turn their desk phone around so I can see the numbers to choose my PIN.
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