Technology

Jesus, my son wanted to add a classmate as a friend on Xbox Live last night. It should have been a two step process from a parent perspective: Authenticate, then authorise (though the lad was delegated the task of the latter technically).

When he tried to add the friend, I had to:

1. Enter my parental code (fair enough);
2. Enter my Microsoft Account password because it was apparently a transaction involving personal data;
3. Scan the QR code to do this on another device (admittedly optional);
4. Enter the email address of my MS account;
5. Enter the 2FA code emailed to me;
6. Stop the passkey creation process;
7. Confirm that I didn't want a passkey;
8. Skip the age verification;
9. Turn off the personalised ads

Just so he could get to the point where he could select "add as a friend", what the actual fuck

Shutdown doesn't actually turn off the PC anymore. You need to do a restart if you actually want to "shut down" the computer all the way.

I see way too many systems where the CPU has been up for more than 100 days.

modern windows tries to trick you into not doing that. if you hold for a little bit it turns the screen off so you think it's turned off when it really hasn't, then if you hold a little longer it turns the screen back on and tells you to please stop holding the power button, then finally a little after that the computer actually turns off. why the hardware even makes that possible is beyond me