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There was a little drama in the Altman household recently when my son found himself unable to access Netflix on his Fire tablet because his account had been logged out. My wife had set the password several months ago and I couldn’t remember the email or the specific character set she’d used, which meant no Pokemon before school. I’m sure there’ll be some eye rolls from some of you, but others can probably feel me on this one.

Of course, I’m really no better. I’ve been complaining about the new iOS 10 update on my phone ever since I downloaded it and my wife has been somewhat nonplussed by my frequent trials of the new texting features.