> but a PIN is pretty much ___a password___ in my book.
> Once I figured out that I can use ___a password with Windows___, I stopped using __my PIN__.
Context clues. Read the whole comment. Pretty much immediately after they start talking about PINs and how they're pretty much just passwords, they go to talk about using passwords instead of PINs in Windows. Each sentence isn't its own entirely separate universe devoid of any context of the previous words and sentences.
What PIN do you think they stopped using immediately after referencing their Windows password? Think they stopped using their bank card PIN because they figured out how to go back to full Windows passwords?
So no, they're not speaking generally about all PINs, they're specifically referencing it in the context of Windows accounts.
> Once I figured out that I can use ___a password with Windows___, I stopped using __my PIN__.
Context clues. Read the whole comment. Pretty much immediately after they start talking about PINs and how they're pretty much just passwords, they go to talk about using passwords instead of PINs in Windows. Each sentence isn't its own entirely separate universe devoid of any context of the previous words and sentences.
What PIN do you think they stopped using immediately after referencing their Windows password? Think they stopped using their bank card PIN because they figured out how to go back to full Windows passwords?
So no, they're not speaking generally about all PINs, they're specifically referencing it in the context of Windows accounts.
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