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> If they don't have WhatsApp Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp. Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.
Nobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.
When I was really bad at speeding all the time I had this fear I'd go to jail and my cat would die alone in my apt. So I started working on my own dead man switch, I actually have not finished it but I at least bought him like a self-feeding thing that would last a month or more and he unfortunately drinks out of the toilet too so I leave the top cover off. I've recently stopped or working on stopping the triple digi…
please don’t drive that fast (I’m assuming you mean triple digits MPH). It endangers both yourself and others.
I built life-link almost a year ago for the same purpose: https://github.com/ahmedsaoudi/life_link I even created a generator so people can configure it with their Telegram/Pushover settings and have it generate a static app easy to host on Netlify or Clouflare Pages/Workers.
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I get your point, but believe it or not there's more email services than just Gmail
Really, because I’ve been working to move off gmail for 5 years and it’s slim pickings. I’ve tried fastmail, protonmail, outlook and they all suck. Gmail is probably the only google account I still use.
Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?
How will you log into your email from a strange computer without your phone. Gmail has required 2-factor auth for a long time.
No matter what solution you choose you will need to remember something. I have two family members who always answer, so their phone numbers are the only two I know. By dialing them manually now and then I make sure my memory is working.
In the age of AI/voice generators I’ve also told them how I will identify myself. So if being mugged in Kiwiland, and they get a call where I ask them to transfer money they can do so knowing it would only be me making that request as I told them the secret phrase: ”yes, it was me who tipped over the Christmas tree”. Ofcourse not that, but something none of the inner family will ever forget.
I did something similar, just a photo of handwritten phone mumbers and an easy to remember URL that's not indexed. Anyone will hopefully lend you a phone if you're in a pinch but I realized that I don't know very numbers to actually call and it's kinda weird to start using email/Whatsapp whatever on a strangers phone compared to asking to visit one site and make one call
> Anyone will hopefully lend you a phone if you're in a pinch I honestly wouldn't count on it, at least not where I'm from, not anymore anyways. IME, having been in that situation (and knowing the numbers I need to call) it's rare for someone to let a stranger use their personal device for something as mundane as a phone call due to risk of theft, scams, or other criminal behaviour, not just on the part of the person…
Before MFA was mandated on every service this was an easy problem to solve. Now when you lose your phone while out and about you lose your ability to log in to even Dave's Speed Cow Milker's Enthusiast Forum unless you're at home with another computer already logged in to various things.
Do with that information what you will.
Before MFA was mandated on every service this was an easy problem to solve. Now when you lose your phone while out and about you lose your ability to log in to even Dave's Speed Cow Milker's Enthusiast Forum unless you're at home with another computer already logged in to various things.
The QR code that you use to transfer TOTP secrets to a new phone, is static. It never changes (unless you add a new service) and it requires no verification. Do with that information what you will.