The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
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Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#2I appreciate the frustration and ridiculousness of having to use an app just to open a door, but over half of these steps are just things you have to do when you get a new phone anyway.
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#3the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works
it is better than having to carry keys around
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#4When buying a new phone, doesn't everyone sit down and set everything up so it all works when you want it next?
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#5the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works it is better than having to carry keys around
For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#6the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works it is better than having to carry keys around
For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.
You're in a rush in the morning and you leave home without your badge.
Happens to me at least once a month. But I almost never don't have my phone.
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#7The feeling of becoming the product and requiring a Familiar loaded with Apps that amount to passive spyware cannot be escaped.
Very glad to be closing in on retirement.
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#8the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works it is better than having to carry keys around
For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.
it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
For an office door, why not a key card or lanyard badge or whatever? A code? I feel like you could use something easier than an app too.
it's sold as harder to copy (and easier to revoke when you're doing layoffs - which shouldn't have been a really challenge for card-based systems, they're just old and didn't keep up.)
Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.
Re: The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
#10It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.