I 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.
winterbloom•1h ago
the 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
nemomarx•1h ago
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.
SoftTalker•51m ago
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.
eichin•46m ago
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.)
bigfatkitten•43m ago
Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.
iamnothere•14m ago
Key cards/badges don’t have GPS in them and can’t keep tabs on you outside the office.
suprjami•1h ago
When buying a new phone, doesn't everyone sit down and set everything up so it all works when you want it next?
smitty1e•50m ago
The 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.
bborud•42m ago
It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.
fuzzfactor•5m ago
It probably takes more than 12 steps to break habitual phone use all the time too :\
nagonago•1h ago