5 comments

  • suprjami 39 minutes ago
    When buying a new phone, doesn't everyone sit down and set everything up so it all works when you want it next?
  • nagonago 45 minutes ago
    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 44 minutes 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 39 minutes 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 31 minutes 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 26 minutes 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 23 minutes ago
          Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.
  • bborud 22 minutes ago
    It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.
  • smitty1e 30 minutes 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.