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The 14 steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone I recently got a new phone after my last phone was kinda destroyed…and realized to get into my office I would need to download an app to get in. There’s no physical keys given out, so I gotta do a few things. Simple enough but first I’d have to… - Download the app - Sign in to the app, the app only has magic links, no password, so gotta go to a browser and sign into my email -

The 14 steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone I recently got a new phone after my last phone was kinda destroyed…and realized to get into my office I would need to download an app to get in. There’s no physical keys given out, so I gotta do a few things. Simple enough but first I’d have to… - Download the app - Sign in to the app, the app only has magic links, no password, so gotta go to a browser and sign into my email - My email requires a username and password that I don’t actually know, it’s stored in a password manager that syncs between devices - Download password manager - Open up another device to sync the passwords - Log into email, but before that , the email needs a two-factor authentication with an OTP generated in google authenticator - Download authenticator and get the new OTP - Finally log in to my email, find the email, now the door can be unlocked - Unlock the door… But wait…it’s a new phone, and there’s no wifi near the building, so I also need to: - Log into my cellphone provider, again, needs an OTP, but this time to my email, fortunately I already have logged into that - Get OTP from email, actually login - Swap my cell number to a new device, (un)fortunately I did not set up device protection, so I actually could transfer the phone number really easily, just a click of a button, nothing else - Activate the device and wait for cell reception - …actually unlock the door It’s honestly funny that I had to do all those steps to unlock the front door, if only they just gave me a physical key, I would've been at work on time! Its good I didn't need to urgently open it :))
OTP (ORG) login - Swap (ORG)
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