The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone

The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone(shub.club)

14 points by forthwall 22 days ago | 12 comments

nagonago 22 days 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.

suprjami 22 days ago |

When buying a new phone, doesn't everyone sit down and set everything up so it all works when you want it next?

winterbloom 22 days 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 22 days 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 22 days 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.

iamnothere 22 days ago | | |

Key cards/badges don’t have GPS in them and can’t keep tabs on you outside the office.

eichin 22 days 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.)

apothegm 22 days ago | |

Yeah, that article was silly. Yes, setting up a new phone is a giant annoying exercise in yak shaving, but that’s to be expected when transferring to any device.

That said, I’ve had to unlock a door with a dedicated phone app, and it’s always way too many taps even if the app hasn’t randomly logged you out because your session is a month old or because your phone restarted to store an update. (Even more if you prefer to keep Bluetooth off -which among other things saves on battery.)

fuzzfactor 22 days ago |

It probably takes more than 12 steps to break habitual phone use all the time too :\

bborud 22 days ago |

It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.

smitty1e 22 days 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.