Reminds me of a cashless hotel laundromat that I had to use that didnt accept coins, tokens or had a credit card reader. So to wash my clothes I had to find a charger to charge my phone, download an app, being able to receive SMS 2FA while roaming which is a hit or miss depending on roaming agreements, having working internet connection, enabling Bluetooth and Bluetooth Nearby Devices, and then top it up with a foreign credit card. It took about 30 minutes to set it up.
I guess this would be easier in a beighbourhood laundromat with local clients, but in a hotel with many foreigners it becomes a pain with so many dependencies needed to use the washer and dryer.
> Imagine you're on vacation and have lost your phone.
A few years ago when SMS tokens and Authenticator apps where less common, I was able to do work without having my phone on the same room as my computer. Now I need to have it on my desk most of the time for logging in.
There are authenticator apps that will run on your computer, and apps that will let you read SMSs on your phone from you computer. You phone might need to be on for the latter, and maybe even connected to the same local network, but it does not have to be literally on your desk.
lol, 小红书 as an idea was established way before facebook.
facebook was just trying to use an adbuster's style approach, but actually during that time there were tons of subversive messages, e.g. mckenzie wark's "hacker manifesto" was commonly read and discussed. that whole hacker-chic is what facebook and PG modeled their entire personality off of. even though they might not have cared about edgy communism back then, the GNU manifesto written 20 years even earlier (and lots of FOSS warriors) certainly did.
even back when facebook had their little print poster shop on their campus, a lot of hackers outside felt really grody seeing this anti-capitalist spirit co-opted by this financial behemoth. it was like every 2 weeks someone would know someone else's small startup get snapped up for $10s of millions here and there. it was like watching the air slowly get sucked out of a party.
