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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Yeah I've been thinking this more and more. Losing a phone now means losing access to everything

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you have any tech literate friends, you can all install Syncthing and quickly each create a personal push-only share. Then everyone you know is helping each other backup their password manager databases or anything else locally encrypted with a strong password that's small enough to be acceptable. Micro SD cards are 1.5 and even 2TiB now, and work with my 4 year old Xiaomi phone.

I'm thinking of the WeChat recovery option that just makes a couple people you had in your friends list or were your main contacts open a menu in settings and confirm you contacted them (I think IRL), in order to verify the recovery request.

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