A login adventure

I just had to sign in to something. It went like this: Autofill username Press Return Click I am a human Choose everything that’s a sock, or something Click Verify Type password Press Return Be told they need to verify it’s me Choose method (email, text, 2FA) Click Next Wait for 2FA code Continue waiting for 2FA code Give up after five minutes, request a new code Code comes in Paste code into form Be told “this code is invalid or expired” Wait for other code to come in Other code comes in Paste this code instead Read blurb about passkeys Go to press (X), but then a system popup loads Dismiss system popup for passkeys Dismiss website page for passkeys Read timeout message Be given login prompt for my username to start again Go frolick in a meadow of flowers instead By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-11-13.

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