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Accidental Tech Podcast

481: Accidentally Made It Too Good

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 131 minutes

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0:00.0

Yes, I was a few minutes late today because I was battling with broken computer stuff.

0:06.2

Oh, oh me too.

0:08.2

No, not that kind of broken computer stuff.

0:12.4

The kind of broken. I should, I didn't know not to do this right before. I was supposed

0:15.8

to record a podcast, but whatever. My son is setting up his account at his college.

0:22.1

He's selected a college. He's enrolled. Oh, congrats.

0:24.3

You know, get to get to your set up your computer account, right? And I wanted to go through it

0:28.3

and make sure everything was all right or whatever and do all this stuff.

0:32.0

And the account made him set up two factor, whatever. I don't know what asked him to set up two

0:35.6

factor and he did. And he used the Google Authenticator app because it's an app that he had used

0:39.8

previously. I think we're two factors stuff. But anyway, he had it on his phone and he did that.

0:44.4

But I wanted to get it set up in the Apple two factor thing because it's nice when you're in

0:48.4

Safari or on your Mac or like the Apple has people who don't know. The Apple has a thing in

0:54.0

there, sort of an iCloud keychain thing where it can do two factor stuff for you. You don't have

0:58.6

to launch a separate app or whatever will auto fill right in the thing out of your iCloud keychain.

1:03.6

That's what I wanted to set up for because yes, you can have the Google Authenticator app that

1:06.7

would be nice for also it to be integrated with iOS and macOS and all that of the stuff.

1:14.1

Seems like a simple task. It is technically possible, technically 100% possible,

1:19.1

but frustratingly annoying to do. So here are the two things. First of all, this wouldn't,

1:26.6

I wouldn't be angry and late if it wasn't for the fact that the school's thing is broken.

1:31.6

Right. So that's the first problem. The first problem is definitely not your fault, John.

1:36.2

Definitely. I'll tell you how the school thing is because the school thing is broken in a

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