Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jesus, my son wanted to add a classmate as a friend on Xbox Live last night. It should have been a two step process from a parent perspective: Authenticate, then authorise (though the lad was delegated the task of the latter technically).

  When he tried to add the friend, I had to:

  1. Enter my parental code (fair enough);
  2. Enter my Microsoft Account password because it was apparently a transaction involving personal data;
  3. Scan the QR code to do this on another device (admittedly optional);
  4. Enter the email address of my MS account;
  5. Enter the 2FA code emailed to me;
  6. Stop the passkey creation process;
  7. Confirm that I didn’t want a passkey;
  8. Skip the age verification;
  9. Turn off the personalised ads

  Just so he could get to the point where he could select “add as a friend”, what the actual fuck

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s just MFA on steroids. My government account has less verification lol

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sounds like a process that would be greatly simplified by adding a passkey…

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    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Would it? If I’m already a user on a local device, surely my parental code would suffice and turn a ludicrous process into a one (and a half) step processm

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean you could have both/either…

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    • eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Except that Windows routinely breaks my passkeys :) Use it to login once, works great. Try again the next day, “Something went wrong”. Now I can’t use that 2FA; it never starts working again. Then I have extra steps of trying the passkey, having it fail, logging in on another device, removing the passkey, …

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oof

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Okay, bluetooth disabled for 24 hours.” It’ll turn itself back on tomorrow.

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