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The optimal solution is thus:

"What's your wifi password?"

"It's written right there on the fridge"

"oh, I have to get up from my table, carry my laptop over to your fridge and attempt to type in the password without dropping anything?"

(I have a horrible short term memory and struggle with short phrases)

You don’t talk like this when you are invited somewhere? You do ?

I internally think this every time I bring my laptop to a cafe and the barista points at a 'cute' wifi password sign (or bathroom unlock code).

I have solved this (and a surprising number of similar problems) by pulling out the powerful camera I carry everywhere and taking a picture of the text I would otherwise need to remember.

I have an iPhone 13Pro Max and this solution is cumbersome.

When I walk back to my desk, my phone locks (due to time out or intentional habit of keeping it locked). Then I have to tap buttons to unlock phone, launch the photo app, and find the image I just took. Then I have to spend time later to delete the image.

iOS has OCR on images. I can copy and paste the password from the photo, but still not as efficient as no or simple password, since I must still deal with locking.

Perhaps, this is better on android.

a clay tablet perhaps?

Is Face ID so terrible? I'm still on iPhone 8 with fingerprint reader and unlocking is not something I notice, it's absolutely smooth.

I use FaceID and it works well (even with a mask), but you still have to tap to find the Photos app and then the image you just took.

Open camera (swipe from up side, then swipe from right side), click on latest photo in the corner, swipe if necessary. I very rarely open photos app.

that is exactly my point: lots of tapping, when a simple verbal easy to memorize password is requires no extra typing.

If someone wasn't smart enough to realize they could take the piece of paper off the fridge, I'm not sure they'd be able to operate a computer

Is that an O or a 0?

I would never write something so ambiguous.

Return to monke:

    password123

The password is “1234”?! That’s the kind password an idiot would have on their suitcase!

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

Is that a 0 or a Ø?

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