a new sad me @ a_new_sad_me @lemmy.world

I'm a man, from Israel.

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It's a shared office space, so I'm not really concerend about security. And they didn't say anything about the card, just gave it to me. I discovered yesterday that one of the door is not even locked. As I said in another post, I think that the door thing is mostly for show and not for actual security.

About why not putting it on the belt, well, it's not about (dis)comfort as much as refusing to make my job a part of what defines me. And this tag is related to the job.

I'm sharing that pain with you.

On hot summer days, like now. I can find myself up for 2-3 hours due to the discomfort.

True... I confused the term, but this makes my question even more relevant. Since I have to put the card on the reader, I guess that it is an NFC card, rather than RFID. Which means that I should be able to duplicate the signal with my phone. I think.

I'll reply here also to @ratumoko@kbin.social - the building security is a joke. The company rents some offices in these share-space buildings. And there is no real security beyond that (OK, fine, also some cameras). I suspect that they use this system just to keep costumers happy, feeling like there is some security system in place. I'll try the RFID ring and see if it works.

But my "real" question here is how come I didn't find any app/instruction for making my phone itself an RFID keycard. As I type this I realize that this might be due to needing a specific frequency that the phone cannot produce(?)

That's the technology they use: https://nfc-tools.github.io/resources/standards/iso14443A/

I see that my phone should support encoding NFC tags. I'll order a cheep ring and see if it works. Thanks.

I'm still curious though, why cannot phones produce that signals on their own? Isn't this what they do with payment apps?

Wouldn't that interfere with payment apps?

Nova launcher. It is the only one I manage to configure so the app drawer is opened via macrodroid (almost) only.

When the remote controls were first invented.

In a world where remotes are scarce, I could see how this would be a concern, yes.

I've started using orgzly + synching in the last few weeks. I think that this will give you what you need.

The question is what can you do when it is in that situation?

They could, use, but this requires extra work from the user, who might just say "nah... I'll just use the official app instead"

Ha! Cool for them!

I guess, though, that the guys who have the skills to enjoy this are the first to switch out of reddit to begin with.

Without looking into any information, I can guess that it is associated with API key which are registered to a specific email. Sure, you can open more email accounts and more APIs but this is becoming a hustle.

What they could do, is release their code, and for user to register their own API and compile the app on their own. But this solution would answer only tech savi people.