When smart watches were begining to be a thing, a friend of mine bought a smartwatch for like 5$ in Ali express. When I asked him how the watch is he said “I am surprised that even for this low price, they still managed to disappoint me”

The search being free is half the reason. Or maybe 1/3. The other reasons are that in plenty of cases it takes more than when I’m trying to understand something and I’m not sure what (like, today, I was trying to understand how the circuit of sewing machine pedal works) and I had to do several searches in order to figure that out since I wasn’t even sure what is the right term.

The other one is that I’m not native English speaker, and often, I search for a term in one language, then the other. Or I need to do a search, just in order to find the right term.

They estimate that a Google user searches 3/4 times a day.

Whut?

I probably do 3/4 searches an hour. Including while I’m sleeping.

I tried but the browser just ignore my request. I saw in the other reply, that this is an issue of font fingerprints.

Ohh…

This is most probably it. Thank you.

My work is using Google drive for Sync/back up so that is covered by them.

Personal data is automatically synched (syncthing) between three computers in different rooms in my home + some of the files is copied to my phone and tablet. I consider adding also an online server for further redundancy

This, all those comments about rent and such are wrong. I mean, they are right, but they are wrong. The main reason that prices in the city are high (including why rent in the city is high) is that people are willing to pay that price. Nothing else. Stop paying 20shmekels on avocado beer, the price of avocado beer will go down.

Do you have a starting place? All I’ve found is instructions for copying NFC tags.

I scanned the card using an app “NFC tools” It sais that it is manufactured by NXP and the protocol is MiFares 1k. Guess this hould work.

I think I should give more information about how security works in Israel. Unless you work in a really classified work (I mean NSA level of classified) noone is going to give a fuck about what you do (until something bad happens and then they’ll come down on you). I’m not really concerned about that. I talked to my boss about it and he told me “hmm… it’s worth trying”.

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.

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?

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.