Can’t or won’t?
PS: Rob might be referring to the “approve sign-in” functionality, where you have to confirm by tapping the number shown on the monitor on your mobile (which is not TOTP).
Yes this is correct, I have to enter a number to be able to log in.
The desktop is more like a luxury for me, as I mainly only rely on it for doing backups. My work isn’t a desk job, so I’m lucky to get an hour a day in front of my desktop. I am normally in meetings or organizing events, so I’m mainly with my iPad. My most common use for the desktop is to join Zoom meetings while I take notes on the iPad.
I also travel a lot - for example I just got back from 2 weeks in the Middle East. I had no issues whatsoever living without my desktop and only using my iPad during that time. I could have used Jump Desktop, as my backups machine is always on, but I didn’t need to once.
I do the same with a corporate client so iPhone Mirroring eliminates a tiny bit of friction here
I am in the EU so I can only dream of iPhone mirroring, it’s never getting released here from the looks of things.
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Ouch, sorry didn’t mean to poke at that wound!
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And you have apps, etc. that aren’t allowed in the US. Too bad the company that makes a great OS isn’t as great as could be. 
Come on Apple. Offer everyone the same devices, with the same features, and the same App Store.
Johnny Cash would have written a song about it if he knew!
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Johnny Cash would have written a song about it if he knew!
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The Man Who Reset in Black: A Song in the Style of Johnny Cash (Courtesy of Claude.ai) 
(Verse 1) I was standing in a parking lot, the sun was going down, With a little phone in my big right hand, no terminal around. They said it couldn’t be done, son, not from a thing that small, But I logged into that AS/400 and I answered duty’s call.
(Chorus) I reset that password, Lord, I reset it clean, On the smallest screen that mainframe had ever seen. Not because I had to — no, there wasn’t any rush, I just wanted to find out if that old green beast would blush.
(Verse 2) It was an iPhone 5S — or maybe a 6S, I forget, But the AS/400 didn’t know the difference, and it ain’t complained yet. I pecked those commands out one finger at a time, On a keyboard made for texting, not for mainframe paradigm.
(Chorus) I reset that password, Lord, I reset it clean, On the smallest screen that mainframe had ever seen. Not because I had to — no, nobody made a fuss, I just had to know if a man could tame that bus.
(Bridge) Now some men climb a mountain just to say they stood on top, And some men cross an ocean 'cause they don’t know when to stop. Me, I stared down IBM from a phone no bigger than my palm, And that old 400 took the command and never lost its calm.
(Verse 3) The user never knew it, and the help desk never cared, But somewhere in a server room, a blinking cursor stared. It whispered through the ether, in that green-on-black display: “Some fool just reset me from three inches away.”
(Final Chorus) I reset that password, Lord, I reset it clean, The most reckless act of courage that a terminal has seen. I didn’t do it for the glory, didn’t do it for the fame — I did it 'cause I’m stubborn, and the mountain had a name.
(Outro — spoken, low and slow) And if you ever doubt what one man and a small phone can do… Well, friend, somewhere out there is an AS/400 that remembers. And it still don’t trust Wi-Fi.
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I shot a fax machine in Reno just to watch it die.
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This has got Office Space (the film) written all over it.
Also, the obligatory Star Wars reference
“Fax Machine”, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Well, we can bring in up to date and raise the stakes:
I shot a B200 in Reno just to watch it die
I have an iPadPro 11". Also dislike the new windowing system and miss the old split-screen and slide-over. I use mine mostly as a “Remarkable” for handwritten notes. I found a screen protector that is not so hard to install, like the PaperLike, but it feels like paper. It is magnetic, so you can easily remove it, which is great for my other use case. I use it as a mini MacBook for when I want some computing power while running around town. I use an iMac 24" with a carrying case as a “luggable” for when I am traveling to another location by car, and then a MacBook Pro when I have to get on a plane.
Like, but not the same. There are only 3 tools in the domain. Maybe 4 if you count the watch. But oh well, I’m certainly bored with this.
To clarify a minor flaw in the analogy, the tools are apps, not the devices that contain them.
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JJW