Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ...
by Viliam1234 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @04:52PM
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My morning: Turn on the Mac. Username, password. Switch to insecure wifi. Microsoft username, password, phone call. Then for some reason Mac asks for the password again. Switch to secure wifi. Kerberos username, password. Microsoft username, password, phone call. Finally logged in!
Well, that's not the end of the story, because despite having a "single sign on", I actually have to log in to everything separately... using the same username and password. So I open Jira: username, password. Bitbucket: username, password. Jenkins: username, password. AWS... well, that's where it gets too complicated.
My first 15 minutes of work are spent logging in. On a good day, everything works predictably. On a bad day, something randomly breaks, and the easiest way is to restart the machine and do the 15 minutes again. If it fails the second time, I check if my colleagues are complaining, too, and then we wait for the tech support to tell us what broke recently.
Well, that's not the end of the story, because despite having a "single sign on", I actually have to log in to everything separately... using the same username and password. So I open Jira: username, password. Bitbucket: username, password. Jenkins: username, password. AWS... well, that's where it gets too complicated.
My first 15 minutes of work are spent logging in. On a good day, everything works predictably. On a bad day, something randomly breaks, and the easiest way is to restart the machine and do the 15 minutes again. If it fails the second time, I check if my colleagues are complaining, too, and then we wait for the tech support to tell us what broke recently.