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You are setting up a thing – either a physical thing or especially a computer app – that the instructions do not name consistently. At one point in the instructions, it can be called a “special do-dad” and someplace else the same damn thing is called “secret device.”

I’ve spent the past two days setting up Ring security cameras and the authenticator for LastPass and I keep running into this completely unnecessary complication.

I’ve been using LastPass on my computer for a year and I wanted to use it on my phone. Setting up LastPass Authenticator on my phone had me pulling my hair out. On my phone I was asked to “enter the secret code.” What secret code? I didn’t know I had a secret code! I looked at all the screen shots on my computer I took of the original set-up procedure from a year ago and there was no damn secret code. I deleted the app and started over because I thought I must have missed the part where they gave me the code. Nope. Then I went to my computer and tried to set it up from there, and there on the screen was a QR code and the instruction, “scan the following QR code.” Turns out, “enter secret code” and “Go to your computer and scan the QR code” mean the same thing to the idiots who write this stuff.

And BTW I cannot get LastPass to work with the Pelican website.

End of rant