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I have at times carried a Firefox Phone and a Pinephone, and deeply enjoyed asking work or other people who insisted I needed to download an app to do (whatever) "Where I can get your app for my phone? No, it's not an iPhone. No, it's not an Android phone either."

(Lately I've been using "It's a work phone, I'm not able to install apps on it, you'll need to run your app past our corporate IT and Security team.")

If your work requires you to have a phone, they should provide it to you. Call it your authentication brick.

They'd give me a conpany smartphone.

> My current employer has a little nub on my laptop that I touch

This is for authentication ?

It’s called a yubikey. The slim version barely protrudes from the usb port.

Phone call, sms, email, physical fob, 2nd person.