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I have two yubikeys lying around, how do I use them? I don't even have the correct hole in my laptop or in my phone to insert them

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It goes into the square hole.

This is a joke right? Can’t say I’ve ever heard of USB ports referred to as “holes”.

No I'm serious. I used to work on a PC and I had the correct hole, but I never figured out how to make yubikey useful and of course I couldn't use it with my phone. Maybe I'm missing something?

If it supports NFC, you can use that (mine do, I use them on my phone), otherwise you’d need an adapter, which is clunky but workable.

> Can’t say I’ve ever heard of USB ports referred to as “holes”.

I cannot be bother to remember every hole name. They're all USB anyway, the difference is that some are A, C, or Lightning, I bought a new MacBook and it has that magnet hole, what is that called? I'm not following.

Are you not around hardware that much? This is stuff people who work in tech deal with every day, it's too hard to keep track of the names of the three different ports that you use ubiquitously? When someone asks you what charging port you need, do you just say "big square one" or "the iphone one"? Do you then have to clarify "the old iphone one, not the new one"?

> This is stuff people who work in tech deal with every day

The stuff I deal with every day is centering divs

> it's too hard to keep track of the names of the three different ports

it's more than three ports.

Also USB A is not even square, it's a rectangle

Point still stands. Maybe it’s 5 if we are being charitable. Do you also call skillets “flat pan thing I cook with”?

You mean frying pan?

not being a native English speaker, I actually do this all the time

You can use an adapter (usb-a to usb-c). Or are they NFC capable? Some models are.

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